when oh when will producers release some of their bigger budget fun musicals - we are so bored of going over and over the same old musicals.
We have been lucky enough to do Witches of Eastwick (not popular enough with Joe Public) and are currently rehearsing for The Producers which we hope will bring in some audience.
But then we are back to choosing from Oklahoma!/Calamity Jane and Fiddler on the roof.

We need some new blood - any suggestions???

(Our committee will not entertain the suggestion of Sondheim etc at teh main theatre as they say it will not sell enough tickets...they may well be right!!)
We do do these as smaller productions at our own 150 seater theatre)

Aims

Dear Aims,

We haven't got any ex-West End shows in our catalogue yet, but we do have an ex-New Zealand 'West End' show available which is catching on here now ...

Rush!
This powerful musical tells the moving story of immigrant gold miners and how their quest for instant fortune brings heartache, hope and (eventually) happiness.. With a strong storyline and a modern-style score, 'Rush, the musical' fizzes with raw emotion and demands the resources of a professional, semi-pro or large amateur group to be successful.

... and also available that's different is ...

Pride And Prejudice
The story told in Pride And Prejudice of the Bennet family, centred as it is on the relationship between the proud aristocrat Fitzwilliam Darcy and the high-spirited Elizabeth Bennet, is one of the most enduringly popular novels of all time and has had a far-reaching influence on all romantic fiction right up to the present day. This musical disappoints neither Austen fans nor musical aficianados.

... plus some musical theatre versions of 'The Pirates Of Penzance' and 'The Mikado', or if your group has a surplus of 'mature ladies', how about ...

Act Your Age
A musical farce specially written for amateur musical groups with largely female memberships. A therapy clinic for celebrities, down on its luck with no celebrities and no staff, is forced to take in a bunch of old folks as their Home has become uninhabitable. A mystery celebrity phones to check in, and it's all hands to the pumps to try and convince her and her entourage that the place is well run and managed; when in fact it's the old folk who are gearing up to administer their own bizarre range of alternative therapies.

We did Jekyll and Hyde this year and sold it out completely, but our theatre is pretty small. the Wedding Singer is newly out. Thoroughly Modern Millie is good fun ( don't look at the film, that's awful!)

Reasonably new, vastly fun & not famous at all (not for the lack of trying tho'):
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-Jim

We will have a video of our new musical A Song for Europe available to peruse in early July, and if we have been successful with the initial run, at least it will be a known commodity and might fill your theatre.

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good luck

We are looking at "The Wedding Singer" right now. The script looks funny; a lot depends on how it fits with our musicians. I'm not a fan of J&H but it does get moderate or good sized audiences. I think T.M.Millie works well if it's done with tongue in cheek. If you take it seriously like Oklahoma you'd surely go mad.

Look at "Honk!" which is ten years old and still criminally under-appreciated.

Totally agree that you need to send TMM up - it does at least have some girl parts in it too for a change! I do think it works best if you have native Chinese speakers for Mrs Meers slaves too. Our Jekyll turned out to be very powerful and I liked it better than I expected to. Still a bit dark for my taste though