Decision
Having spoken with my colleagues, I can now announce that the spring show will not be a musical.
Now that that decision has been made, I turn my focus to the another great question: what are we doing for our spring show? My initial thought was Neil Simon's "Barefoot in the Park". It has fairly light humor and a relatively small cast. I thought it was hilarious, and more importantly, I'm very familiar with it. But in polling some of my students, the general vibe I'm getting is that they're not so jazzed about doing "Barefoot." "Why," I ask them. They always reply with copious amounts of hemming and hawing, to which I say, "Do you have a better idea?"
But in an attempt to find a show which will let me have more people involved, I've decided to browse through the meager selection of plays living on the shelves in my classroom in hopes of finding a gem which: 1) is funny; 2) is fairly simple; 3) has a cast of 8-10 (I might double cast the bigger leads).
So, for the next few days, I'm reading plays. I'm currently on Joseph Kesselring's "Arsenic and Old Lace." It's a riot!
3 comments:
btw, funniest play i've read in a long while that there is no way in heck you can do because no one would laugh: The Importance of Being Earnest.
and it's yours. i'll bring it home this weekend.
lil' brudder
Dude, I was looking all over for that! I had to get a new copy to take to Districts with us. Oh well. Anyway, yeah, that is a really funny play, but no one would get it. Even my good kids didn't get some of the jokes. It kind of sucks that we have to accommodate the youth/stupidity of our audience. Oh well, such is life.
I love Arsenic.
I watched it at an outdoor, low-budget theater in Ohio one summer and I don't remember much about it other than laughing a lot.
And I totally think if you wanted to do Barefoot, you could pull the "I'm the teacher" card and they could deal with it. ;-)
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