<p>I don’t want Dracula, Baby to get lost in the mix. It’s a less-racy Rocky Horror Picture Show. The kids loved it, though it doesn’t have the name draw of others. Campy, sexy nurse is a plum role, plus there’s the sweet ingenue. Great comedic parts for the guys and a funny bar scene for the larger cast: [Dracula</a> Baby](<a href=“http://www.guidetomusicaltheatre.com/shows_d/dracula_baby.htm]Dracula”>Dracula Baby - The Guide to Musical Theatre)</p>
<p>How about Carmen Jones? It’s an updated version of the opera “Carmen”. Can it be done with a mixed-race cast? The movie, if I remember correctly, was all-black.</p>
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<p>This reminds me of “flying”. Has anyone, besides our school, ever used those flying apparatuses? Nothing bad happned, but it was nerve-wracking. We literally had flying monkeys in the Wiz. The witches flew, too, if I remember right.</p>
<p>How about Honk! I saw a production of that a couple years ago and it was really cute, if a little long.</p>
<p>The kid’s school group did these plays while she attended…Enjoyed all. Godspell was a little slow…</p>
<p>Little Shop of Horrors
The Music Man
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Damn Yankees
Godspell
Fame</p>
<p>I guess it’s too soon for licensing Mama Mia, but that’s going to be popular I BETCHA someday soon.</p>
<p>There’s a neighboring district that gets first dibs on newly licensed shows (eg. in the first group to produce Phantom) so once Wicked and Mama Mia are availalable, they’ll get them first.</p>
<p>My kids have been in lots of musicals. Their favorite was “The Wiz”. Great music and a lot of fun. It’s not performed as often as some of the others.</p>
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<p>Oh, I see that the way I worded my D being severely injured during the rehearsal process for Oklahoma could be interpreted that she was injured IN rehearsals. Not the case, sorry to be confusing. She was in a serious car crash where she was severely injured and hospitalized and in a long recovery and this occurred during the period of time she was already rehearsing as Ado Annie in Oklahoma. She was out of everything that spring and so her understudy took over and she was no longer involved in the show (or at school). Thankfully, after a long while, she recovered and in time to start college that fall where she majored in musical theater and is now an Equity musical theater actor!</p>
<p>Ado Annie is such a fun part…but that was probably the least of your worries back then!</p>
<p>It was the least of the worries, very true indeed. But Ado Annie is a fun part and it was to be her last HS show (and she graduated as a junior). Her first day she was allowed out of a hospital bed, was opening night and we went to see it and I’m sure it was hard to watch, rather than be in it. Her best friend took over her part (happy for her though) and my D’s boyfriend played Will Parker, opposite Ado Annie. That summer, my D went on to do two musicals, Jekyll and Hyde (role of Lucy) and Bat Boy (role of Ruthie Taylor) and in both roles she was killed and died on stage. Oy.</p>
<p>PS…in a subsequent follow up visit to her surgeon (who put five screws in her hip), we brought a photo for his office of her in a kick line with her foot high in the air over her head, as Lucy in Jekyll and Hyde. Seeing her back in her element felt like she was given a new life (and had to sing in that show a song called “A New Life”)</p>
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<p>A happy ending :)</p>
<p>Susan, I remember so well when she had her accident. It’s hard to believe that she was still in high school then and now she’s a college grad and working actor. Where has the time gone?! :)</p>
<p>A few weeks ago, it was the anniversary of that accident (I just didn’t realize it) but my D sure did and she called me up asking me if I realized it had been five years ago that day. So, we feel blessed and I hate thinking back to those dark days (I know you can relate to dark days with a child). Today is so odd because this came up on this thread and ALSO came up in a phone call I had with a brand new client who told me she read back five years of posts on CC (to do with musical theater) and saw that accident and mentioned it to me on the phone and normally I rarely think about it. But yes, so many happy times since then…kid got another chance…others are not so lucky and I never ever forget that. We should catch up soon…</p>
<p>back to discussions of possible contemporary HS musicals…</p>