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Give your gut impulse answer: Looking for scenes from musicals for classroom scene study. Ideal are scenes that are a bit meaty (not necessarily heavy or anything--just not the "this is just filler to get us to the next song" type of scene), involve a lot of people (20 would be great!--not everyone needs to have a speaking part), be appropriate for middle school, and lead into a song. I've got some ideas I'm parsing, but I thought I'd throw it out to the group on the chances that someone might have the perfect scene sitting there right on the top of their brain. Thanks.

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Ryan Moore
Theatre Teacher and Forensics Coach
Royal Oak MI
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Newsies has a few, like Act 1 Scene 5, which leads in to "The World Will Know" or Act 1, Scene 8 into  "Seize the Day." These would be especially good for middle school students.

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Elana Kepner
Theatre Instructor
The Oakwood School
Greenville NC
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Original Message:
Sent: 11-11-2019 12:53
From: Ryan Moore
Subject: Looking for scenes from musicals for scene study

Give your gut impulse answer: Looking for scenes from musicals for classroom scene study. Ideal are scenes that are a bit meaty (not necessarily heavy or anything--just not the "this is just filler to get us to the next song" type of scene), involve a lot of people (20 would be great!--not everyone needs to have a speaking part), be appropriate for middle school, and lead into a song. I've got some ideas I'm parsing, but I thought I'd throw it out to the group on the chances that someone might have the perfect scene sitting there right on the top of their brain. Thanks.

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Ryan Moore
Theatre Teacher and Forensics Coach
Royal Oak MI
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Urinetown - the scenes going into Privilege to Pee, Look to the Sky, or Act I Finale. Aside from the title, there's nothing inappropriate in the scenes.

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Ken Buswell
Drama Teacher
Peachtree City, GA
http://mcintoshtheater.org/

Theater kills ignorance
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Original Message:
Sent: 11-11-2019 12:53
From: Ryan Moore
Subject: Looking for scenes from musicals for scene study

Give your gut impulse answer: Looking for scenes from musicals for classroom scene study. Ideal are scenes that are a bit meaty (not necessarily heavy or anything--just not the "this is just filler to get us to the next song" type of scene), involve a lot of people (20 would be great!--not everyone needs to have a speaking part), be appropriate for middle school, and lead into a song. I've got some ideas I'm parsing, but I thought I'd throw it out to the group on the chances that someone might have the perfect scene sitting there right on the top of their brain. Thanks.

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Ryan Moore
Theatre Teacher and Forensics Coach
Royal Oak MI
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"Tradition" beginning in "Fiddler"; Library scene from "Music Man";

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Ellen Di Filippo
Tracy CA
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Original Message:
Sent: 11-11-2019 12:53
From: Ryan Moore
Subject: Looking for scenes from musicals for scene study

Give your gut impulse answer: Looking for scenes from musicals for classroom scene study. Ideal are scenes that are a bit meaty (not necessarily heavy or anything--just not the "this is just filler to get us to the next song" type of scene), involve a lot of people (20 would be great!--not everyone needs to have a speaking part), be appropriate for middle school, and lead into a song. I've got some ideas I'm parsing, but I thought I'd throw it out to the group on the chances that someone might have the perfect scene sitting there right on the top of their brain. Thanks.

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Ryan Moore
Theatre Teacher and Forensics Coach
Royal Oak MI
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