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RE: Help with Spelling Bee

Posted By Andrew Fallu 09-15-2019 13:42
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I'm getting on board with the ensemble playing the extra parts, my biggest hesitation comes with The I Love You Song. The potential Ronas and Mitches I think I'll get could handle that song very nicely, but I on't think anyone who would potentially end up ensemble could handle it. I know I could always ...

RE: Help with Spelling Bee

Posted By Andrew Fallu 09-15-2019 13:38
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That's awesome! I'm sure the students lost it when they realized who she was. We had a similar experience when we did Charlie Brown five years ago, and a former cast member of that show ended up at on of our performances somehow. Small world!  Out of curiosity, how big was your ensemble? Did they ...

RE: Help with Spelling Bee

Posted By Andrew Fallu 09-15-2019 13:36
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It has been so nice to hear other people who do this on the regular! A post I made in the Musical Theater subreddit garnered a lot of student responses in support of double casting, saying it was the norm at their school. Do you double cast ensemble as well? I am still trying to think through what do ...

Help with Spelling Bee

Posted By Andrew Fallu 09-13-2019 14:17
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Hi! This year for the musical I was looking to do a smaller show, such as 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and potentially double cast the whole thing and put up four shows instead of three (each cast getting two performances). Only issue is....at the interest meeting I held today I pulled ...

Tuck Everlasting (musical)

Posted By Andrew Fallu 03-11-2019 10:09
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Hi all! This community has been so helpful in picking my last two musicals that I am turning to the collective groupthink yet again.  We just wrapped up an incredibly successful production of The Drowsy Chaperone, and a group of my music teacher friends immediately suggested Tuck Everlasting as the ...

Two Drowsy Chaperone Questions

Posted By Andrew Fallu 07-29-2018 15:16
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Hi all again, I am leaning towards Drowsy Chaperone for my high school's musical this year. I had two questions for those who have done it before now that I've seen it multiple times and read through it a bunch: 1. What have you done with the chorus? I'm expecting as a possible "high" number somewhere ...

RE: The Drowsy Chaperone vs. Urinetown

Posted By Andrew Fallu 03-18-2018 23:30
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That is an angle I didn't even consider, especially given the current state of intense activism in students across the country today. Thank you for bringing that up! ------------------------------ Andrew Fallu ------------------------------

RE: The Drowsy Chaperone vs. Urinetown

Posted By Andrew Fallu 03-18-2018 23:28
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This was my main concern, as I am sure it is the main concern of many other directors. And like yourself, the advice I keep getting is to just lean into it as much as possible and make sure you play it in a way that highlights the fact it is poking fun at the past, NOT stating it as some sort of fact. ...

The Drowsy Chaperone vs. Urinetown

Posted By Andrew Fallu 03-09-2018 11:54
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​Hi all, We just closed a massively successful production of The Wedding Singer at my small private school (thanks to people who responded to a thread about it last year) and I'm already looking ahead. I think I've narrowed down my field to the two shows mentioned in the subject line-I was in Urinetown ...

The Wedding Singer School Appropriateness

Posted By Andrew Fallu 04-27-2017 09:36
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Hi! I am the music teacher for a small private school on Long Island, grades 1-12. Part of my job has been the creation of a musical theater program in the high school, now three full years in existence. We have done so far You're A Good Man Charlie Brown, Little Shop of Horrors, and In the Heights.  ...