Shows with only 2-3 male singers with many female singers?
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Does anyone have some good suggestions for musicals with only a few male singing roles (2-3) with many female singing roles? This seems to be our typical search for our annual fall musical at my high school.
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Smile the musical was based on the movie of the same name, music and lyrics by Marvin Hamlisch and Howard Ashman. It was a flop on Broadway (and there was never a Broadway cast recording) but it's really more geared toward high school and community theater, IMO. Samuel French has the rights, not MTI. Our cast was about 25 or so. You need enough girls to play the beauty pageant contestants, the emcee needs to be a man/boy, there's the couple who runs the pageant and their son, and other characters which can be either male or female. It's rather dated towards the 80's as well, so we changed some of the lyrics to make it current.
You can really work with this play, we changed the singers, and only used 3 boys to sing--the teacher, corey and michael, the geek was actually played by a girl, we used girls for the opening song, assembly song and prom mix, and even used backup singers to help out with the singing-so a person started the song and then the backup singers finished it.
MILLIE is a good show. ANYTHING GOES has lots of parts for females. And, you can switch around some of the support parts to females. I just did BACK TO THE 80's and that's not a good choice for you. I'm doing GODSPELL for some of the same reasons, however, I'm giving it a face lift and bringing into modern day; like the revival that was suppose to be on broadway last year.