Posted by aces25 2012-11-22 15:05:35
Hi there,
Have you ever seen productions of shows that are framed like a travelling show/trunk show/circus/vaudeville style? Shows framed like a travelling show?
Posted by tazber 2012-11-22 15:07:52
Barnum
Hard Times
Shows framed like a travelling show?
Posted by darquegk 2012-11-22 15:09:07
The original production of Pippin, and many of the ones after, have framed their production as a traveling circus.
Reefer Madness (both the musical and the movie musical) are a dramatization within a propaganda lecture.
The Rocky Horror Show is especially meta- the opening and closing number frame the story (either movie or play) as being a fictional B-movie, but the story itself is a reenactment of an academic's case study (a throwback to sci-fi legend H.P. Lovecraft).
Shows framed like a travelling show?
Posted by get-it-right 2012-11-22 15:45:45
Leap of Faith
Shows framed like a travelling show?
Posted by bwayphreak234 2012-11-22 15:48:26
Annie Get Your Gun revival
Shows framed like a travelling show?
Posted by ReggieonBway 2012-11-22 15:51:00
Brother Russia, an are we counting Drood?
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Posted by MattDe 2012-11-22 16:52:20
Isn't Wicked supposed to be a traveling show and aren't the witches supposed to be puppets or something
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Posted by bwayphreak234 2012-11-22 19:16:01
^ In the novel, yes. The musical kinda took that concept, but didn't really execute it completely so I'm not sure what they were going for.
Shows framed like a travelling show?
Posted by chewy5000 2012-11-22 19:22:58
Kiss Me Kate
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Posted by MattDe 2012-11-22 19:38:48
kiss me kate yes In regards to wicked yes okay
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Posted by MattDe 2012-11-22 19:43:16
Cabaret is obvious well the old one. The doesn't use the travel element but has some ideas. The Scottsboro Boys. I could stretch it and say Curtains to some extent.
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Posted by MattDe 2012-11-22 19:47:33
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Posted by justoldbill 2012-11-22 23:25:36
CARNIVAL
ROADSIDE
Shows framed like a travelling show?
Posted by CATSNYrevival 2012-11-22 23:34:57
The Fantasticks.
Shows framed like a travelling show?
Posted by carousel94 2012-11-23 00:21:11
I wanna say Prince's Candide. The opera house presentation and the 97 revival, perhaps the 73 revival too, I know it had a circus like pageant wagon atmosphere.
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Posted by g.d.e.l.g.i. 2012-11-23 00:29:53
I'm surprised no one cited the '99 Annie Get Your Gun yet.
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Posted by AEA AGMA SM 2012-11-23 00:35:57
"I'm surprised no one cited the '99 Annie Get Your Gun yet."
Except for when bwayphreak did a few responses into the thread.
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Posted by son_of_a_gunn_25 2012-11-23 01:20:07
Sweeney Todd.
Shows framed like a travelling show?
Posted by Wilmingtom 2012-11-23 10:37:04
The Boy Friend.
Shows framed like a travelling show?
Posted by Someone in a Tree2 2012-11-23 10:54:57
SHOWBOAT
MAN OF LA MANCHA (as a sort of captive improv troupe)
ZORBA (bouzouki taverna troupe)
HAIR (ragtag hippy tribe)
GODSPELL(ragtag hippy tribe)
GRIND (vaudeville burlesque company)
THE WILL ROGERS FOLLIES
ASSASSINS (carnival midway)
STEEL PIER
SIDE SHOW
THE GLORIOUS ONES (renaissance acting troupe)
and apparently CHAPLIN (have only seen preview video)
Sure, most of these aren't TRAVELING troupes, but vaudeville/circus troupes just the same.
Shows framed like a travelling show?
Posted by ljay889 2012-11-23 11:19:11
ROAD SHOW.
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Posted by Jon 2012-11-23 11:48:19
Yes, in Harold Prince's "Opera House" version of Candide, Voltaire's traveling troupe of actors arrive during the overture.
In the 1973 "environemental" production, the show opens with Voltaire sleeping at his desk in a nightshirt.
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Posted by little_sally 2012-11-23 11:52:07
Isn't LaChiusa's The Wild Party presented as vaudeville?
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Posted by henrikegerman 2012-11-23 12:14:48
Drood. Although set in a music hall, the Chairman says the company is going on the road - I believe to Brighton - soon.
Carnival.
Annie Get Your Gun.
Shows framed like a travelling show?
Posted by SNAFU 2012-11-23 12:45:30
Scottsboro Boys
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Posted by elphaba.scares.me 2012-11-24 12:31:00
Superstar has been done this way.
Mendes production of Cabaret
The occasional production of Gypsy (seen this regionally)
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Posted by trentsketch 2012-11-24 12:38:32
Brooklyn did this. They were street performers playing for change in NYC. Hedwig and the Angry Inch was supposed to feel like a low rent stop on a nationwide tour.
Yes, Little_Sally, La Chiusa's Wild Party was presented as Vaudeville sketches, with signs announcing the next act and everything.
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Posted by OperaBwayLover 2012-11-24 13:49:13
Would Chicago count? The whole show is set up like a series of vaudeville acts.
And I might be wrong, but I always considered 42nd Street to be a borderline traveling show, especially with the end of Act I and how the audience becomes the 'Pretty Lady audience' thanks to Julian Marsh's announcement.
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Posted by TonyVincent 2012-11-24 14:22:27
42ND STREET follows a production through its out of town tryout, and includes the song "Getting Out of Town."
