Shows framed like a travelling show?

[aces25]

Hi there,
Have you ever seen productions of shows that are framed like a travelling show/trunk show/circus/vaudeville style?

[tazber]

Barnum
Hard Times

[darquegk]

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).

[get-it-right]

Leap of Faith

[bwayphreak234]

Annie Get Your Gun revival

[ReggieonBway]

Brother Russia, an are we counting Drood?

[MattDe]

Isn't Wicked supposed to be a traveling show and aren't the witches supposed to be puppets or something

[bwayphreak234]

^ 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.

[chewy5000]

Kiss Me Kate

[MattDe]

kiss me kate yes In regards to wicked yes okay

[MattDe]

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.

[MattDe]

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[justoldbill]

CARNIVAL
ROADSIDE

[CATSNYrevival]

The Fantasticks.

[carousel94]

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.

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

I'm surprised no one cited the '99 Annie Get Your Gun yet.

[AEA AGMA SM]

"I'm surprised no one cited the '99 Annie Get Your Gun yet."

Except for when bwayphreak did a few responses into the thread.

[son_of_a_gunn_25]

Sweeney Todd.

[Wilmingtom]

The Boy Friend.

[Someone in a Tree2]

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.

[ljay889]

ROAD SHOW.

[Jon]

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.

[little_sally]

Isn't LaChiusa's The Wild Party presented as vaudeville?

[henrikegerman]

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.

[SNAFU]

Scottsboro Boys

[elphaba.scares.me]

Superstar has been done this way.
Mendes production of Cabaret
The occasional production of Gypsy (seen this regionally)