Casting Challenge: Pick your favorite musical and play and cast the leads

Question #3 in our series, getting ready for voting for the 2010 Audience Choice Awards.  (In case you haven’t been following along, #1 is here, and #2 is here.)

This fun exercise was dreamed up by Steven McKnight:

Casting Challenge:  Pick your favorite musical and play and cast the leads.

It can be from any play or musical, ever done anywhere, but if you want to choose one from last season, here’s the list:

[Title of Show]
26 Miles
39 steps
4.48 Psychosis
700 Sundays
A Christmas Carol
A Comedy of Errors…at Colonus?
A Flea in Her Ear
A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur
A Man of No Importance
A Piece of My Heart
A Streetcar Named Desire
Adding Machine: A Musical
Adventures of Uncle Rabbit (Las Aventures de Tio Conejo)
Aida
Ain’t Misbehavin’
Always, Patsy Cline
Amazons and Their Men
American Buffalo
Andy Warhol:Good for the Jews?
Angels in America, Part I
Angels in America, Part II
Annie
Antony & Cleopatra
Around the World in 80 Days
As You Like It
August: Osage County
Avenue Q
Barrio Grrl!
Beauty of the Father
Black Nativity
Black Pearl Sings
Blood, Sweat & Fears II
Burn Your Bookes
Bus Stop
By the Bogs of Cats
Call Mr.Robeson
Camelot
Camille
Carrie Potter and the New Moon Prom
Chess
Chicks
Christmas Twist
Chumbale
Clybourne Park
Completely Hollywood (abridged)
Constant State of Panic
Cosi fan Tutte Goes Hollywood
Courage
Da
Dancing at Lughnasa
Dear Sara Jane
Dirty Blonde
Disco Pigs
Disney’s Mulan
Dracula
Dracula – family musical
Dublin Carol
Duke Ellington’s Sophisticated Ladies
Eclipsed
El Bola
El retablillo de Don Cristóbal
Every Young Woman’s Desire
Evil Dead
Ferdinand the Bull
Fiddler on the Roof
First you Dream
Fool at the Circus
Forever Plaid
Full Circle
Galumpha’s The Human Jungle Gym
Game of Love and Chance
Gdirl from Gdansk
Go, Dog. Go!
Grease
Great One Man Commedia Epic
Gretty Good Time
Gruesome Playground Injuries
Hairspray
Hamlet (Folger)
Hamlet (Chesapeake Shakespeare)
Hamlet (Washington National Opera)
Harvey
Heartstrings
Helen of Sparta
Henry V
High Fidelity: A Musical
House of Yes
House with Two Doors
How I Became a Pirate
Humble Boy
Hysteria
I Am My Own Wife
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
If You Give a Pig a Pancake
In Darfur
In the Goldfish Bowl
In the Red & Brown Water-Bro/Sister Plays
Jersey Boys
Johnny Meister
Julius Caesar
Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical
Laughing Daughter
Let There Be Love
Lie With Me
Little Shop of Horrors
Look Out Below
Lord Saville’s Crime
Lost in Yonkers
Lucido/Lucid
Lulu
Lypsinka Legends
Mahalia
Mary Poppins
Mauritius
Measure for Measure
Metamorphosis
Mikveh
Mommy Queerest

Mondo Andronicus
Moonlight
Mrs. Warren’s Profession
Much Ado About Nothing (Folger)
Much Ado About Nothing (Chesapeake Shakespeare)
Musical of Musicals (the revival at MetroStage)
My Name is Asher Lev
My Way: Tribute to Sinatra
Naked Boys Singing!
New Jerusalem
Night Must Fall
Nights at the Opera: Golden Age
Nights at the Opera: Lisbon Traviata
Nights at the Opera: Master Class
Noises Off
Of Mice and Men
Oleanna
Oliver
On the Verge, or The Geography of Yearning
One Destiny
One Man Lord of the Rings
Orestes, A Tragic Romp
Othello
Paige in Full
Passing Strange
Perez Hilton Saves the Universe
Permanent Collection
Peter & the Wolf
Phedre
Pirates! A Boy at Sea
Planet Claire
Poe Double Feature
Porgy and Bess
Port Authority
Prisoner of Zenda
Public Enemy
Puss in Boots
R. Buckminster Fuller
Reasons to Be Pretty
Rent (Keegan Theatre)
Richard II
Santaland Diaries
Savannah Disputation
Search for Gabriela
Serenading Louie
Shadowboxer
Show Boat
Stand Up! Sit Down The Greensboro sit–ins
Sixty Miles to Silver Lake
Some Girls
Son of a Standup Comedian
Souvenir
Stalag 17
Stange Bedfellows
Stella Morgan
Stick Fly
Striking 12
Suburban Motel
suicide.chat.room
Summer at Nohant
Sweeney Todd (Toby’s Dinner Theatre)
Sweeney Todd (Signature Theatre)
Sycamore Trees
Sylvia
Tale of the Fisherman
Talk Radio
Teddy Roosevelt & the Ghostly Mistletoe
That Face
The Alchemist
The Atheist
The Best of Friends
The Constellation
The Dancing Princesses
The Fantasticks (Arena Stage)
The Fantasticks  (Infinity Theatre)
The Four of Us
The Fugitives
The Glass Menagerie
The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?
The Graduate
The Horrors of Online Dating
The Last 5 Years
The Last Cargo Cult
The Liar
The Light in the Piazza
The Little Engine That Could
The Mikado
The Miser
The New Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley
The Old Settler
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Quality of Life
The Ramayana
The Red Balloon
The Rivalry
The Seven Ages of Mime
The Snow Queen
The Solid Gold Cadillac
The Taming of the Shrew  (Shakespeare’s Free for All)
The Trip to Bountiful
The Zoo Story
There are Little Kingdoms
Three Days of Rain
Three Fantasias
Three Sisters
Thurgood
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
Treadwell: Bright and Dark
Treemonisha
Triumph of Love
Trumpery
Tyler Perry – Laugh to keep from Crying
Upright Citizen’s Brigade
Wam! (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!
White Christmas
Why’d Ya Make Me Wear This Joe?
Will Success Spoil Rock Hudson?
Wittenberg
Young Frankenstein
Yours, Isabel
Zarzuela
Zelda at the Oasis
Zero Hour

We hope you will leave your comments below.

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Our New Audience Choice Voting Procedures

DC Theatre Scene’s Audience Choice Awards, now in its fourth year, are the only awards covering the Washington area’s professional theatrical season which allow audiences to make the final decision, based on nominations by the DCTS writers and staff. The 16 DCTS nominators have seen 788 performances of this season’s 239 eligible productions.

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