Take this text’s title with a grain of salt — we’d by no means need to deliberately spoil any play or musical! We’re simply going to have a little bit enjoyable with present titles by including, eradicating, and altering letters and phrases to make goofy new titles.
While this sport could be loads of enjoyable, it additionally could be difficult. For starters, your college students could or could not have earlier data of play or musical titles. If it’s the latter, it would be best to begin by having the group brainstorm as many present titles as they will consider, or offering college students an inventory of play and/or musical titles. (If you want some premade lists, we’ve bought performs and musicals for Pride, creepy and spooky performs and musicals, and greater than 200 performs in our personal Theatrefolk play catalogue to peruse.
While college students purpose to provide you with humorous, inventive new present titles, they’ll have to make sure that the modifications make sense grammatically. It’s additionally simple to get slowed down in making an attempt to be tremendous witty. With a lower-stakes sport like this, it’s higher to purpose for amount of responses over high quality. Let the humorous movement!
Start by having college students provide you with as many new present titles as doable, utilizing a number of of the prompts under. For a further problem, for the primary 4 prompts, have college students provide you with an evidence of the brand new plot of the present utilizing components of the unique plot.
You can have college students full this individually, in pairs or small teams, or as a full class. It’s an incredible bell work project, or a option to begin devising a brand new play or musical. Come up with a title after which in subsequent lessons, create character profiles and begin creating new scenes. Let’s dive in!
Ruin a Play Prompts
1. Ruin a play or musical by altering one letter of the title. For instance: “In the Weights,” “Show Goat,” “A Little Fight Music,” or “Bean Girls.” Some present titles are conducive to multiple change — think about “Glove Never Dies” or “Love Never Pies.”
2. Ruin a play or musical by including a phrase to the title. For instance: “The Burger King & I,” “Peter Pancakes,” or “Rock of the Stone Ages.” If solely including one phrase is just too troublesome, college students can embody an article, preposition, or conjunction to make the title movement higher and to make sure grammatical accuracy.
3. Ruin a play or musical by altering one phrase of the title to a very completely different phrase. The phrase have to be one single phrase agreed upon by the entire class. For instance: “The Phantom of the Bathroom,” “Romeo & Bathroom,” “Lord of the Bathrooms,” or “Arsenic & Old Bathrooms.”
4. Ruin a play or musical by including “… of DOOM!” to the title. For instance: “Our Town… of DOOM!” “Waiting for Godot… of DOOM!” or “Smokey Joe’s Café… of DOOM!” Does this addition make the brand new present appear comedic or scary? Why?
5, Ruin a play or musical by describing it badly. How are you able to describe a play with a one-sentence abstract? Here are some examples:
- “A monster saves a princess from marrying a tiny man” for Shrek the Musical
- “The plant-based version of Sweeney Todd” for Little Shop of Horrors
- “Woman is rendered mute to meet her crush but discovers appreciation for shoes and forks” for The Little Mermaid
- “It’s literally a bunch of felines singing” for Cats
- “Remember the cats? Same concept, but instead of cats it’s toy trains” for *Starlight Express *
- “Misshapen French man tries to search out real love” (This may very well be The Phantom of the Opera… or Beauty and the Beast… or The Hunchback of Notre Dame!)
How many new, humorous titles will your college students provide you with?
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