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6 Aug

The Most Performed Musicals and Plays of 2019-2020
Results of the annual EdTA school play survey of the 2019-2020 American school year.

#1 MUSICAL - THE ADDAMS FAMILY

#1 FULL LENGTH PLAY - CLUE

#1 SHORT PLAY - CHECK PLEASE

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Here is the list of TOP TEN SHORT PLAYS with links to available FREE READS
1. Check Please (Jonathan Rand)
2. 10 Ways to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse (Don Zolidis)
3. Tracks (Peter Tarsi)
4. (tie.) Check Please: Take 2 (Jonathan Rand)
4. (tie.) The Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon (Don Zolidis)
6. (tie.) Law & Order: Fairy Tale Unit (Jonathan Rand)
6. (tie.) The Internet Is Distract -- Oh Look a Kitten (Ian McWethy)
9. Our Place (Terry Wayne Gabbard)
10. The Lottery (Brainerd Duffield, Shirley Jackson)

TOP TEN FULL LENGTH PLAYS
1. Clue (Jonathan Lynn, Sandy Rustin, Hunter Foster, Eric Price) FREE READ LINK
2. Almost, Maine (John Cariani)
3. A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare)
4. Peter and the Starcatcher (Wayne Barker, Rick Elice)
5. Radium Girls (D.W. Gregory)
6. 12 Angry Jurors (Sherman L. Sergel, Reginald Rose)
7. She Kills Monsters (Qui Nguyen)
8. Puffs, Or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic (Matt Cox)
9. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Simon Stephens, Mark Haddon)
10. Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare)

TOP TEN MUSICALS
1. The Addams Family (Andrew Lippa, Marshall Brickman, Rick Elice) FREE READ LINK
2. Mamma Mia! (Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, Catherine Johnson)
3. Beauty and the Beast (Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, Tim Rice, Linda Woolverton)
4. Into the Woods (Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine)
5. The Little Mermaid (Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, Glenn Slater, Doug Wright)
6. Seussical (Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty, Eric Idle)
7. (tie.) Little Shop of Horrors (Howard Ashman, Alan Menken)
7. (tie.) Matilda (Dennis Kelly, Tim Minchin)
9. The Wizard of Oz (various)
10. Cinderella (Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Douglas Carter Beane)



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