Ah -- we tended to pick plays for the opposite reason, with an aim to providing parts for as many members of the amateur dramatic group as possible (and accomodating the large supply of middle-aged women, who were much stronger performers than the teenage offspring who nominally could have supplied juvenile leads!)

I remember we once embarked upon "The Man Who Came To Dinner" without realising that this required the entire thing to be done in American accents -- the vowels were slipping like mad by the second half :-p