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5 Dream Roles
rmposey
Stand-by Joined: 5/13/04
#50re: 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 5/2/05 at 12:28pm
Carlotta - Phantom
Kate - Avenue Q
Tracy - Hairspray
Nadia - Bare
Cathy - Last Five Years
I should have eaten the saw and used the cake to bludgeon my way out - Alfred Hitchcock
#51re: 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 5/2/05 at 1:38pm
Sweeney Todd - Sweeney Todd (I am going to win a Tony for this role or die trying!)
Robert - Company
Phantom - Phantom of the Opera
George - Sunday in the Park with George
Albin - La Cage
Balladeer/Guiteau/Zangara - Assassins
(Tie)
<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
DefyGravity23
Stand-by Joined: 3/28/05
#52re: 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 5/2/05 at 5:10pm
Amneris - "Aida"
Lucy - "Jekyll & Hyde"
Jo March - "Little Women"
Nessa or Elphaba - "Wicked"
Christine - "Phantom of the Opera"
Not that any of these would ever happen...but hey, they're "dream roles."
Depaultheatrekid
Stand-by Joined: 1/6/05
#53re: 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 5/3/05 at 2:07pm
The Leading Player - Pippin
Fiyero - Wicked
Judas - Jesus Christ Superstar
Max Bialystock - The Producers
James Thunder Early - Dreamgirls
#54re: 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 5/3/05 at 2:10pm
Fanny Brice (Funny Girl)
Narrator (Joseph)
Jane Eyre (guess which show?)
Adelaide (Guys and Dolls)
and
Mrs Walker (Tommy)
There's always room for pathos - and jazz hands.
#55re: 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 5/3/05 at 2:18pm
Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard
Tommy Tune's character in My One And Only
The Wizard in Wicked
Amos in Chicago
and like someone else said:
Mama Rose, if I were a girl!
"Curse you, Lady Glyde!"
holdmetouchme
Chorus Member Joined: 5/3/05
#56re: 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 5/3/05 at 4:01pm
Thernadier - Les Miz
Applegate - Damn Yankees
Tateh - Ragtime
Bialystock - The Producers
Doolittle - My Fair Lady
Perhaps it was not a dream.
Chorus Member Joined: 12/31/69
#57re: 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 5/3/05 at 4:16pm
Norma Desmond is my dream role and I dont care if I am a guy. I still would do it and I would have a blast doing it.
#58re: 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 5/3/05 at 6:24pm
1. Elphaba - WICKED
2. Eponine - Les Mis
3. Maureen - RENT
4. Christine - Phantom
5. Glinda - WICKED
"There are times when were dirt broke, and hungry and freezing and I ask myself why the hell am I still living here?...And then they call!" ~ Mark Cohen RENT movie
#59re: 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 5/3/05 at 7:03pm
Maureen- RENT
Jo March - Little Women
Aldonza - Man of La MAncha
Cinderella- Cinderella
Elphaba - Wicked
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
DTBG2
Featured Actor Joined: 3/15/05
#60re: 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 5/3/05 at 7:17pm
Benny - RENT
The Phantom - The Phantom of the Opera
Fiyero - WICKED
Boq - WICKED
Jean Valjean - Les Miserables
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#61re: 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 5/3/05 at 7:24pm
Sweeney Todd - Sweeney Todd
Bobby - Company
Tevye - Fiddler on the Roof
Marvin - Falsettos/Falsettoland/In Trousers
Henrik - A Little Night Music
(I would've said The Baker - Into the Woods. But I'm just finishing up playing it this weekend!!)
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
bwayballerina
Broadway Star Joined: 11/14/04
#62re: 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 5/3/05 at 7:27pm
Mary Poppins- Mary Poppins
Mrs. Lovett (or Beggar Woman)- Sweeney Todd
Maria or Anita- West Side Story
Audrey- Little Shop of Horrors
And I haven't seen Cabaret, but Sally Bowles sounds like an awesome part to play. Though I wouldn't mind just being a Kit Kat girl either.
#63re: 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 5/3/05 at 7:35pm
-Sally Bowles (Cabaret)
-Mama Rose (Gypsy)
-Mame (Mame)
-Dorothy Brock (42nd Street)
-Norma Desmond (Sunset Boulevard)
Erm...yeah. It's my goal in life to be a broad. Whee.
Not today, Geraldine.
#64 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 5/3/05 at 7:37pm
Elphaba - Wicked
Kate - Avenue Q
Amneris - Aida
Maureen - Rent
Mimi - Rent
" I don't cause commotions, I am one."
playbill_signer_05
Leading Actor Joined: 1/23/05
#65 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 5/3/05 at 7:47pm
I would play (not in order)...
1. Audrey from Little Shop
2. Mimi from Rent - wow I wish I could dance! lol
3. Maureen from Rent
4. Magenta from the Rocky Horror Picture Show
5. Elphaba from Wicked
(Mark from Rent too... if I were a guy)
#66 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 5/3/05 at 8:33pm
1) Mimi *or Maureen* in Rent
2) Elphaba in Wicked
3) Kate Monster in Avenue Q
4) Rose *or Louise* in Gypsy
5) Penny *or Tracy* in Hairspray
However, I will gladly take ANY part on Broadway! =D
A most ingenious paradox.
EternalJayJay
Chorus Member Joined: 3/23/05
#67 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 5/3/05 at 9:28pm
Finch -- "How to Succeed..."
Nathan -- "Guys and Dolls"
Louie -- "Lost in Yonkers"
Eugene -- "Brighton Beach Memoirs"/"Biloxi Blues"/"Broadway Bound"
Chris -- "All My Sons"
mikewood
Broadway Star Joined: 4/7/05
#68 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 5/5/05 at 12:45pm
Real life (a life that doesn't involve singing which I can't do):
Chris in All My Sons
Brick in Cat on Hot Tin Roof
Bottom/Pyramus in A Midsummer Night's Dream
Benedict in Much Ado About Nothing
Eddie in A View from the Bridge
Fantasy world (in which I can sing)
Val Jean in Les Mis
Javert in Les Mis
Don Quixote in The Man from Lamancha
The Coward Lion in the Wizard of OZ
Charlie Brown in You're a Good man Charlie Brown
BLAH BLAH BLAH
QHDramaQueen
Stand-by Joined: 2/3/05
#69 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 5/5/05 at 2:10pm
Musicals:
1) Elphaba-Wicked
2) Mama Rose- Gypsy
3) Mrs. Lovette- Sweeny Todd
4) Joanne- Company
5) Witch- Into The Woods
If I crossed dressed and used lots of duck tape:
1) Sweeny- Sweeny Todd
2) Albin- La Cage
3) Harold Hill- The Music Man
4) The King- The King and I
5) Tony- WSS
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