Roles you wished you could play.......if you were the opposite sex.....
Roles you wished you could play.......if you were the opposite sex.....
#0Roles you wished you could play.......if you were the opposite sex.....
Posted: 2/4/05 at 12:24pmWeird Topic, I know.....but don't tell me you've never thought about it. Well, I've always been found of Eponine from Les Miserable, Petra from A Little Night Music and Millie from Throughly Modern Millie and Fraulin Schiender in Cabaret, Louise in Gypsy, Diana in A Chorus Line, Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart(she has better songs than Roxie, but I might could play Roxie better), Sarah in Ragtime(although I'd have to be black too). Updated On: 2/11/05 at 12:24 PM
#1re: Roles you wished you could play.......if you were the opposite sex.....
Posted: 2/4/05 at 12:29pmif i could act and if i could sing, i would be mark in rent or the emcee in cabaret.
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell
plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
WindyCityActor
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/13/03
#2re: Roles you wished you could play.......if you were the opposite sex.....
Posted: 2/4/05 at 12:48pm
Maggie in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
In fact, I did use one of her monologues for an audition and got offered casting.
#3re: Roles you wished you could play.......if you were the opposite sex.....
Posted: 2/4/05 at 12:58pm
Mamma Rose, obviously... 
#4re: Roles you wished you could play.......if you were the opposite sex.....
Posted: 2/4/05 at 1:00pm
The Witch in "Into the Woods"
Baker's Wife in "Into the Woods"
Little Red in "Into the Woods"
Sheila in "A Chorus Line"
Happy, smile! Sad, frown! Use the corresponding face with the corresponding emotion! - Kate (Meg Ryan), French Kiss
#5re: Roles you wished you could play.......if you were the opposite sex.....
Posted: 2/4/05 at 1:04pm
Norma Desmond in "Sunset Blvd."
Mother in "Ragtime"
Judy Garland in "Boy From Oz"
Fantine in "Les Miserables"
Jane in "Jane Eyre"
Eliza in "My Fair Lady"
Glinda in "Wicked"
sanda
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/10/04
#6re: Roles you wished you could play.......if you were the opposite sex.....
Posted: 2/4/05 at 1:05pmDon Quixote in Man of La Mancha
#7re: Roles you wished you could play.......if you were the opposite sex.....
Posted: 2/4/05 at 1:55pmcoalhouse in ragtime
Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#8re: Roles you wished you could play.......if you were the opposite sex.....
Posted: 2/4/05 at 2:04pmAlbin in "La Cage". Well, I guess that isn't overly 'opposite' is it? LOL.
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JBSinger
Broadway Star Joined: 11/12/04
#9re: Roles you wished you could play.......if you were the opposite sex.....
Posted: 2/4/05 at 2:08pm
Eva Peron - Evita
Elphaba - Wicked
Witch - Into the Woods
Rose - Gypsy
Velma - Chicago
Effie - Dreamgirls
Grizabella - Cats
Mrs. Lovett - Sweeney Todd
Mother - Ragtime
ti Moune - Once on this Island
Eliza - My Fair lady
Queenie - Wild party (La Chuisa)
Kim - Miss Saigon
Fanny - Funny Girl
Adelaide - Guys & Dolls
Norma Desmond - Sunset Blvd.
funny story - I was music directing Sweeney Todd in college and our mrs. Lovett was having vocal problems for the final dress. So, she got up and did the blocking while I was on her mike doing her songs/dialogue. Some of the lines came out like Bea Arthur. Funny but productive.
Updated On: 2/4/05 at 02:08 PM
bjivie2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/04
#10re: Roles you wished you could play.......if you were the opposite sex.....
Posted: 2/4/05 at 2:09pm
If I was the opposite sex AND if I was black... Effie.
I've already sang "And I Am Telling You" at a cabaret. Lord, I'm a skank...
Eeeeeeyyyyyyyyaaaaaaaannnnnddddd aaaaaaaiiiiiiiiyyyyyyaaaaaammmmmmmm teeeeeeeelllllliiiiiinnngg yyyyooooooouuuuuuuwwwaaaahh...
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#11re: Roles you wished you could play.......if you were the opposite sex.....
Posted: 2/4/05 at 2:17pm
Norma Desmond in SUNSET BOULEVARD hands down. I would love to do that role.
I would also love to play something like Effie from DREAMGIRLS.
#12re: Roles you wished you could play.......if you were the opposite sex.....
Posted: 2/4/05 at 2:29pm
Sheila - A Chorus Line
The Baker's Wife - Into the Woods
Elphaba - Wicked
Glinda - Wicked
Kidjo - A Selfish Sacrifice (OyamO's version of A Doll's House now playing at the DCTC)
Just give the world Love.
#13re: Roles you wished you could play.......if you were the opposite sex.....
Posted: 2/4/05 at 2:30pm
Sweeney- Sweeney Todd
Javert or Enjolras- Les Miz
Radames- AIDA
Martin Guerre- Martin Guerre
Fagin- Oliver
Engineer- Miss Saigon
Roger- RENT
GypsyRoseLee
Broadway Star Joined: 7/5/04
#14re: Roles you wished you could play.......if you were the opposite sex.....
Posted: 2/4/05 at 3:05pmJohn Adams or Thomas Jefferson in 1776.
"This is what I trained to do, and this is what I love about theater. What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being. And out my own self, to shape and form and fashion a real human being--and to present that in such a way that people see something of themselves or their own understanding in that human being."
--Phylicia Rashad
#15re: Roles you wished you could play.......if you were the opposite sex.....
Posted: 2/4/05 at 3:12pm
Mark or Roger in Rent
Jack in Into the Woods
Jean Valjean in Les Miserables
Snoopy in You're a Good Man Charlie Brown or Snoopy the Musical
#16re: Roles you wished you could play.......if you were the opposite sex.....
Posted: 2/4/05 at 3:14pm
Miss Hannigan in "Annie"
Aida in "Aida"
Effie in "Dreamgirls"
Mrs. Lovett in "Sweeney Todd"
Rose in "Gypsy"
Dolly in "Hello, Dolly!"
etc. etc. etc.
~Joshua
My lip gloss is poppin'...
#17re: Roles you wished you could play.......if you were the opposite sex.....
Posted: 2/4/05 at 3:18pm
the 3 female leads in PLAZA SUITE and THE APPLE TREE
Martha in WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
Eliza in MY FAIR LADY
Mame in MAME
Dolly in HELLO DOLLY
Rose in GYPSY
Lucille in No,No, Nannette
the lead role (was the charachter named Evie?) in THE GINERBREAD LADY
Evita in EVITA
Fanny in FUNNY GIRL
and with some color changes:
Effie in DREAMGIRLS
and Lena Younger in RAISIN
"Blow out the candles Robert and make a wish. Want something, want SOMETHING."
#18re: Roles you wished you could play.......if you were the opposite sex.....
Posted: 2/4/05 at 3:21pmeponine, elphaba, peggy sawyer, millie, ado annie, amneris
awkward.
"I think it was the Korean tour or something. They were all frickin' asian!" -Zoran912
pndmnd
Broadway Star Joined: 4/3/04
#19re: Roles you wished you could play.......if you were the opposite sex.....
Posted: 2/4/05 at 3:21pm
I love that you created this thread! Whenever I see a show with an amazing male role that I would want, I always tell my mom that I found yet another role that I would crave if I were a guy. Here are a few:
Mother's Younger Brother (Ragtime)
Beast (Beauty and the Beast)
Valjean (Les Miz)
Judas (Jesus Christ Superstar)
Applegate (Damn Yankees)
Chris (Miss Saigon)
Don Quixote (Man of La Mancha)
WOSQ
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/03
#20re: Roles you wished you could play.......if you were the opposite sex.....
Posted: 2/4/05 at 4:30pm
Define "opposite sex".
If I were more butch (even half as butch as Betty Buckley) I'd love to do Billy Bigelow.
"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable."
--Carrie Fisher
Elizabeth_DeBris
Broadway Star Joined: 1/29/05
#21re: Roles you wished you could play.......if you were the opposite sex.....
Posted: 2/4/05 at 5:20pm
Sweeney (Sweeney Todd...)
Javert (Les Miserables)
Bobby (Company)
Albin (La Cage Aux Folles)
Roger or Carmen (The Producers)
Charlie Brown or Schroeder (YAGMCB)
Henry Higgins (My Fair Lady)
I'll post more if I ever think of them...
JohnnysGurl
Stand-by Joined: 2/2/05
#22re: Roles you wished you could play.......if you were the opposite sex.....
Posted: 2/4/05 at 5:25pmI got to play my dream role last year as Lil Red in Into the Woods but now my dream role is Elphaba from Wicked.
JohnnysGurl
Stand-by Joined: 2/2/05
#23re: Roles you wished you could play.......if you were the opposite sex.....
Posted: 2/4/05 at 5:29pm
oooo if u were the opposite sex....rite!
Jack from Into the Woods
Princeton from Avenue Q
#24re: Roles you wished you could play.......if you were the opposite sex.....
Posted: 2/4/05 at 5:52pmDefinitely Chiffon in Little Shop, and Marmee in Little Women.
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