Weirdest role you have ever played
Weirdest role you have ever played
TheatreSlave
Understudy Joined: 11/3/05
#0Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/1/05 at 2:32am
Yup, I have thought of another thread.
What is the weirdest role you have ever performed? Any criteria constitutes "weird", so long as you explain why it is weird.
here are mine:
(warning- several references to children's theatre ahead)
Number one: Quasimodo in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"- a childrens show, no matter how many people told me I was typecast, the makeup was utter hell. And this was the first time I had ever played a "good" character.
Bedelia Cotter in "Marmalade Gumdrops" - a child is cleaning up his room and as he decides to throw things out, his furniture comes to life to show him what kind of fun he could have with those things if he uses his imagination. I was the bed. Believe me, you cannot come up with a joke that I haven't heard. But I still think this is a great show for kids, if only anyone would trust me.
"The Diary of Adam & Eve"- A college production, using a scene form the show. I was the snake. Up on a ladder, in black, with a large toy snake draping me from head to ankle.
"We are all misfits, I guess, in the theatre. Otherwise we wouldn't be here." ~Michael Kandel, "Ogre"
#1re: Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/1/05 at 7:50am
The role itself may not be weird, but I played it in a weird way. I was Madame Mooch (a fortune teller) in “Nobody Famous”. The director loved my crazy voice, which was great cos she’d never really liked much that I did before. 
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I remember days
Or at least I try
But as years go by
They're sort of haze
And the bluest ink
Isn't really sky
And at times I think
I would gladly die
For a day of sky
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And Starbucks will use the words 'large' and 'small', not pretentious crap like grande and tall.
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"You could get away with anything if you call it art and tell people who don't like it that it's cutting edge culture." --vmlinnie
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I remember days
Or at least I try
But as years go by
They're sort of haze
And the bluest ink
Isn't really sky
And at times I think
I would gladly die
For a day of sky
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
And Starbucks will use the words 'large' and 'small', not pretentious crap like grande and tall.
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"You could get away with anything if you call it art and tell people who don't like it that it's cutting edge culture." --vmlinnie
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WindyCityActor
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/13/03
#2re: Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/1/05 at 10:43amWhen I was about 5, I played Humpty Dumpty in a Church Play.
#3re: Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/1/05 at 11:53amFreshman year of high school, I, a 14-year-old girl, played the Fakir in The Secret Garden. Yep. There I was with my big white cheeks in a turbin singing "Aaaah-O. Jadu-kay...." They almost made me wear a beard. That would have made the freshman year humiliations truly complete!
#4re: Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/1/05 at 12:11pmi was a wall in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. That's right, I was basically a set piece. There were two of us. But we did interact with the characters and had a few lines. It was a student production that I was worried about. But it turned out rather well. It was a cool experience. ... though, my arms got tired from holding up my wall for the entire duration of the show!
broadwaystar2b
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/04
#5re: Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/1/05 at 12:16pm
I played Geneva Lee Brown in 1940's Radio Hour
The sultry sassy African American Jazz singer was played at that performance by the most gangly lil 13 year old Jewish girl you've ever seen
Updated On: 12/1/05 at 12:16 PM
Born2cthelightsofbway
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/04
#6re: Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/1/05 at 12:17pmDiana in "Of Thee I sing." I just hated that role, and that show so much, it was stupid, and the songs weren't even that good!
"You alone can make my song take flight, it's over now, the Music of the Night!!!!!"
#7re: Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/1/05 at 12:20pm
I was the voice of the English language instruction record in a production of Lilies of the Field. 
My lines:
Please send the valet up to my room
Here is my laundry list
Five pairs of socks
Two pajamas, pajamas, pajamas, pajamas, pajamas (the record player is supposed to stick)
#8re: Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/1/05 at 12:46pm
i was a sheep in a christmas pageant. I was so pissed that i couldn't be mary. GRRR!
Somone on here was a horses butt. No lie. I remember seeing the post and falling off my chair laughing.
"talent is wanting something hard enough to work for it" - my drama teacher :)
mikewood
Broadway Star Joined: 4/7/05
#9re: Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/1/05 at 1:23pm
Probably Dr. Sommers in Christopher Durang's " 'dentity Crisis."
Highlights included literally switching clothes back stage with my "wife" and re-enetering.
BLAH BLAH BLAH
#10re: Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/1/05 at 1:26pmI just ended my weirdest role about a week or two ago. I played Philip Glass in David Ives's "Philip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread". Basically, the composer Philip Glass goes into a bread shop and encounters an old girlfriend. He then goes into a dream sequence using about 10 lines of dialogue, mixing up the words to create weird rhythms and combinations, and tells the story of their relationship. It involved acting like a giant cuckoo clock and a scene that not-so-vaguely resembled an acid trip. Then it snaps back to reality and abruptly ends. It was the worst show I have ever done, all of those who offered feed back said only, "The talent was good..." :P
I hold a degree in Musical Theatre from Montclair State University. It is useless. Now I'm funny for money. Oh, and I sing.
Alex LaVelle
Understudy Joined: 8/16/05
#11re: Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/1/05 at 1:30pmThe narrator in Into the Woods. It wasn't the role that was weird, really, as much as the circumstances. I was also the lighting designer/lighting board op for the show, so I was literally running lights and dialogue (via microphone patched into the lighting booth) at the same time. The only time I ever actually went on stage was for my death scene in the middle of act two.
#12re: Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/1/05 at 1:31pmThe Ugliest Person in the World. Don't get any ideas, I was hidden under a blanket the whole time.
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how
Wanting life but never knowing how
#13re: Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/1/05 at 1:41pmMartin the Maniac in The Canterville Ghost. Loved doing the show, it was my very first one, but black body paint on my face, neck, chest, and arms, and pantyhose under shredded pants was just a little much lol.
#14re: Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/1/05 at 1:46pmI'm a female who played Polonius from Hamlet in 6th grade -that was pretty weird. I'm pretty sure I wore some crazy beard of some sort, HA.
-Anyone want to turn anarchist with me?"Bless you and all who know you, oh wise and penguined one." ~YouWantItWhen????
Danielm
Broadway Star Joined: 3/17/05
#15re: Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/1/05 at 1:55pm
I played "the sad clown" in an AIDS musical, I had to sit in a mock toilet stall tapping a huge, ovesize shoe.
I also played a control freak who sort of kidnapped a "poet" and forced him to write without alchohol in a strange avant garde play.
Yes, we do need a third vampire musical.--Little Sally, Gypsy of the Year 2005.
#16re: Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/1/05 at 1:59pm
I was "Moo" the reindeer in a children's play of The SnowQueen. I had a fuzzy pink tail!
I was also a mute japenese tourist who got hit by a bomb in the groundzero club. I stared at the audience the entire show through a viewfinder at the edge of the stage.
"Judy Garland, Jimmy Dean, You tragedy Queen" ~ Taboo
"Watching a frat boy realize just what he put his d!ck in...ex's getting std's...schadenfruede" ~ Ave Q
"when dangers near, exploit their fear" ~ Reefer Madness the Musical
"Watching a frat boy realize just what he put his d!ck in...ex's getting std's...schadenfruede" ~ Ave Q
"when dangers near, exploit their fear" ~ Reefer Madness the Musical
#17re: Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/1/05 at 2:00pm
neither of mine are roles but they involve performing.
1) I used to mime. Enough said.
2) For band camp (yeah marching band lol) I had to dress up as SCARY SPICE and do terribly choreographed dance. They almost put brown make-up on me but I vehemently refused.
--Like an odd exotic creature on display inside a zoo, hearing children asking questions makes me ask some questions too...--
PottstownTeacher
Stand-by Joined: 11/21/05
#18re: Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/1/05 at 2:24pm
We did a production of TOMMY this past summer. My wife was Cousin Kevin. And yes, she played it as a woman. I was the Specialist in Act Two, cause you know, me and Norm Lewis are so interchangable. Him of the bravura tall suave booming baritone african american race, and me the barely-making-it-to-5-foot-7-furry meatball Italian Catholic. I joined the show late in the rehearsal process when they were in desperate need of guys (and what community theatre can't relate to that?!?) so in the first Act, I was the priest who married Mr. and Mrs. Walker, then I was the Horny Specialist who took more time with his hot endowed nurse than examining Tommy. (Can we say horny on here?) Then, later on, I was Mr. Simpson (you know, who announced, outside the house, that Sally couldn't go to the meeting). It was quite the evening for me. I guess the wierdest role before that was Sr. Hubert in NUNSENSE A-MEN! Again, me being so like the large Black women who have played her in the past!
Updated On: 12/1/05 at 02:24 PM
#19re: Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/1/05 at 2:27pm
Beth in A Lie of the Mind
But I've played Oliver in Oliver! and Nick Bottom in Midsummer Night's Dream, if we are naming playing the opposite role.
AspectsofLoveLover
Understudy Joined: 7/30/05
#20re: Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/1/05 at 5:27pmGay Wellington...I am SOO not a drunk
"It's telling me to hold you tight and dance like it's the last night of the world."-Miss Saigon
#21re: Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/1/05 at 5:45pmThe Dodo in Alice in Wonderland, when I was 12. I had a white face (that face paint was RIDICULOUS to get off), a big orange beak, feathers (only on my shirt), and, a gigantic bottom, which made it even weirder because I was so tiny.
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
#22re: Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/1/05 at 5:47pmSinging Phone Sex Girl. Don't ask!! lol
#23re: Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/1/05 at 5:56pm
Every children's theatre production ever...thank God I'm too old now and can't be guilted into them anymore!
A couple years ago, I was in a play called Lagooned about these people who are stranded on an island, where I was the jogger. I ran and jumping-jacked across the stage, and got hit on by an island hermit. Not cool.
Most recently, unfortunately, I was Hildegard Hamhocker in Tumbleweeds. It was a really good part, but the character was an ugly, loud, obnoxious hillbilly who couldn't get a husband. Not to mention I had to make out with a kid much too young for me every night.
Thanks for allowing me to vent, I've been waiting for a post like this!
Updated On: 1/21/07 at 05:56 PM
#24re: Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/1/05 at 5:58pmjrb_actor omg out of all of these that is by far my favorite. ahahaha!!!
--Like an odd exotic creature on display inside a zoo, hearing children asking questions makes me ask some questions too...--
