Roles You've Always Wanted to Play...

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 9/11/05 at 8:50pm

What are some roles you've always wanted to play but never had the chance? Here are some of mine:

- A Drag Queen (Either Hedwig or Frank N. Furter)

- A criminal of some sort

- A person going through a nervous breakdown

[Mythus]

Posted: 9/11/05 at 9:38pm

I've always wanted to play a crazy person.

[theatrebabe]

Posted: 9/11/05 at 9:45pm

I always want to play the villain, but I never get it!

[The Grovers Corners Yenta]

Posted: 9/11/05 at 9:59pm

Mama Rose in Gypsy, Bloody Mary in South Pacific and Dolly in Hello Dolly.

[Tenorific2]

Posted: 9/11/05 at 10:35pm

Dickon in "The Secret Garden" and Tobias in "Sweeney".

[gavrochegirl]

Posted: 9/11/05 at 11:17pm

Gavroche in Les Miserables. I know it sounds strange because I'm a girl, but it's such a cool role.

[TheatreDiva612]

Posted: 9/11/05 at 11:20pm

Christine in POTO, and Cunegonde in Candide

[supafreak]

Posted: 9/12/05 at 12:48am

a woman that could legimately be played by a man (stepmother in cinderella, sylvia in ruthless!)

a shakespeare lead

rose in gypsy (ha, but i'm deathly serious)

any sondheim roles

any tennessee williams roles

edmund or jamie in long day's journey

nick in ...virginia woolf

billy bigelow in carousel

...i've been fortunate to have played most of my 'dream' roles

[Lizziemonster]

Posted: 9/12/05 at 7:32am

The Hungarian girl with a verse in the Cell Block Tango, but only the versions were she did do it, not the innocent version like in the movie.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 9/12/05 at 7:45am

Salieri in AMADEUS.

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 9/12/05 at 11:00am

Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady
Captain Hook in Peter Pan
Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music
John/James in Love! Valour! Compassion!
Prior Walter in Angels in America
I'm sure there are pleny more - but I am too tired to think of them at the moment....

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 9/12/05 at 11:05am

Whatever role they'll pay me to play!

[Elphaba]

Posted: 9/12/05 at 11:07am

Lancelot Du Lac

but I was cast as Mordred

oh the humanity of it all.........

[Unknown User]

Posted: 9/12/05 at 1:18pm

excuse me while i thread jack. elphaba! i love your avatar! i saw that show a while ago (few years) in london..

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 9/12/05 at 1:20pm

Prior in Angels in America

Tobias in Sweeney Todd

Jack in Into the Woods

Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar

Mark in RENT

more to come! Updated On: 9/12/05 at 01:20 PM

[cathywellerstein]

Posted: 9/12/05 at 1:28pm

coalhouse walked jr. in ragtime....even though i'm an 18 year old white girl.

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 9/12/05 at 1:38pm

I've also always wanted to be Eponine too! But I'll have to settle on Marius :)

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 9/12/05 at 1:57pm

The Emcee in CABARET...need to lose a little weight, tho.
Also, Kippy in TAKE ME OUT and the lead in LOBBY HERO.

[supafreak]

Posted: 9/12/05 at 2:30pm

in response to all the guys saying Prior from AIA, i'm gonna go out on a limb & add Joe Pitt from AIA to my list.....and Margaret White.

[WonderBoy]

Posted: 9/12/05 at 2:40pm

I've always wanted to play Aldonza in MAN OF LAMANCHA.

By the way, Lizziemonster - Hunyak is innocent in both the stage and screen version of CHICAGO. Tina Paul (original revival) was amazing in that role. She gave me one of my many favorite moments in that show during the overture when she walks out center stage and stops and just stares at the audience and then abruptly dances upstage. Fab-u-lous! Interesting side note, Graciela Daniele was the original Hunyak and Fosse would ignore her completely. She would approach him looking for notes, responses, input etc, and he would just stare at her and walk away. She finally broke down because she couldn't take it anymore and asked what she had done to render him being so cold to her and he replied that now she knew what it felt like to speak and plea from the heart and have no one understand you. Brilliant!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 9/12/05 at 2:48pm

Lucia in Lucia Di Lamermoor!

[LightMyCandle]

Posted: 9/12/05 at 3:36pm

Polly in Crazy For You.
Maureen in RENT.
Roxie Hart in Chicago.

[Beergoggles]

Posted: 9/12/05 at 7:49pm

I just wanna die (not literally lol) I played a character that died once... but it wasn't really dramatic lol! I wanna do a really heart breaking death scene like in West Side Story, Romeo and Juliet, Carousel... something i just wanna do!

[Born2cthelightsofbway]

Posted: 9/12/05 at 7:54pm

Christine in POTO
Belle in Beauty and the Beast
Elphaba in Wicked
Glinda in Wicked

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 9/12/05 at 7:55pm

DAME in Mama Cass, the musical.