The Official VENT ABOUT YOUR WORST ROLES Thread

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 12:47am

Mine: Armand in ONCE IN THIS ISLAND. Me and African dancing do not mix.

Updated On: 12/5/06 at 12:47 AM

[Magical_Ms._Mistoffeles_72]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 1:00am

hmm. This sounds stupid, but I love all my roles

[justagirl2]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 1:05am

Updated On: 5/23/14 at 01:05 AM

[Perfectly Marvelous]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 1:53am

Not that it was a bad role, but the Accordionist in "Subway Circus". I didn't talk for the entire show and everyone else seemed to have a line or two, so I felt jipped in a sense. It was still a somewhat decent role because I got to play the accordion and won a special award for it!

The only really bad role I got was the one I turned down and that was for "The Crucible". I was cast as a 'girl in the courtroom' and I felt that was unfair and told my director that I wasn't going to take it. Surprisingly, he and I didn't have a falling out after it. And instead, I got to be the prop master for the show.

[elvenprincess971]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 2:20am

Hollywood Blonde/Louise Understudy in Gypsy... soooo much drama between the actors and the production team with that company. I couldn't wait for it to be over.

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 6:03am

Archie - George M!
Train Conductor - Wonderland!

[SarahBeth]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 10:47am

Belva Summers in The Lottery. Ugh that was bad. Horrible play to begin with, with an even worse part. Add it being a horrible high school show in our gym with no acoustics whatsoever.

[Dancinqueen123]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 1:49pm

I had to play a gargoyle in Beauty and the Beast last year. What kind of a part is that anyway? Another girl and I had to sit in the same spot and do nothing. It wasn't for the whole play, but the director said, "I want all of the objects in the castle to take on a somewhat human form." Give me a break!

[hannahshule]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 1:56pm

NathanLaneStalker, I thiknk you need to wary of musicals with an exclamation point after them

[Kitzarina]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 3:59pm

Teen Chorus -- Footloose

I was only on stage during "On Any Sunday" and the finale. Other than that, we had to stay in the orchestra pit and sing the chorus parts to help amp up the sound during dance numbers.

Beyond mind-numbing.

[StarStruckGB]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 4:47pm

My post is completely pointless,
but I like to live by the "actors want to alwasy like their characters" philosophy.
I DO however get upset when I get cast into small roles because rehersals are 6-9 Mon-Thurs and I got stuck in an Italian class Wednesdays 4-6:30.
=)
I was Pandora Bearer in "Register Here"
But I liked the part nonetheless, even if she was only in there for the death jokes, haha.

[ComaBaby01]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 5:21pm

i just played Sandy in Grease, and although its a role some girls would kill to play, don't waste your energy, ladies. you're not missing much. Horrible character (or lack thereof), Danny played the role too feminine, and its just a bad show. Right up there with Bye Bye Birdie lol.

[lovelyspotlight]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 8:35pm

I don't really have a "worst role." But I do admit that I wasn't 100% content with Mrs. Harcourt in Anything Goes. That's the older Harcourt, not Hope. I think it's because I hardly got to sing, not even in ensemble. But I still liked the role. It was fun. =]

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 9:51pm

hannahshule - HAHAHAHA I think your right!

[MarkRascati]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 9:59pm

Well when I was a freshman I played person 3 in david and lisa, and a police officer in Hello Dolly and didn't have a terribly great time with either of those....but all my larger roles i've enjoyed

[Junior]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 10:04pm

bad role to end all bad roles: Gandalf in The Hobbit-the musical.

an 18 year old, in a SPARKLY green cape, with a 12 foot tall staff (i'm not kidding. I measured it) and the godawful baby powder in the hair trick to "age" me. (their decision NOT mine) In short, it was $hit.

[Chrismas42]

Posted: 12/5/06 at 11:54pm

Anyone know anything about Honk!????
If you do then you would know that the role I got "SPecialty Dance Rooster" is not ANYWHERE in the script...
That, and I had to understudy both the Cat, and the actor who played Drake and Greylag.

Why would I do that you may ask... because I'm our theatre dept's B****. LOL

[lilprima2b]

Posted: 12/6/06 at 12:59am

^ But isn't it worth it just to have the phrase "Specialty Dance Rooster" in your vocabulary?



I am in the worst show ever written right now... it's an original dance-theatre collaborative piece, and while that in itself sounds like a recipe for disaster, they do it annually at my school, and usually it's really good. Unfortunately, this year the teacher who runs it is on maternity leave, and instead we have this horrible plotless boring rambling THING choreographed by the teacher who needs to stick with teaching Pilates and, like, dance for dummies. IT'S SO BAD. It has NO plot, the dialogue is painfully bad, and the girls playing the lead roles sound like they're dead. I'm honestly embarrassed to be in it.

And now that I'm done with that.... haha, sorry to ramble.

Posted: 12/6/06 at 8:10am

Featured Dancer in "Kiss Me, Kate".
Or, as we have so appropriately renamed it, "Kill Me, Kate"

[ComaBaby01]

Posted: 12/6/06 at 5:11pm

now that i think about it, trudi (a pageant girl) in Smile was a doozie of an experience as well. let em tell you when it comes to shows that shouldn't be done in public places, i've built up quite a resume (Grease, Smile, Unsinkable Molly Brown...)

[katieface]

Posted: 12/8/06 at 4:57am

oh man

STARMITES.

i dont know what the hell my "shotzi" character was about. That attack of the banshies was terrifying though.

I also did a review of "miss saigon" for some reason i was cast as kim ( i'm irish ) and an asian girl was cast as ellen.

*throws hands in the air* i dont understand directors sometimes

Posted: 12/8/06 at 8:32pm

The Footman in Happiest Millonaire: The play. It was an ex-Disney musical turned into a play. I walked on stage with a vase and did not SPEAK. I just walked out at the top of Act 2 and placed a vase down. I was told the part was almost cut. I was like "What the hell, I spend 3 months doing rehersal to place a god damn vase?" I did prompting for the show, which I'm doing this year for CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, because I did not make the show.

I hate the plays my school does. They stink. Our director is the worst director on the face of the place. I don't even call her a director- that implies respect: She's an "advisor"

[LilMiZBroADwaY23]

Posted: 12/9/06 at 9:36am

Okay... the Wizard in "Once upon a Mattress"

I don't know if you know this, but that role is a male... and I'm a female...

I'm 5'9 and I had to follow around a 5' queen with a stool in the most demeaning role I've ever had to play. I sang five words in the entire show.

I'm a flippin' opera singer, and I should have gotten Larken, but the director thought that the person that got it was a senior, and I was a junior... so seniority ruled.

Shoot me now.

OH and a centaur in "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" play. Yeah, I was a centaur. My dad my a gigantic cardboard horse butt with something like the idea of "The Lion King" with the movable legs. I couldn't take it off during the show and I had to stand the whole time. It was horrendous.

[dramatothemax]

Posted: 12/9/06 at 7:30pm

I was in South Pacific...generally an embarassing fact. hahah

Lets see, bad roles...Annie...well it was cool the first and second time, but by the 6th time, I just couldn't handle it anymore.


I was in my school's Short Play Project, in the one act Intermission. It wasn't necessarily the show I was in that was bad, but Sorry Wrong Number was TERRIBLE, and the idea was just bad.

Oh oh oh!! Our gallery was updated for our school. Take a look!!! I'm in most of the Millie pictures and in the Short Play Project pictures I'm the one in Act 2, with the huge shoulder pads! That's just the part of the gallery with last years shows, be sure to check out the past few years!! (Beauty and the Beast, Les Mis etc etc)


The Gallery! Updated On: 12/9/06 at 07:30 PM

[MimiLovesRoger]

Posted: 12/9/06 at 11:04pm

Arrrgh. I hated being in the chorus of Godspell. We were only in a couple of numbers. A lot of the other people loved the show, but i hated it. uggh. I dunno, I loved alot of the poeple in the cast, but they had other people to hang around with, so I was stuck reading in the corner in the freezing basement/dressing rooms of the theatre in a hoodie with my iPod. Bad times...