What is the one role you'd die to play?
What is the one role you'd die to play?
GypsyRoseLee
Broadway Star Joined: 7/5/04
#0What is the one role you'd die to play?
Posted: 1/1/05 at 2:18am
What is the one role in any musical OR play that you would absolutely die to play?
Mine- Ms.Lovett in Sweeny Todd or Yente the Matchmaker in Fiddler
"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
#1re: What is the one role you'd die to play?
Posted: 1/1/05 at 2:34ammax in the producers
Attend the tale of Bovine Boy
His party threads we all enjoy
But does he have Mad Cow Disease?
He doesn't eat beef - but cows skating? - oh please!!!
With cocoa!?!
And lemonade!?!
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(World)
#2re: What is the one role you'd die to play?
Posted: 1/1/05 at 3:07am
because I'm a guy -
Mama Rose
Mrs. Lovett
Dot/Marie
#3re: What is the one role you'd die to play?
Posted: 1/1/05 at 2:40pmA dead student revolutionary person at the Barricade... I've heard so much about that, you have no idea... or Javert. It'd be fun to kill myself without actually killing myself.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read - Mark Twain
Broadway Star Joined: 12/31/69
#4re: What is the one role you'd die to play?
Posted: 1/1/05 at 3:00pm
Adelaide - Guys and Dolls
Cathy - Last 5 Years
Little Red - Into the Woods
Joshua488
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#5re: What is the one role you'd die to play?
Posted: 1/1/05 at 3:03pm
Also because I'm a guy:
Audrey - LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
Adelaide - GUYS AND DOLLS
Christine - THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
Penny Pingleton - HAIRSPRAY
As a guy, I could actually get away with Audrey, Adelaide and Penny... vocally. My falsetto is large and I can "belt" to the back row... trust me. (My "belt" is more of a falsetto/chest voice mix... it's hard to describe.) Christine goes a little too high for my falsetto, though. 
Updated On: 1/1/05 at 03:03 PM
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#6re: What is the one role you'd die to play?
Posted: 1/1/05 at 3:22pm
Meersy!
Sad to be all alone in the world.
Updated On: 1/6/05 at 03:22 PM
#7re: What is the one role you'd die to play?
Posted: 1/1/05 at 3:35pm
Kim in Miss Saigon
I wouldn't die to play them, but it would awesome to play Ruth in Pirates of Penzance; Eponine in Les Mis: the ones I can think of off the top of my head.
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bwayballerina
Broadway Star Joined: 11/14/04
#8re: What is the one role you'd die to play?
Posted: 1/1/05 at 3:39pm
one role is too hard...
Reno Sweeney- Anything Goes
Anita (or Maria)- West Side Story
Elphaba- Wicked (if I ever learn how to belt, that is)
#10re: What is the one role you'd die to play?
Posted: 1/1/05 at 4:05pmI would love to play Sweeney Todd or Judge Turpin and the mother from "The Bad Seed"
It's eckspecially apropos
So if you really want to know
Do I love you?
Don't aks.
#11re: What is the one role you'd die to play?
Posted: 1/1/05 at 4:58pm
Musicals:
Marius from LES MIZ
Hedwig from HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH
George from SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
Jason from BARE (during its ATA run...then I get to make out with Michael Arden 
)
Plays:
Hieronimo from THE SPANISH TRAGEDY
Ned Weeks from THE NORMAL HEART
Prior from ANGELS IN AMERICA
Hamlet from HAMLET (who didn't want to play Hamlet at one point?)
Rosalind from AS YOU LIKE IT
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HEDWIG: "The road is my home. In reflecting upon the people whom I have come upon in my travels, I cannot help but think of the people who have come upon me."
#12re: What is the one role you'd die to play?
Posted: 1/1/05 at 5:02pm
Marguerite - The Scarlet Pimpernel
Other fave roles of mine are:
Héloise - Rage Of The Heart
Lisa/Emma - Jekyll & Hyde
Lucy - Jekyll & Hyde
Angelina - Trial By Jury
Christine - POTO (if only I could get those high notes!)
Fantine - Les Miserables
Lilli Vanessi - Kiss Me, Kate
saddle shoe side kick
Broadway Star Joined: 6/24/04
#13re: What is the one role you'd die to play?
Posted: 1/1/05 at 5:03pm
Belle (BatB)
Other roles I really wanna play: Penny Pingleton (Hairspray), Amber VonTussle (Hairspray), & Amneris (Aida) . Little Sally (Urinetown) and Audrey (LSoH) would be fun too, lol.
"I'm a pretty girl, mama." -Penny Lou Pingleton, Hairspray
"You like football, Ed?" "Yeah..." "Good. Me too." -Chad & 'Ed', All Shook Up
"You like football, Ed?" "Yeah..." "Good. Me too." -Chad & 'Ed', All Shook Up
#14re: What is the one role you'd die to play?
Posted: 1/1/05 at 5:08pm
Maureen or Mimi- RENT
Amneris or Aida- AIDA
Roberta- Zanna, Don't!
Magenta- Rocky Horror
If I were a guy:
Any of the guys in RENT
Emcee- Cabaret
Frank N Furter or Riff Raff- Rocky Horror
I have my books and my poetry to protect me...
#15re: What is the one role you'd die to play?
Posted: 1/1/05 at 5:20pm
Christine- Phantom of the Opera
Mina- Dracula
Janet- Rocky Horror just cuz I absolutely love the show
Dracula 1/2~ I was born to love you and to need you and to let you go free...
WhereAmIGoingTo
Understudy Joined: 12/30/04
#16re: What is the one role you'd die to play?
Posted: 1/1/05 at 5:52pm
If I could actually sing, you mean?
Elphaba from Wicked
For a close second place:
Mimi or Maureen from Rent, and Eponine or Fantine from Les Mis
But now we have come almost to the end. One last step. And then, when I take power, they will be pulled down and ground into dirt for what they did to you. And what they did in so contemptuously underestimating me.
#17re: What is the one role you'd die to play?
Posted: 1/1/05 at 7:58pmIf i acted and was a guy- mark from rent hands down!
"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!
broadwaystar2b
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/04
#18re: What is the one role you'd die to play?
Posted: 1/1/05 at 8:06pmEffie Melody White from Dreamgirls
#19re: What is the one role you'd die to play?
Posted: 1/1/05 at 8:12pm
Maureen- RENT
Glinda- WICKED
Christine - POTO
Sally - YAGMCB
Audrey- LSOH
Amneris- AIDA
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
Joshua488
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#20re: What is the one role you'd die to play?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 12:43am
I can't believe I forgot to mention Elphaba! OF COURSE I would love to play her! I can belt "Defying Gravity" really well. If I had a microphone on this computer, I would let y'all hear!
And I WOULD put Effie from DREAMGIRLS, but whenever I sing that song (with every riff of Jennifer Holliday's, mind you), I get hoarse. So I couldn't do that role! LOL
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#21re: What is the one role you'd die to play?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 12:45am
One that hasn't been mentioned: Evita
"I don't always rush in like this..."
"Two drifters off to see the world. There's such a lot of world to see. . ."
#22re: What is the one role you'd die to play?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 12:49am
Princeton/Rod would be nice....
Linus would be spectacular and adorable...
Penny Pingleton *just to sing her verse in "You can't stop the beat"
Alex in "Aspects of Love"
"Y'all have a GRAND day now"
sweetiedarlinmia
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/8/04
#23re: What is the one role you'd die to play?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 12:52am
Aida- AIDA
Emmie- Caroline, or Change
Beneatha- A Raisin in the Sun
Sarah- Ragtime
Updated On: 1/3/05 at 12:52 AM
#24re: What is the one role you'd die to play?
Posted: 1/2/05 at 1:02amYounger Brother-Ragtime
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