dream role

#1

dream role

Posted: 6/7/08 at 2:26am

i know this question is obvious and asked a lot, but i'm bored and curious, so i'm going to ask it anyway. if you could pick one role as your dream role, what would it be?

for me, i would have to say it's officer lockstock from urinetown. i would kill for that part!

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#2

re: dream role

Posted: 6/7/08 at 2:38am

One of the two witches in Wicked... Elphaba is a more challanging part for me.
Millie in Thoroughly Moderen Millie.
Mary in JCS
Christine in Phantom
Johanna in Sweeney
Viv in Legally Blonde
Narrarator in Joseph
Maureen in Rent (not that I like girls, just to clear that up)
And those are just the "Big time shows," that's not including the less popular shows.

I'll venture into that another day haha.

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#3

re: dream role

Posted: 6/7/08 at 5:25am

As a young soprano, my dream role is either Eliza Doolittle in 'My Fair Lady' or Nellie Collins in 'Floyd Collins'.

If age is no issue, my dream role is Norma Desmond in 'Sunset Boulevard'.

If age and gender are no issue, my dream role is currently Judge Turpin in 'Sweeney Todd', but this one does rotate periodically and could easily be something else in a month or two. ^_^

Wait, are we just doing musicals? 'Cos as plays go, I'd KILL to play Henry V. Somehow. O_O

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#4

re: dream role

Posted: 6/7/08 at 1:36pm

Johanna in Sweeney Todd
Ilse and/or Wendla (not at the same time) in Spring Awakening

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Updated On: 7/5/08 at 01:36 PM

#5

re: dream role

Posted: 6/7/08 at 2:08pm

Harper in Angels in America.

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#6

re: dream role

Posted: 6/7/08 at 2:31pm

Ones I will probably never be able to play (voice type, looks, etc):

Ilse (Spring Awakening)
Millie (Thoroughly Modern Millie)
Sally Bowles (Cabaret)
Ivy (BARE)

Ones I could POSSIBLY play at one point:

Kate Monster (Ave Q)
Penny OR Amber (Hairspray)
Margot (Legally Blonde)
Ti Moune (Once On This Island)
Wendla, Anna, or Thea (Spring Awakening)
Precious (Steel Pier)
Miss Dorothy (Thoroughly Modern Millie)
Galinda (Wicked)
Olive (Spelling Bee)
Helen Keller (The Miracle Worker)
Anne Frank (The Diary of Anne Frank)
Shelley (Bat Boy)


Yes...very long list ha.

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#7

re: dream role

Posted: 6/7/08 at 6:46pm

I have wanted to play the Bakers Wife from Into the Woods since I saw it in 5th grade.

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#8

re: dream role

Posted: 6/7/08 at 9:22pm

Hedda Gabler in about eight years. It's a goal ...

#9

re: dream role

Posted: 6/7/08 at 10:10pm

Yup there are so many threads on this
but I always respond haha
Bakers Wife... Into The Woods
Tracy... Hairspray
Rusty... Footloose

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#10

re: dream role

Posted: 6/7/08 at 10:18pm

I have SO many, but here are a few:
Clara: The Light in the Piazza
Christine: The Phantom of the Opera
Wendla or Ilse: Spring Awakening
Johanna: Sweeney Todd
Glinda: Wicked
Eliza: My Fair Lady
Audrey: Little Shop of Horrors
Cunegonde: Candide
Luisa: The Fantasticks
Cosette: Les Miserables (I'm playing Fantine this summer, but I really want to play Cosette someday. I think I'm better suited for that role anyway.)

And one role that I'll never get to play:
Maria: West Side Story

#11

re: dream role

Posted: 6/8/08 at 2:00am

Bebe/Kristine/Maggie- A Chorus Line
Ilse or Martha - Spring Awakening

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#12

re: dream role

Posted: 6/8/08 at 2:21am

I just got cast as my number one dream role, Belle.
But once I'm done with Belle, i think it may be a tie between Fantine and Fanny Brice. Or Jo/Beth in Little Women. Or Louise in Gypsy...or Dot in SITPWG...yeah I have way too many hahaha.
But right now, I am perfectly content being Belle!

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#13

re: dream role

Posted: 6/8/08 at 11:00am

My dream roles would be...
KIM from Miss Saigon
MACY PARK from The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
EPONINE from Les Mis
ELPHABA from Wicked
DIANA from A Chorus Line
WENDLA from Spring Awakening
ARIEL from The Little Mermaid :)
MILLLLLIE from Thoroughly Modern Millie

If I had blonde hair.. I would love to play Glinda (Wicked), and Elle (Legally Blonde) :P

I haven't really seen many Asians play non-Asian roles on Broadway though.. pssh

Updated On: 6/8/08 at 11:00 AM

#14

re: dream role

Posted: 6/8/08 at 12:25pm

If age, gender, race, and vocal part were not an issue my dream role would be Jim in BIG RIVER. Big dream for a little white soprano.

Realistic dream roles are:
The Witch in INTO THE WOODS
Cinderella in CINDERELLA
Kate/Lilli in KISS ME, KATE (already done this one, but its my fav.)
Mary Lane in REEFER MADNESS
Any character in LITTLE WOMEN
Johanna in SWEENEY TODD
Cunegonde in CANDIDE
Mabel in PIRATES OF PENZANCE

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#15

re: dream role

Posted: 6/8/08 at 1:15pm

My dream role is Jekyll/Hyde. Meaning this is the role I'm aspiring to play at some point in my career.

The part that I probably will never play is Peter in Bare (we're pretty much the same person haha). I just don't forsee many productions of this anytime soon. But maybe.

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#16

re: dream role

Posted: 6/8/08 at 3:45pm

Fredrik- A Little Night Music
Sweeney- Sweeney Todd (but i'll prolly do that this fall !!!!!!!!)
Berger- Hair
Pippin- Pippin
Max Bialystock- Producers
Tommy- Carrie (with Tommy's Poem reinstated)
Bobby- Company
Che`- Evita

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#17

re: dream role

Posted: 6/8/08 at 11:45pm

Anything Spring Awakening

but

(don't laugh)

Rita Racine from Steel Pier.

#18

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Posted: 6/9/08 at 12:03am

ophelia in hamlet

#19

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Posted: 6/9/08 at 2:11am

Jekyll & Hyde [you guess what show...]

#20

re: dream role

Posted: 6/9/08 at 3:39am

Clara-Light in the Piazza
Cosette/Eponine-Les Mis (voice range of Cosette but Eponine is so much more interesign and better developed)
Marcy-I Love You Because
MissAnne-Lone Star Love
Wendla-Spring Awakening
Leading Player-Pippin
Johanna-Sweeney todd
Ariel-TLM
Cathy-Last Five Years
Any Factory Girl-Parade
Val/Maggie-A Chorus Line
Abigail-Crucible
Winnifred/Larken-Once Upon a Mattres (would LOVE to be either but better suited to Larken)

#21

re: dream role

Posted: 6/10/08 at 3:29am

Peter from Bare.

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#22

re: dream role

Posted: 6/10/08 at 9:35am

Dorothy in The Wiz!!! (bind casting?!!?)
Olive in Spelling Bee.
Maggie in ACL (but I not the best danceer lol)
Gertrude in Sussical.
Ariel in The Little Mermaid.

And if Disney ever comes out with Anistasia on Brodaway, then I want to be her too =]


There prob. a few more, but I can't think of them right now.

#23

re: dream role

Posted: 6/12/08 at 10:11pm

Toad in A Year With Frog and Toad
Snoopy in You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
Anybody in ANY Sondheim show
And even though I don't like the show that much, I'd want to be Leading Player in Pippin

Also, if they ever decide to cast Fanny Brice as a boy, count me in!

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#24

re: dream role

Posted: 6/13/08 at 4:53am

I will never fail to be faintly surprised at the people who claim to love Anastasia but just don't seem to realise it's not Disney. o_O

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#25

re: dream role

Posted: 6/13/08 at 8:26am

Anthony in Sweeney Todd...and I got it! But then the show fell apart. So I did all the character work and there's no show! Dammit!