5 Dream Roles
5 Dream Roles
stylinbohemian
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/24/05
#05 Dream Roles
Posted: 4/30/05 at 1:27pm
Okay all u actors/actresses/broadway fans..if u could be in any show on broadway, on or off past or present what would be your top 5 dream roles?
As for me...
Shelly - Bat Boy
Kim - Bye Bye Birdie
Penny - Hairspray
Elphaba - Wicked
Louise - Gypsy
now how bout u?
gavrochegirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
#1re: 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 4/30/05 at 1:38pm
1. Gavroche in LES MISERABLES
2. Artful Dodger in OLIVER!
3. 10 Year Old Tommy in THE WHO'S TOMMY
4. Anything in ASSASSINS
5. Patsy in SPAMALOT
What the puck?!
Updated On: 5/21/05 at 01:38 PM
#2re: 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 4/30/05 at 1:52pm
1. Mimi - RENT
2. Kate - Avenue Q
3. Penny - Hairspray
4. Galinda - Wicked
5. Kim - Bye Bye Birdie
And the other thing about the Phantom Lady was, Bert, she realized, in the city that never sleeps...
What did she realize, Kitten?
That all the songs she'd listened to, all the love songs, that they were only songs.
What's wrong with that?
Nothing, if you don't believe in them. But she did, you see. She believed in enchanted evenings, and she believed that a small cloud passed overhead and cried down on a flower bed, and she even believed there was breakfast to be had...
Where?
On Pluto. The mysterious, icy wastes of Pluto.
Elizabeth_DeBris
Broadway Star Joined: 1/29/05
#3re: 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 4/30/05 at 1:58pm
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=462836#928015
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=807926#810881
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?boardname=bway&thread=116101#259094
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?boardname=bway&thread=34173#145677
Updated On: 4/30/05 at 01:58 PM
stylinbohemian
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/24/05
#4re: 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 4/30/05 at 2:05pmokay so its similar but its a classic that i dont think gets old on the board! na! plus its just for broadway fun!
#5re: 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 4/30/05 at 2:28pm
Eponine- Les Miz
Elphaba- Wicked
Jo March- Little Women
Christine- Poto
and I just wanna do J&H,, AIDA and Sweeney Todd. Any role would be fine.
#6re: 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 4/30/05 at 2:36pm
Amneris-Aida (I swear I was born to play her)
Maureen-RENT
Mimi-RENT
Audrey-LSoH
Elphaba-Wicked
1. Ted Allen: Everyone has an interesting life if you ask the right questions.
2. Great buckets of Spoffnor, they're going to sing!
3. "I love shrubs that are historical." -Johnny and The Sprites
4. "We're not singing it to you, we're singing it for us." -Rosario Dawson, about La Vie Boheme
5. "The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." -The History Boys
6. "Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on." -The History Boys
2. Great buckets of Spoffnor, they're going to sing!
3. "I love shrubs that are historical." -Johnny and The Sprites
4. "We're not singing it to you, we're singing it for us." -Rosario Dawson, about La Vie Boheme
5. "The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." -The History Boys
6. "Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on." -The History Boys
#7re: 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 4/30/05 at 2:37pm
Elphaba- Wicked
Mimi- RENT
Maureen- RENT
Audrey- LSoH
Amneris- Aida
I wanted to get something that an "ex"-junkie like him would really appreciate and cherish....it's a brick of heroin shaped like a heart.
-Scrubs
#8re: 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 4/30/05 at 2:41pm
1. Mimi ~ RENT
2. Kate ~ Avenue Q
3. Maureen ~ RENT
4. Galinda ~ Wicked
5. Elphaba ~ Wicked
Kristin Chenoweth could barely control a Great Dane she trotted onto the stage. "Great, they gave me a dog that weighs five times what I do", she quipped. For the record, she weighs 93 pounds, and has a Maltese.
Elizabeth_DeBris
Broadway Star Joined: 1/29/05
#9re: 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 4/30/05 at 2:46pm
Ah, hell. I don't think I've ever done this before, anyway.
Momma Rose- Gypsy
Fantine- Les Miserables
Any role- Company
Any role- Sweeney Todd
Aldonza- Man of la Mancha
This is, of course, provided that talent has nothing to do with it. And frankly, I'd be pretty darn thrilled with just about any role out there.
Beergoggles
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/30/05
#10re: 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 4/30/05 at 3:24pm
O.k haven't done one of these in a while.....
Chris- Miss Saigon
Marius- Les Miserables
Tony- West Side Story (done it but again would be cool)
Mickey- Blood Brothers
Emcee- Cabaret... shock value of role, plus when i saw Adam Pascal do it he looked like he was having a blast!
Jesus Loves You... Everybody else thinks you're an idiot!
#11re: 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 4/30/05 at 3:40pm
Joey Evans - PAL JOEY
Mr. Applegate - DAMN YANKEES
Tateh - RAGTIME
Thomas Andrews or Harold Bride - TITANIC
Henry Higgins - MY FAIR LADY
#12re: 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 4/30/05 at 4:47pm
OK, I give in...
Sweeney, SWEENEY TODD (like that's a surprise)
George, WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
Booth, ASSASSINS
Henry Higgins, MY FAIR LADY
and...I dunno, I'll throw in Austin in TRUE WEST
apdarcey
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/10/04
#13re: 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 4/30/05 at 4:50pm
1) younger brother, "ragtime"
2) seymour, "little shop of horrors"
3) john, "miss saigon"
4) marvin, "falsettos"
5) guido contini, "nine"
Fabalaflies891
Swing Joined: 1/28/05
#14re: 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 4/30/05 at 5:03pm
Elphie/Glinda- Wicked
Aldonza- Man of La Mancha
Belle- Beauty and the Beast
Marian- The Music Man
Maureen- Rent
#15re: 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 4/30/05 at 5:04pm
Elphaba-Wicked
Kate Monster/Lucy T. Slut-Avenue Q
Mama-Chicago
Tracy-Hairspray
Sally Bowles-Cabaret
I know this groc'ry clerk...
apdarcey
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/10/04
#16re: 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 4/30/05 at 5:14pmgod. if i were a girl i would be killing someone to play mama rose. hello girls!!!!!!!!!
Elizabeth_DeBris
Broadway Star Joined: 1/29/05
#17re: 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 4/30/05 at 5:39pm
Oh, I forgot- Sally Bowles, in Cabaret.
apdarcey: hee, Momma Rose is definetely at the top of my list.
Codeman109
Chorus Member Joined: 5/10/04
#18re: 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 4/30/05 at 5:40pm
Snoopy in YAGMCB
Emcee in Cabaret
Willard in Footloose
Barret in Titanic
Cat in the Hat in Seussical
Chorus Member Joined: 12/31/69
#19re: 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 4/30/05 at 5:45pm
Tracy - Hairspray
G(a)linda - Wicked
Nadia - Bare
Kate Monster - Avenue Q
Lucy - Jekyll and Hyde
=)
broadwayjunkie2
Swing Joined: 3/12/05
#20re: 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 4/30/05 at 6:36pm
Carrie-Carousel
Cleo-Most Happy Fella
Esther-Meet Me in St. Louis
Louisa-Nine
Mrs. Sally Adams-Call Me Madam
Lord knows, at least I was there, and I'm here! Look who's here! I'm still here!-Follies
When i see how sad you are it sort of makes me...happy!-Avenue Q
#21re: 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 4/30/05 at 7:18pm
Assuming I had talent, I would be:
1. Audrey from L.S.o.H
2. Meg from Phantom of the Opera
3. Kate Monster/Lucy t. Slut on Avenue Q
4. Fantine from Les Mis
5. Betty from Sunset Boulevard
"It's not a problem, it's just a challenge, it's a challenge, to resist temptation."
CurtainUp
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/9/04
#22re: 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 4/30/05 at 7:24pm
1. Mme. Thenardier - Les Miz
2. Queen Aggravain - Once Upon a Mattress
3. Berthe - Pippim
4. Mae - Bye Bye Birdie
5. Eulalie Shinn - Music Man
I'm a character actress who can't sing if you couldn't tell. 
Rosencrantz: "Be happy - if you're not even HAPPY what's so good about surviving? We'll be all right. I suppose we just go on."
- from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
NYC_or_Bust
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/8/05
#23re: 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 4/30/05 at 7:25pm
1 Bert (Mary Poppins)
2 Herbie (GYPSY)
3 John Adams (1776)
4 Trevor Grayden (Thoroughly Modern Millie)
5 Lumiere (Beauty and the Beast)
Understudy: Cogsworth (Beauty and the Beast), Gaston (Beauty and the Beast), Billy Lawlor (42nd Street), Fredrik (A Little Night Music), and Caractacus Potts (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)
I adore the black band holding on the Phantom's mask. ~ Jenna2
#24re: 5 Dream Roles
Posted: 4/30/05 at 7:29pm
1)Young Cosette- Les Mis
2)Lilli Vanessi- Kiss Me Kate
3)Magnolia Hawks- Show Boat
4)A Ziegfeld Girl- Ziegfeld Follies
5)Any Part written especially for ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And obviously there are others, but I must hold myself back...
~And let us try, before we die, to make some sense of life~
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