Best Character Scene/Number
Best Character Scene/Number
whatyouown223
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/4/05
#0Best Character Scene/Number
Posted: 3/13/05 at 2:09pm
What's the best number for a character to explore themselves and really show off the their acting skills?
I think Thank Goodness is great because it shows Glinda's deeper side. Also, One Song Glory.
MaskedRose
Swing Joined: 3/13/05
#1re: Best Character Scene/Number
Posted: 3/13/05 at 2:20pmI think you're right on with those, and Halloween is really good for Mark. Also I think Stars for Javert, and Javertsd suicide, and confrontation, Javert is deep...but the suicide one comes a little too late so that kinda sucks...I kinda lost my train of thought...if I think of more...
"A guy gave a girl 12 roses, eleven real one fake, he said, when the last rose dies I'll stop loving you..."
#2re: Best Character Scene/Number
Posted: 3/13/05 at 2:23pmPractically every Sondheim song.
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#3re: Best Character Scene/Number
Posted: 3/13/05 at 2:25pmDefying Gravity- it shows the Wicked Witch didnt do all the evil things... it was really the Wizard who made her out to be Wicked
#4re: Best Character Scene/Number
Posted: 3/13/05 at 2:53pmAdelaide's Lament from GUYS AND DOLLS
"Blow out the candles Robert and make a wish. Want something, want SOMETHING."
#5re: Best Character Scene/Number
Posted: 3/13/05 at 2:54pmBut Not for Me. Not very long but very powerful
bwaybaby891
Featured Actor Joined: 2/8/05
#6re: Best Character Scene/Number
Posted: 3/13/05 at 2:58pm
No Good Deed- Some pretty powerful facial expressions and movemtent
Aldonza- Wonderful acting number. It explores deeper feelings and a lot of pain
"He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals"
-Benjamin Franklin
Sant
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/12/04
#8re: Best Character Scene/Number
Posted: 3/13/05 at 3:03pmI second "But not for me" also, You'll never walk alone, So in Love, Stormy Weather, Supper Time (from As Thousands Cheer, not Charlie Brown)
~And let us try, before we die, to make some sense of life~
#9re: Best Character Scene/Number
Posted: 3/13/05 at 3:11pm
Sondheim:
Franklin Shephard Inc.
I'm Still Here
every song from Assassins
Rose's Turn (duh)
The Ladies Who Lunch
Being Alive
Sunday in the Park With George
A Little Priest
Finn:
The Music Still Plays On
A Day in Falsettoland
Passover
Hitchiking Across America
The Nausea Before The Game
Anytime
What Would I Do?
Venice
All Fall Down
I'm Breaking Down
14 Dwight Ave. Natick Massachusetts
When The Earth Stopped Turning
I Have Found
JRB:
Stars and the Moon
every single song from The Last 5 Years
I could think of so many more...
[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.
#10re: Best Character Scene/Number
Posted: 3/13/05 at 3:31pmyes, i second the ones from l5y.
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
#11re: Best Character Scene/Number
Posted: 3/13/05 at 3:37pm
Halloween- Mark
One Song Glory, Your Eyes- Roger
Out Tonight- Mimi
Defying Gravity, No Good Deed- Elphaba
Thank Goodness, Popular- Glinda
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
#12re: Best Character Scene/Number
Posted: 3/13/05 at 4:07pm
Fantasies Come True - Rod
Alas For You - Jesus (well, it seems so at least on the 2000 recording...to me at least)
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.
#13re: Best Character Scene/Number
Posted: 3/13/05 at 4:07pm
Sally Bowles-Cabaret
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.
Updated On: 3/13/05 at 04:07 PM
#14re: Best Character Scene/Number
Posted: 3/13/05 at 4:16pm
"I Don't Know How to Love Him" from JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR
"Not a Day Goes By"-MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
Heck, rather than continue this, i'll second priest's "Every Sondheim Song"..but I'll say particularly in COMPANY
"Y'all have a GRAND day now"
Thesbijean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/9/04
#15re: Best Character Scene/Number
Posted: 3/13/05 at 5:41pm
Guys, WICKED is not the answer to everything. I know people are gonna reply with "Well, everybody has their OWN opinions," but to say that Thank Goodness is a scene like that is well, just plain silly. My list is:
This Nearly Was Mine from South Pacific
What Have I Done from Les Miserables
Rose's Turn from GYPSY
Now/Later/Soon from A Little Night Music
Updated On: 3/13/05 at 05:41 PM
#16re: Best Character Scene/Number
Posted: 3/13/05 at 6:18pm
"Rose's Turn" from GYPSY and "One Song Glory" from RENT
A most ingenious paradox.
whatyouown223
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/4/05
#17re: Best Character Scene/Number
Posted: 3/13/05 at 6:30pmNot everyone answered Wicked. I do think Thank Goodness is a good scene for an actress because you can explore your emotions and let the audience in on your thoughts.
mattvcrewse
Understudy Joined: 3/2/05
#18re: Best Character Scene/Number
Posted: 3/13/05 at 6:35pm
I agree with StickToPriest.
Also,
"Javert's Suicide"
"Why Should I Wake Up?"
"C'est Moi"
"I Wonder What the King Is Doing Tonight?"
Most anything in MY FAIR LADY
"My Funny Valentine"
#19re: Best Character Scene/Number
Posted: 3/13/05 at 7:07pm
YOUR GONNA LOVE ME......Effie White(Dreamgirls) , she let us know how she was really filling and that we were going to love her.
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Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#20re: Best Character Scene/Number
Posted: 3/13/05 at 7:54pmConfrontation - Jekyll & Hyde
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#21re: Best Character Scene/Number
Posted: 3/13/05 at 10:31pm
"Javert's Suicide" Philip Quast sends shivers up my spine.
"Empty chairs at empty tables" Les Miserables
"All the wasted time" from Parade (I know that's not the right title but I can't remember it right now)
"If I can't lover her" from Beauty & the Beast
arg! I'm having a brain drain. I'll get back to you when my brain returns.
bwaybaby891
Featured Actor Joined: 2/8/05
#22re: Best Character Scene/Number
Posted: 3/13/05 at 10:41pm"If I can't Love Her" is my momma's favorite. She thinks it is so powerful. I can't believe I forgot it. Your not having the brain cramp, suNLily, I am.
"He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals"
-Benjamin Franklin
Derech2
Featured Actor Joined: 10/24/04
#23re: Best Character Scene/Number
Posted: 3/13/05 at 10:52pm
Thesbijean, your reasoning is rather circular, isn't it? Of course I am going to say everyone has there own opinion. You just stated yours. Both your opinion and "silly" are quite relative, unless you would like to prove otherwise.
My opinions:
Stars ~ Les Misérables
I'd Give my Life for You ~ Miss Saigon
Coimhéad fearg fhear na foighde.
Updated On: 3/13/05 at 10:52 PM
jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#24re: Best Character Scene/Number
Posted: 3/13/05 at 11:50pm
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