Can we please stop saying what roles are and are NOT demanding!! =)
Can we please stop saying what roles are and are NOT demanding!! =)
Joined: 12/31/69
#0Can we please stop saying what roles are and are NOT demanding!! =)
Posted: 5/2/06 at 10:50pm
You will never know what role is demanding or not unless YOU have done it 8 shows a week! A role that is easy and not demanding for ME to sing might be very difficult for SOMEONE else...everyone has their own unique set of pipes! riieeeght??! Its NOT just the singing that can cause vocal fatigue..a role that requires a lot of energy, yelling, speaking...whatever..is just as demanding as singing is on your voice 8 shows a week! Actors also have a life outside of the show and there could be other circumstances in life affecting their voices. IE, allergies, running around with their kids all day, publicity responsibilties, not getting enough rest..you name it. THOSE things can make a role MORE demanding that YOU think it should be.
Anyway..I have been reading and posting on this site for months now and I am sure that so many will disagree with me. And thats ok. I just had to speak my peace cause my stomach turns whenever I read a post saying "that role isn't that demanding".
Updated On: 5/2/06 at 10:50 PM
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#1re: Can we please stop saying what roles are and are NOT demanding!! =)
Posted: 5/2/06 at 11:28pm
Emma Carew is an easy role to play.
::scurries::
#2re: Can we please stop saying what roles are and are NOT demanding!! =)
Posted: 5/3/06 at 12:08amThat's nothing compared to Young Eponine.
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
#3re: Can we please stop saying what roles are and are NOT demanding!! =)
Posted: 5/3/06 at 12:12amCan we also stop using the phrase "hard working" when trying to explain an actor in a piece of crap show?
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#4re: Can we please stop saying what roles are and are NOT demanding!! =)
Posted: 5/3/06 at 12:13am
No.
Look at the ensemble of Carrie - those dances, however bad, were very complicated.
#5re: Can we please stop saying what roles are and are NOT demanding!! =)
Posted: 5/3/06 at 12:15amThat cast of Carrie was so hard working, that show didn't deserve to close because the actors gave sooooooooooooooo much energy!
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#6re: Can we please stop saying what roles are and are NOT demanding!! =)
Posted: 5/3/06 at 12:16amI hate you.
#7re: Can we please stop saying what roles are and are NOT demanding!! =)
Posted: 5/3/06 at 12:17am
Not as much as I hate tweens. 
#8re: Can we please stop saying what roles are and are NOT demanding!! =)
Posted: 5/3/06 at 12:22am*headdesk*
Measure your life in love, RENTheads, and keep it always in your heart.
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Avatar: Me with Al Larson, Jonathan Larson's father.
bigrab1018
Leading Actor Joined: 10/9/05
#9re: Can we please stop saying what roles are and are NOT demanding!! =)
Posted: 5/3/06 at 12:23amElphaba is demanding.
"Billy, put down that phylactery...we're Episcopalian." - Spelling Bee
#10re: Can we please stop saying what roles are and are NOT demanding!! =)
Posted: 5/3/06 at 12:40am
All of you are so hurtful. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
btw, I love to re-inact beauty and the beast in my bathroom with my belle and beast dolls. the sound quality of my bathroom makess my singing sound way better! sometimes she leaves him and cries and becomes a junkie and sometimes she accepts the fact that he's a beater and stays anyway. I usually exclude mrs. pots and chip because I feel that they are free-loaders! I usually use my cat as loominare the candleguy, but my cat plays him slightly latino! imaginations rock! by the way my cat and I are having a great summer and I didn't get a perm! love, carla!
And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."
#11re: Can we please stop saying what roles are and are NOT demanding!! =)
Posted: 5/3/06 at 11:59amThat made me laugh SO hard wonderwaiter that I don't have to do my ab routine now today! MWAH!
"For me, THEATRE is an anticipation, an artistic rush, an emotional banquet, a jubilant appreciation, and an exit hopeful of clearer thought and better worlds."
~ an anonymous traveler with Robert Burns
#12re: Can we please stop saying what roles are and are NOT demanding!! =)
Posted: 5/3/06 at 12:33pmWell said, andrea. Thank you. I'm sick of those discussions as well. Everyone has different abilities and different extenuating circumstances.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
erikaamato
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/12/04
#13re: Can we please stop saying what roles are and are NOT demanding!! =)
Posted: 5/3/06 at 12:40pmAmen, Rath and Andrew! =)
mejusthavingfun
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/12/06
#14re: Can we please stop saying what roles are and are NOT demanding!! =)
Posted: 5/3/06 at 1:56pmi think that Ghandi part in Lestat is easy. He did it before in Aida as her father. He gets to ride on things and over-annunciate mediocre dialogue… oh and laugh.
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