Different plays with the same characters?
Different plays with the same characters?
Different plays with the same characters?#0
Posted: 2/4/06 at 8:29pm
I'm trying to come up with a list of plays by different playwrights that have the same characters, but I'm drawing a complete blank! For example, I know there must be multiple plays about historical people like Sarah Bernhardt, Edgar Allen Poe, Joan of Arc etc.
Anyone got any examples?
re: Different plays with the same characters?#1
Posted: 2/4/06 at 8:31pm
this won't help, but here it goes.
hamlet by shakespeare and "rosenkrantz and Gildenstern are dead" by Stoppard
re: Different plays with the same characters?#2
Posted: 2/4/06 at 8:35pm
Both Assassins and Ragtime feature Emma Goldman, though she has a much bigger part in the latter.
re: Different plays with the same characters?#3
Posted: 2/4/06 at 8:37pmWizard of Oz, The Wiz, Wicked. Just link the characters.
re: Different plays with the same characters?#4
Posted: 2/4/06 at 8:37pm
Aren't Funny Girl and Funny Lady both about Fanny Brice?
I don't know if Funny Lady is a play or a movie, I have just heard it brought up with Funny Girl, so this could be absolutely no help at all. 
re: Different plays with the same characters?#5
Posted: 2/4/06 at 8:55pm
Jamie Tyrone in both Long Days Journey Into Night and Moon For The Misbegotten
FDR was in Sunrise at Campobello and Annie.
Oedipus in Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus and Gospel at Colonus.
Antigone in Antigone and Gospel at Colonus
Aunt Esther is a constant presence throughout August Wilson's play cycle, but is only seen in Gem of the Ocean.
Sally Bowles in I Am A Camera and Cabaret
Eugene Morris Jerome is the lead character for Simon's BB series -- Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues and Broadway Bound (and his mother Kate and brother Stanley are in Brighton Beach and Broadway)
I know that there are lots of others.
re: Different plays with the same characters?#6
Posted: 2/4/06 at 9:17pm
There have been several Dracula plays and musicals over the years.
Huck Finn in Big River, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and I believe there was at least one non-musical version of Huckleberry Finn.
There are (at least) two musicals of Sweeney Todd and several nonmusical versions
Charles Wykeham in Charley's Aunt and Where's Charley? (there are a ton of musicals based on plays)
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re: Different plays with the same characters?#7
Posted: 2/4/06 at 9:31pmWhen I grow up, I want to be Margo Channing. You are amazing and I'm a big fan! :)
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re: Different plays with the same characters?#8
Posted: 2/4/06 at 9:48pm
Julius Caesar appears in plays by Shakespeare and Shaw, amlng others.
Abe Lincoln is the subject of several plays.
Besides RAGTIME, Henry Ford also appears in the play CAMPING WITH HENRY AND TOM.
June Hovick, a.k.a. Dainty June, a.k.a. June Havoc, appears in GYPSY and in her own autobiographical play, MARATHON '33.
Vaudeville producer E.K. Albee (grandfather of Edward Albee) appears in GEORGE M! and MINNIE'S BOYS.
Then of course there are the sequels and prequels:
Lilian Hellman's THE LITTLE FOXES and it's prequel ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST have many of the same characters.
Thes same for the musicals OF THEE I SING and LET 'EM EAT CAKE, BYE BYE BIRDIE and BRING BACK BIRDIE, THE BOYFRIEND and DIVORCE ME DARLING, BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS and BEST LITTLE WHORE HOUSE GOES PUBLIC, ANNIE and ANNIE 2. Notable, all the originals were hits, all the sequels were flops.
Updated On: 2/4/06 at 09:48 PM
re: Different plays with the same characters?#9
Posted: 2/4/06 at 10:17pm
It's opera, but there's The Barber of Seville by Rossini and The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart which both feature the character of Figaro the Barber.
re: Different plays with the same characters?#10
Posted: 2/4/06 at 10:26pmThere is more than one Phantom of the Opera.
re: Different plays with the same characters?#11
Posted: 2/4/06 at 10:27pm
Falstaff appears in three Shakespeare plays: Henry IV, Part 1; Henry IV, Part 2; & The Merry Wives of Windsor
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re: Different plays with the same characters?#12
Posted: 2/5/06 at 3:38amSeveral characters in "Into The Woods" are in other shows.
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re: Different plays with the same characters?#13
Posted: 2/5/06 at 3:48am
Phaedra - Seneca (Hippolytus) and Racine.
*Terrible story, however.
"FDR was in Sunrise at Campobello and Annie. "
FDR in REEFER Madness. Sorta.
re: Different plays with the same characters?#14
Posted: 2/5/06 at 4:11am
Oo, oo... there's Mame. Off hand I can think of a play (Auntie Mame) and a musical (Mame).
Of course there are the two Wild Parties... the list is pretty endless, I suppose, but I don't feel like listening anything else. Margo pointed out some good ones.
joey
re: Different plays with the same characters?#15
Posted: 2/5/06 at 4:56am
Eleanor Roosevelt -- Sunrise at Campobello, First Lady Suite
Oscar Wilde -- Gross Indecency, The Judas Kiss, The Invention of Love
Lillian Hellman -- Imaginary Friends, Lillian (solo show with Zoe Caldwell)
The Day family (and their servants) -- Life with Father, Life with Mother
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re: Different plays with the same characters?#16
Posted: 2/5/06 at 11:20amHelen Keller and Annie Sullivan are both the subjects in The Miracle Worker and Monday After The Miracle.
re: Different plays with the same characters?#17
Posted: 2/5/06 at 11:32am
It's opera, but there's The Barber of Seville by Rossini and The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart which both feature the character of Figaro the Barber.
They feature more than Figaro... also Rosina, Count Almaviva, Dr. Bartholo, don Basilio, and arguably Marcellina. There's also a third opera, though it's not very popular, featuring Figaro, Rosina, the Count, and Susanna.
But these might not count because they are all based on the Beaumarchais Figaro Trilogy plays: Le Barber de Seville, Le Mariage de Figaro, and La Mere Coupable
If you want to go into operas, there are a lot more... like Wagner's Ring Cycle trilogy.
re: Different plays with the same characters?#18
Posted: 2/5/06 at 1:02pmIt's a big stretch but there is Mimi from "La Boheme" and Mimi from "RENT."
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re: Different plays with the same characters?#19
Posted: 2/5/06 at 4:20pm
When mentioning FDR, we are forgetting that Rodgers & Hart wrote an entire musical about him called I'D RATHER BE RIGHT, which starred George M. Cohan.
The Greek myth of Amphitrion has been dramatized at least 35 times. The version which starred Lunt and Fontaine was titled "Amphitrion 33" because it was the 33rd verion. After that there were at least two more - Cole Porter's OUT OF THIS WORLD and the late 1980's Off-Broadway musical OLYMPUS ON MY MIND.
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re: Different plays with the same characters?#20
Posted: 2/5/06 at 7:09pm
Jeanne d'Arc in THE LARK and ST JOAN
Reynaldo Hahn's CIBOULETTE has the character of Rodolfo from LA BOHEME
Peter Parnell's ROMANCE LANGUAGE had a cast including Huckleberry Finn
Jean Cocteau's INFERNAL MACHINE is about Oedipus and Jocasta, as is Sophokles' tragedy
Giraudoux did a play about Electra, as did Euripides and Sophokles
Elizabeth I in Schiller's MARY STUART, Maxwell Anderson's ELIZABETH THE QUEEN, and Robert Bolt's VIVAT! VIVAT! REGINA
Henry VIII in Shakespeare's HENRY VIII and Maxwell Anderson's ANNE OF THE THOUSAND DAYS
Updated On: 2/6/06 at 07:09 PM
re: Different plays with the same characters?#21
Posted: 2/5/06 at 7:55pm
All the characters in Wild Party are in both versions (or most of them are...)
Wasn't there a play called "Roxie" before Chicago?
There have been SEVERAL musicals of Cyrano, and of course the Rostand play.
The characters in the Marvin trilogy...
Didn't Neil Simon use several characters repeatedly?
Henry Higgins in Pygmalion and My Fair Lady
King Arthur and Launeclot et al. in Camelot and Spamalot
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re: Different plays with the same characters?#22
Posted: 2/5/06 at 8:39pm
Anne Boleyn and Catherine of Aragon in Shakespeare's HENRY VIII and Anne Boleyn and Catherine of Aragon in the Richard Rodgers/Sheldon Harnick musical REX.
Margo Channing - You are amazing. Who needs google when we have you?
Updated On: 2/5/06 at 08:39 PM
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