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Dream Role.... What's Yours?

Posted: 8/3/03 at 4:41am

What's the role you would most want to play if you ever got a chance?

My pick is Cathy from The Last Five Years. Aside from the music being oh so incredible and its being wonderful in the vocal complexity area, she's just a very dynamic character in reverse. How much she changes because of this relationship. In correct sequence, she goes from being ambitious and hopeful to depressive and self-pitying. Love the change. Love the music. Love JRB.

-<3->

PS --> No one said that in the role you pick you have to be kick-ass. LoL.
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re: Dream Role.... What's Yours?

Posted: 8/3/03 at 9:42am

We've had quite a few of these threads, but this is different because its only one role! Oye- if I had to pick one, I'd say Billy Lawlor. To be able to do what that character does on stage every night would be unbelievable. And some of the people I have seen play that role are big Broadway inspirations, and it would be an honor to play that role, especially on Broadway. Please god, let that show run for another 5 or 6 years!
#3

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Posted: 8/3/03 at 10:15am

Peter in Peter Pan (musical version)
It was the first show I ever saw and I was in awe of the whole experience and I knew instantly that I was supposed to be an actor. The orle has been been played by a male in just about every major theatre market except in the U.S.
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Posted: 8/3/03 at 10:41am

My dream role would have to be Fanny Bryce in Funny Girl. I love that show, and I would absolutely love to be able to play her one day!
"And it never changed, and it never grew. And I never dreamed, and I awoke one day and I looked around. I thought, my God, I'll never have the moon...."
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Posted: 8/3/03 at 10:56am

My dream role would have to be Christine Daae!! =-D

I just love POTO!!
"Life will be frozen peaches and cream. Baby, dream Your Dream" ~ SC
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Posted: 8/3/03 at 11:55am

Rose from "Gyspy". To play Rose, you need to be really very talented and that's what I want to be when I get older, so Rose would be the perfect character for me!
~*Christa*~ "Don't ya wanna be the life of the party?" Idina Menzel, THE WILD PARTY
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Posted: 8/3/03 at 12:59pm

If I weren't so vocally untrained and dead wrong for the part, and so physically nothing at all resembling type for a part that isn't typecast, I'd love to play Freddie Trumper in Chess. Why? Just to thunder onstage singing "What a Scene!" or play in some of the great moments he gets ("So You Got What You Want," "You Wanna Lose Your Only Friend?," "No Contest")...but I'll always have the shower. re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Dream Role.... What's Yours?

-Wayne
Not a performer.
#13

FUNNY GIRL

Posted: 8/3/03 at 3:33pm

Funny girl, does someone perhaps mean Fanny Brice?

Awesome and amazing.
Rest in peace, Iflitifloat.
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re: Dream Role.... What's Yours?

Posted: 8/3/03 at 4:01pm

Cinderella/The Witch/The Baker's Wife in Into the Woods
Maureen in Rent
Little Sally in Urinetown
Adelaide in Guys and Dolls
Claudia in Nine
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Posted: 8/3/03 at 5:04pm

It would also be nice to play Fanny Brice from Funny Girl. She has some great songs to sing!
~*Christa*~ "Don't ya wanna be the life of the party?" Idina Menzel, THE WILD PARTY
#16

Dream Role.... What's Yours?

Posted: 4/2/04 at 5:21pm

I would love to be cast as Reno in "Anything Goes", Miss Dorothy in "Thoroughly Modern Millie", Elphaba in "Wicked", or Cathy in "The Last 5 Years".

Quite bizarrely (and perhaps pathetically) though, my dream role has always been the un-pivotal role of Ursula in "Bye Bye Birdie".
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re: Dream Role.... What's Yours?

Posted: 4/2/04 at 6:03pm

Maureen in RENT. She's been my dream role since I was 10.



My other dream role is Elphaba in Wicked.
I have my books and my poetry to protect me...
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Posted: 4/2/04 at 6:16pm

If I hadn't already been both Eponine and Cosette in Les Mis, I would say them.

Hmm.. Sarah from the Newsies. Ok, so it isn't really broadway, but it's the NEWISES!
I'm Gail and Les Miserables and Footloose are among my favorite musicals. I have been in Les Miserables as both Eponine and Cosette, and in Footloose as Ariel and Rusty. I have also been in Fame! as Carmen Diaz. I was in Annie: the 20th aniversary at only 10 years old as Molly.
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Posted: 4/2/04 at 6:26pm

Mama Rose in Gypsy. I identify with her probably more than I'd care to admit. We share a driving ambition and a lot of the same insecurities. She's an amazing character, with so many different levels to her, it could never get boring. I also feel that the lives of "some people" are dreadfully dull and ultimately unproductive. I think it's a wonderful acting role, which is where my first strengths lie.
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Posted: 4/2/04 at 6:34pm

I'm going to go with Eponine in Les Mis. For now that is I tend to roate between Eponine and Penny Pingleton based on my mood...

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