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#1

Favorite Roles

What are some favorite roles some of you have played?
#2

re: Favorite Roles

a chorus memeber who stood on risers with 60 other people and moved our arms a lot in 42nd Street!
You aren't feeling overwhelmed are you?

Updated On: 7/20/04 at 03:32 PM

#3

re: Favorite Roles

Charley Kringas in "Merrily We Roll Along"
Gordon Schwinn in "A New Brain"
Shrdlu in "The Adding Machine" (yes, Shrdlu....that is how it is spelt)
#4

re: Favorite Roles

Captain Hook
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
#5

re: Favorite Roles

eponine-les mis (my dream role. yay!)
eliza-my fair lady
nancy-oliver
wicked witch-wizard of oz(cackling is fun!*cackles*)
leisl-the sound of music





"People asking questions, lost in confusion. Well I tell them there's no problems, only solutions." ~The one and only John Lennon
#6

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Debra Sue in Bye Bye Birdie, my first and breakout role. 3 lines, backup singing, and screaming. Nothing can compare to that!
Don't make me brag. ;)
#7

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Tito Merelli-Lend Me a Tenor
Joseph-JATATD

There are my favorites for a musical and a play
(Joseph might be replaced if I get the role of Cervantes/Don Quixote this fall...that role is amazing to me)
#8

re: Favorite Roles

Annie Oakley-Annie Get Your Gun
Roxie-Chicago
and Benjamin in The Yellow Boat
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#9

re: Favorite Roles

Annie in Annie.

And I sang I'm The Greatest Star from Funny Girl at my school, does that count as saying I was Fanny Brice?
What is Broadway? A street? Some say it's a street. Some say it is the best street in the world. Others think its terrible. That's the beauty of it, it's terribly beautiful. Some hate it and don't know why. Others love it and don't know why. That's what makes it so wonderful, it's a mystery.
#10

re: Favorite Roles

a few favorites of mine are

Tulsa in "Gypsy"
Billy Kopecki in "big"
Tony Forte in "Barry Manilow's Copacabana"
Tommy Keeler in "Annie Get Your Gun" (Peter Stone revival)
Chuck Cranston in "Footloose"
Tenor 1 in "Songs for a New World"
And if she'll say, "My darling, I'm yours!" I'll throw away my striped tie and my best pressed tweed, all I really need is the girl...

Updated On: 7/20/04 at 05:55 PM

#11

re: Favorite Roles

Without question, John Merrick in THE ELEPHANT MAN.
#12

re: Favorite Roles

Guinevere- Camelot
Maria- WSS
Robin- Godspell
Dolly- Hello Dolly
Annie- Oklahoma


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Updated On: 7/20/04 at 06:07 PM

#13

re: Favorite Roles

Louie in "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?"

and the Younger Man in "Putting It Together"
#15

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Reverend Mother-Sound of Music
Lead Doo-Wop-LSOH
Eponine-Les Miz(but it was a concert)
#16

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Freddy - My Fair Lady
Marryin' Sam - Li'l Abner
#17

re: Favorite Roles

billy flynn- chicago
j. pierrepont finch- how to succeed
riff raff and brad majors- rocky horror
george- sorry, wrong number
mr. applegate- damn yankees
guido contini- nine
warbucks, fdr, rooster, healy, et al- annie (i was the male understudy)
bill clinton
"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel
#18

re: Favorite Roles

The Artful Dodger-Oliver

and

Cinderella's Prince/Wolf-Into the Woods

Both were a FANTASTIC and FUN roles to perform!

"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
#19

re: Favorite Roles

About four years ago, playing Barnaby in Hello, Dolly! There is just something about playing the stupid one. It helped because both I as Barnaby AND our Minnie were blonde. =)

Jonathan---Arsenic and Old Lace (creepiest part I have ever played)
Danny---Grease
Bran Allen---Pillow Talk
Charlie---Brigadoon
Pat Gilbert---State Fair

And of course, Harold Hill---the Music Man

and WORST part ever?

Tony Brokhurst (a.k.a The Boyfriend) IN The Boyfriend.

Updated On: 7/20/04 at 07:08 PM

#20

re: Favorite Roles

Yay I love this question.
Oh, and real quick, I just wanted to say Im new and hello! Ive been going to the boards for months but didn't start posting til now.

Ok:
Nancy- Oliver. My favorite.
Dorothy- The Wizard of Oz. This was my absolute dream role because Judy Garland is one of my idols.
Miss Hannigan- Annie
Rosie- Bye Bye Birdie
Gangster- Guys&Dolls. Sometimes it just rocks to be chorus.

Oh and worst just for the hell of it: Maggie- A Chorus Line. I swear, I wanted to shoot myself.
#21

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Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz was my all time favourite.
And Sleeping Beauty. I'm such a fairy tale girl.
Laurie Morton in Brighton Beach Memoirs was a hell of a lot of fun too.
I've got Bianca/ Lois Lane coming up, and I'm SO excited!
Mitzi in Crazy for You and Lulu in Cabaret were also fun, I'm a dancin' girl re: Favorite Roles
#22

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Sally- YAGMCB whats better than being a dumb blonde and doing it Cheno style?
#23

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Clarinet1 in My Fair Lady and Clarinet2/Bass Clarinet/Alto Clarinet in Into the Woods.

Sorry. I was feeling left out....
#24

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WORST---Tinman in 'The Wizard of Oz'

I LOVE the Cowardly Lion and Scarecrow (I've played him too), but I find the Tinman so stale and by far the most boring of the three
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
#25

re: Favorite Roles

Action in West Side Story - that was a good time
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