Favorite Roles
Favorite Roles
Joined: 12/31/69
#1re: Favorite Roles
Posted: 7/20/04 at 3:32pma 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
FinnFanatic
Stand-by Joined: 6/21/04
#2re: Favorite Roles
Posted: 7/20/04 at 3:38pm
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)
#3re: Favorite Roles
Posted: 7/20/04 at 3:40pmCaptain 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
--Aristotle
ponine24601
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/03
#4re: Favorite Roles
Posted: 7/20/04 at 3:45pm
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
MauveRose
Chorus Member Joined: 1/21/04
#5re: Favorite Roles
Posted: 7/20/04 at 5:09pmDebra 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. ;)
aspiringguy715
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/04
#6re: Favorite Roles
Posted: 7/20/04 at 5:14pm
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)
#7re: Favorite Roles
Posted: 7/20/04 at 5:21pm
Annie Oakley-Annie Get Your Gun
Roxie-Chicago
and Benjamin in The Yellow Boat
"Did you know that if you take the first two vowels in Olive and rearrange them it spells I-Love?"-Spelling Bee
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Kelliexo90
Broadway Star Joined: 7/17/04
#8re: Favorite Roles
Posted: 7/20/04 at 5:23pm
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.
AnothaPartofMe
Broadway Star Joined: 5/22/04
#9re: Favorite Roles
Posted: 7/20/04 at 5:55pm
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
Broadway Star Joined: 12/31/69
#11re: Favorite Roles
Posted: 7/20/04 at 6:07pm
Guinevere- Camelot
Maria- WSS
Robin- Godspell
Dolly- Hello Dolly
Annie- Oklahoma
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
Updated On: 7/20/04 at 06:07 PM
jcr279
Stand-by Joined: 9/15/03
#12re: Favorite Roles
Posted: 7/20/04 at 6:07pm
Louie in "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?"
and the Younger Man in "Putting It Together"
broadwaybaby654
Featured Actor Joined: 6/21/04
#14re: Favorite Roles
Posted: 7/20/04 at 6:42pm
Reverend Mother-Sound of Music
Lead Doo-Wop-LSOH
Eponine-Les Miz(but it was a concert)
jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#16re: Favorite Roles
Posted: 7/20/04 at 7:07pm
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
#17re: Favorite Roles
Posted: 7/20/04 at 7:07pm
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.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
Paul LW
Featured Actor Joined: 6/17/04
#18re: Favorite Roles
Posted: 7/20/04 at 7:08pm
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
LittleBroken
Chorus Member Joined: 7/20/04
#19re: Favorite Roles
Posted: 7/20/04 at 11:37pm
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.
judy_in_disguise
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/31/04
#20re: Favorite Roles
Posted: 7/20/04 at 11:43pm
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 
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#21re: Favorite Roles
Posted: 7/20/04 at 11:49pmSally- YAGMCB whats better than being a dumb blonde and doing it Cheno style?
Clarinetbiter135
Leading Actor Joined: 6/16/04
#22re: Favorite Roles
Posted: 7/21/04 at 12:00am
Clarinet1 in My Fair Lady and Clarinet2/Bass Clarinet/Alto Clarinet in Into the Woods.
Sorry. I was feeling left out....
#23re: Favorite Roles
Posted: 7/21/04 at 1:19am
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.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
#24re: Favorite Roles
Posted: 7/21/04 at 2:37amAction in West Side Story - that was a good time
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