Hardest Roles

- Evita
- Fanny Brice
- Baker's Wife ( ITW)
- Diana ( Next to Normal)

But there are countless other treads about the same topic.

Sir and Cocky in THE ROAR OF THE GREASEPAINT, THE SMELL OF THE CROWD each have over 300 lines and at least 11 songs. Both are on stage for over 2.5 hours. The show demands actors play the absurdism of WAITING FOR GODOT, but to gradually evolve into characters that command our pity. No small trick.

Hedwig
Mrs. Lovett

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Bobby Child in Crazy For You ..... 2 1/2 straight hours of singing and dancing your ass off. I saw it in Stratford Canada this summer and that poor guy was dripping in sweat 15 minutes into the show. It was a wonderful show.

Updated On: 9/30/14 at 01:47 AM

Hedwig definitely, possibly the Genie too

I'm a bit surprised at people calling The Witch one of the hardest roles. It's a meaty role, but the Baker's Wife is much harder to pull off if you ask me.

The hard part about playing the Witch is that your practically playing two parts. The old witch is a very different role from the young witch yet they have to seamlessly transform from one to the other.

Matilda and Miss Trunchbull both seem like very hard roles to play.

As much as I hated Jerusalem, I admit Rooster was hard (and Mark Rylance made me see that)

I also think Hedda Gabler is a tough role to do correctly (I've seen a few different versions)
Blanche DuBois is difficult
I think King Lear is (after sitting through enough lackluster productions I find it hard to get right)
King Berenger in Exit the King requires a lot of physicality-it's very taxing (and to Geoffrey Rush's credit he did a brilliant job)
I think BOTH the Witch and the Baker's Wife are equally difficult-the Witch has one of the toughest Sondheim songs to pull off-Last Midnight. I consider it so difficult to get right because it's truly a sung monologue. You need a real actress in the role. The Baker's Wife requires a balance of wit and heart which is tough to find.
Hedwig is hard due to the nature of the piece and the need to maintain that energy level plus a rapport with the audience.
I think Diana in next to normal and Big/Little Edie are very difficult in so many ways.
Don Quixote is very difficult vocally for a male performer

Updated On: 9/24/14 at 10:41 AM