Have you ever played two completely different parts in the same musical?

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Have you ever played two completely different parts in the same musical?

Posted: 7/24/05 at 4:36pm

I'm just wondering. The person playing Reno in my production of Anything Goes was Hope in the same show a few months ago. And the girl playing Whitney (don't ask) was an Angel last time she was in Anything Goes.

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re: Have you ever played two completely different parts in the same musical

Posted: 7/24/05 at 5:20pm

My theater group was to do OOTI this summer (long story short, we didnt do any show). The kid that was to play Daniel played Papa Ge a few years ago in his high school's production.

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re: Have you ever played two completely different parts in the same musical

Posted: 7/24/05 at 5:26pm

this beats all...at least the first 2, lol...

my friend played peter pan AND wendy...hahahaha.

and peter pan was only 2 years after wendy

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Posted: 7/24/05 at 8:36pm

I have not. But my friend has played both Grace and Mrs. Hannigan in Annie.

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Posted: 7/24/05 at 8:46pm

was in the chorus in once upon a mattress the 1st time and the wizard the 2nd

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Posted: 7/24/05 at 11:01pm

did rocky horror twice, once as riff raff (which i'll admit i was not all that great at) and more recently as brad, that is definately a switch

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Posted: 7/24/05 at 11:06pm

Have been in four different productions of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (don't ask)
1st time played Simeon
2nd time played in the Kids'Chorus
3rd time played Ishmaelite
4th time was stage manager

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Posted: 7/24/05 at 11:33pm

Guys and Dolls~Sky Masterson, then Nicely-Nicely
The Wizard of Oz~Tinman, then Scarecrow, then Scarecrow again
R&H's Cinderella~Prince, then Ensemble at an Equity theatre

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Updated On: 7/24/05 at 11:33 PM

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Posted: 7/24/05 at 11:39pm

Try playing 4 completely different roles in the same show...

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Posted: 7/25/05 at 12:24am

i've done that sorta when i was in annie, well actually 2 but on completely different ends of the spectrum. i swapped from a filthy bum in hooverville to an elderly aristocrat in a tux and overcoat for nyc

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Posted: 7/25/05 at 12:32am

Well, in the same production, yes. I played quite a few roles in BIG RIVER and in JOSEPH...

And I was in THE WIZARD OF OZ twice - the first time as an apple tree and the second as the tin man.

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Posted: 7/25/05 at 1:27am

i did three roles in a show once.

my middle school production of SMILE, i was heidi's father, the announcer at the pageant, and also the priestjudge, Father Murphy. Wasn't hard, but had to dye my hair backstage, and that wasn't much fun. especially with a middle school backstage area, which was as tiny as a closet.

Updated On: 7/25/05 at 01:27 AM

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Posted: 7/25/05 at 2:45am

how about being the understudy for tessie or mazeppa in gypsy while having perviously played tulsa????i didn't know what to think when that happened to me but it was a blast

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Posted: 7/25/05 at 3:25am

I was Reuben, Potiphar and the Butler in the one production of Joseph. It got kind of confusing at times.

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Posted: 7/25/05 at 8:50am

Matt and El Gallo in THE FANTASTICKS, twenty years apart.

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Posted: 7/25/05 at 9:05am

I was Matt and then a Father in THE FANTATICKS.

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Posted: 7/25/05 at 10:18am

Jesus and Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar
Charlie Brown and Snoopy in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead

As for shows where I've played more than one role in the same production, there's been Grease (Teen Angel and Vince Fontaine), The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (if that one counts), and Little Shop of Horrors (Orin and almost all of the minor roles).

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Posted: 7/25/05 at 1:07pm

I have done Joseph about four times, Reuben (sang Canaan Days), musically directed, Directed/musically directed/Baker (all in one show), and then the last time I musically directed it.

Have done the sound of Music four times-Baron Eberfeld/Admiral VonSchreiber (while understudying the Capt), Musically directed the show, then Capt/co-musical director, and Capt./co-musical director.

Have done Crazy for You twice, first time I was Bobby, and the second time I was Moose

Updated On: 7/25/05 at 01:07 PM