She is in the quintet (gorgeous), also has solo stuff in "No Good Can Come From Bad" and sings one of the leads on "Ceylon". Her scenes are all really fun, she's a spitfire, is a candidate for murderer, detective, and lover (so you have to learn your song/scene for each scenario, and each possible matchup of rlovers - fun times) aaaaand you can pretty mcuh guarantee you'll be voted as a lover every night if you're doing it right.
When I played the role, the only two nights I WASN'T voted as a lover was becuse one night I was voted the detective, and the other night another girls' family was in the audience, so we really played her up with the crowd to vote for her all night.
It's all listed in the notes as to why people vote for her, I can't remmeber why, but it says directly that for the girl the audience will alway svote for Helena, as evidenced by the fact that the audience voted for a detective (in our production) one nighit who had lost his voice during the show so he bowed out and they did a revote and I was chosen. Random. I think partially cause they think voting for the twins as lovers will be funny, but i never got voted with my twin.
Overall the role is LOADS of fun, especially cause you can get revenge for any crappy dialect roles you've had to do that have tortured you, as this one (dialect) is supposed to be bad and not geographically traceable or accurate, so you can just have the time of your life with it! It was also a great opportunity for me to learn more about improv and really playing it up with the audience, and to take different risks in the show and in audience interaction to try to sway them different ways each night (in terms of voting results).
Congratulations!! I had a blast and it's definitely on my list of roles I'd love to play again one day.
If I show you the darkness I hold inside, will you bring me to light?
