If given the chance to be any role in any musical...
If given the chance to be any role in any musical...
#0If given the chance to be any role in any musical...
Posted: 7/30/04 at 3:10amWho would you be?
Silence seemed the only way.
Now I understand it's cost.
#1re: If given the chance to be any role in any musical...
Posted: 7/30/04 at 3:17amTobias Ragg~SWEENEY TODD
"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.
Type_A_Tiff
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/25/04
#2re: If given the chance to be any role in any musical...
Posted: 7/30/04 at 3:27amRoger in Rent, the Phantom of the Opera (if I could warp genders), a lead in Wicked (solely because I want to have a Sephora makeup line made in my honour), but really, I think one of the best Broadway roles out there is (I know it's not a musical), Catherine in Proof.
"It's not always about you!!!" (But if you think I'm referring to you anyway, then I probably am.)
"Good luck returning my ass!" - Wilhemina Slater
"This is my breakfast, lunch and f***ing dinner right here. I'm not even f***in' joking." - Colin Farrell
"Good luck returning my ass!" - Wilhemina Slater
"This is my breakfast, lunch and f***ing dinner right here. I'm not even f***in' joking." - Colin Farrell
Broadway Matt
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/17/03
#3re: If given the chance to be any role in any musical...
Posted: 7/30/04 at 4:16am
Burrs in Lippa's "Wild Party"- most fun to sing
Cal in "The Fix"- most fun to act
Guido Contini in "Nine"- most fun to do night after night
"The last train out of any station will not be full of nice guys." - Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
"I wash my face, then drink beer, then I weep. Say a prayer and induce insincere self-abuse, till I'm fast asleep"- In Trousers
leomaxfrank
Broadway Star Joined: 3/19/04
#4re: If given the chance to be any role in any musical...
Posted: 7/30/04 at 4:38am
if i have to pick one...that's where the difficulty lies..
if i can choose however many i want, there are tons of threads that do so.
dream role for my type now -
jamie - L5Y
tobias - sweeney
future dream role: when i am a bit longer in the tooth 
-
leo frank - parade
whizzer - falsettos
bobby - company
george - SITPWG
But I won't live alone in a house of regret.
Updated On: 7/30/04 at 04:38 AM
broadwaybaby654
Featured Actor Joined: 6/21/04
#5re: If given the chance to be any role in any musical...
Posted: 7/30/04 at 4:53am
Eponine has been my dream role since I was 10!!!
others...
Elfie-wicked
G(a)linda-wicked
Millie-tmm
Hope-urinetown
Amneris-aida
Christine-poto
Ellen-miss saigon
Link Larkin Wanabe
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#6re: If given the chance to be any role in any musical...
Posted: 7/30/04 at 5:09am
Link Larkin, Seymour Krebourn, Mark Cohen, Motel Kamzoil, Jimmy (TMM), Mother's Younger Brother (Ragtime)
Akiva
Updated On: 7/30/04 at 05:09 AM
#7re: If given the chance to be any role in any musical...
Posted: 7/30/04 at 5:30am
Younger Brother in Ragtime... except I'm African-American. It would have to be a production that played on the themes through race reversal.
I also wouldn't mind standing in for Billy Flynn during "Both Reached for the Gun." I'm not sure that I care to sing "All I Care About" or "Razzle Dazzle."
#8re: If given the chance to be any role in any musical...
Posted: 7/30/04 at 12:20pm
Hook/Mr. Darling in Peter Pan
Captain Von Trapp (just to sing Edelweiss at the end of the show)
Sweeney Todd
Skaar(sp?) in Lion King
thats just the tip of the iceberg...
"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!"
Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!
Updated On: 7/30/04 at 12:20 PM
#9re: If given the chance to be any role in any musical...
Posted: 7/30/04 at 12:34pm
tracy in hairspray
audrey in lsoh
elphie in wicked
maureen in rent
sophie in mamma mia
nadia or ivy ion bare
"gimme a bottle of bourbon and half a chicken and i'll conquer the world!"
Updated On: 7/30/04 at 12:34 PM
#10re: If given the chance to be any role in any musical...
Posted: 7/30/04 at 12:48pmit would all depend on my mood. right now my mood says Carla in NINE. but i think i would want to be Velma in CHICAGO because it was her performance that made me really want to be on the stage.
Thou giveth fever.
#11re: If given the chance to be any role in any musical...
Posted: 7/30/04 at 12:53pm
if I were a woman -- Evita
since I am not Bobby in Company
"Sir K, the Viscount of Uppity-shire...." -- kissmycookie
#12re: If given the chance to be any role in any musical...
Posted: 7/30/04 at 1:04pm
Grizabella--CATS
Eponine--Les Mis
Little Sally or Hope Cladwell--Urinetown
Ulla--The Producers
Audrey--LSOH
Desiree--A Little Night Music
The Witch--Into The Woods
Belle--B&tB
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#13re: If given the chance to be any role in any musical...
Posted: 7/30/04 at 1:21pm
Josh - Big
Baker - Into the Woods
Marvin - Falsettos
Leo - Parade
Mark - Rent
Younger Brother - Ragtime
Stine - City of Angels
Guillaume - Martin Guerre
Bobby - Urinetown
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
Updated On: 7/30/04 at 01:21 PM
robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#14re: If given the chance to be any role in any musical...
Posted: 7/30/04 at 1:23pm
If I had to choose (I've have a much longer list of 'straight' plays I'd like to do...I find them more challenging), I'd have to go with Caroline Thibbedeaux.
Yes...I'm a white boy...but you did say 'any'.
"I'm so looking forward to a time when all the Reagan Democrats are dead."
B.B. Wolf
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/26/04
#15re: If given the chance to be any role in any musical...
Posted: 7/30/04 at 1:30pmEnjolras(Les Mis); Sid Sorokin(Pajama Game); Don Quixote(La mancha); Billy Bigelow(Carousel); Anthony(Sweeney); The Phantom(Webber or Kopit's); The Russian(Chess); and Albin in La Cage even though I'm way too young for both it and several of the roles listed above. But, gay or straight, who DOESN"T want to sing I Am What I Am in front of a receptive audience!?! That song RULES!
Word. Word, indeed.
#16re: If given the chance to be any role in any musical...
Posted: 7/30/04 at 1:41pm
hmmmmmmmmm a few of these ive already done but id do anything to do it all over
eponine-les mis
any white female in rent
an extra in lion king or 42nd street
leisel (yea i probably spelled that wrong) in sound of music
jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#17re: If given the chance to be any role in any musical...
Posted: 7/30/04 at 3:33pm
my current ones are
max bialystock
and captain hook
"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
#18re: If given the chance to be any role in any musical...
Posted: 7/30/04 at 4:18pm
Christine -POTO
Elphaba (or Glinda) in Wicked
Amneris - Aida
Velma - Chicago
"Life will be frozen peaches and cream.
Baby, dream Your Dream" ~ SC
Updated On: 7/30/04 at 04:18 PM
#19re: If given the chance to be any role in any musical...
Posted: 7/30/04 at 5:12pm
Mother in Ragtime
Lilli/Kate in KMK
Eve in Children of Eden
Lucille in Parade
Evita in Evita
Julie Jordan in Carousel....I think that sums up the biggies
"Did you know that if you take the first two vowels in Olive and rearrange them it spells I-Love?"-Spelling Bee
"It's night like this that hotel bars were specifically made." Light In The Piazza
#20re: If given the chance to be any role in any musical...
Posted: 7/30/04 at 5:22pm
Cathy-The Last 5 Years
Lucille-Parade
Millie-TMM
Amneris-Aida
Susan-TTB
Lilli/Kate-KMK
GovernorSlaton
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/04
#21re: If given the chance to be any role in any musical...
Posted: 7/30/04 at 5:26pm
Edgar-Bat Boy
Sweeney-Sweeney Todd
Jack-Into the Woods
Bobby-Urinetown (and Company, I guess)
Hapgood-Anyone Can Whistle
John-john and jen
SCMmom
Chorus Member Joined: 5/1/04
#22re: If given the chance to be any role in any musical...
Posted: 7/30/04 at 5:45pm
in order my top 4 is
1. belle - beauty and the beast
2. amneris - aida
3. kate monster - ave q
4.millie - thorouly modern millie
#23re: If given the chance to be any role in any musical...
Posted: 7/30/04 at 5:54pm
The Emcee in Cabaret
Tobias in Sweeny
"And it's mean and ugly..." NPH describing the world in 'Take me to the world' from Evening Primrose
#24re: If given the chance to be any role in any musical...
Posted: 7/30/04 at 5:57pm
IN ORDER
1. Millie-Thoroughly Modern Millie
2. G(a)linda-Wicked
3. Eponine-Les Miserable
4. Eliza-My Fair Lady
5. Tracy-Hairspray
6. Audrey-Little Shop of Horrors
7. Kate Monster-Avenue Q
8. Maureen-Rent
9. Christine-The Phantom of the Opera
10. Velma-Chicago
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