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If you could play ONE role on Broadway........
icantbelive
Featured Actor Joined: 5/5/06
#50re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........
Posted: 6/14/06 at 7:41amThe Leading Player in Pippin. I would love to be kind of the evil one. I would also like to be Louis from Pippin and prance around the stage like an idiot
#51re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........
Posted: 6/14/06 at 9:01amEponine....no question!
fiesta1
Stand-by Joined: 11/20/03
#52re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........
Posted: 6/14/06 at 9:14am
I've played Louis in Pippin before (it was a blast). But I would love to play Effie some day. Too bad I'm a white musclebear.
broadwaybaby221
Featured Actor Joined: 12/26/05
#53re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........
Posted: 6/14/06 at 11:34amProbably Eponine in Les Mis. That's such a hard question, though, when three or four come to mind.
#54re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........
Posted: 6/14/06 at 11:45amthats a hard one, i would say either, Penny in Hairspray, Rafiki in Lion King, Maureen in Rent or Glinda in Wicked, they all look really fun.
Nycboi23
Understudy Joined: 4/25/06
#55re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........
Posted: 6/14/06 at 11:49amJulia in the Wedding Singer and when I'm suppose to start singing "Someday", I'd sing "Right On Time" instead and watch the crowd go crazy over the song.
NYC4Life
Broadway Star Joined: 1/23/06
#56re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........
Posted: 6/14/06 at 12:22pm
Brick Pollitt in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Chris in Miss Saigon
LadyLizaElliott
Swing Joined: 5/21/06
#57re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........
Posted: 6/14/06 at 1:08pm
Liza Elliott in "Lady in the Dark" for female..
Male: I'd have to say...Javert in Les Miserables
ThankstoPhantom
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/05
#58re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........
Posted: 6/14/06 at 1:15pm
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and a few others (if I am allowed to cheat! :)
Tobias in Sweeney Todd
Javert in Les Miz
#59re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........
Posted: 6/14/06 at 1:22pm
I too can't just pick one...here are my top 3
1. Velma Kelly
2. Millie Dillmount
3. Sally Bowles
broadwayboy1939
Stand-by Joined: 5/23/05
#60re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........
Posted: 6/14/06 at 1:24pm
I am a boy, but would love to be Tracy in Hairspray!! :)
My boy role would be: Zanna in Zanna Don't!
NYC4Life
Broadway Star Joined: 1/23/06
#61re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........
Posted: 6/14/06 at 1:27pmDoes anyone read or see plays?
rosiecabaret
Swing Joined: 4/17/06
#62re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........
Posted: 6/14/06 at 1:33pm
I would love to play Belle in "Beauty and the Beast." I love that show and I'm such a Disney kid! 
cate_w
Stand-by Joined: 10/6/04
#63re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........
Posted: 6/14/06 at 1:36pmI know it's not a big role, but for some reason I have always wanted to be Ellen in Miss Saigon. I would also want to be Jo in Little Women.
#64re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........
Posted: 6/14/06 at 1:46pm
J.
Pierrepont.
Finch.
#65re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........
Posted: 6/14/06 at 1:49pmI honestly can't decide between Don Q in Man of La Mancha, Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, and Arthur in Camelot...(not to mention Hook in Peter Pan)...I'm flummoxed.
#66re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........
Posted: 6/14/06 at 1:49pmAs much as I ADORE musicals....I'd nearly sell my soul to play Nicholas Nickleby in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. I saw it live twice, and then bought the video set (sanctioned). I've seen it at least a dozen times, and I think it would be the ULTIMATE challenge!
#68re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........
Posted: 6/14/06 at 4:37pmI want to be the first male Norma Desmond. I'd also love a crack at playing Chita Rivera in The Dancer's Life. :) Maybe I could be her understudy. Hell, who am I kidding. Chita is still more fit that I ever was. She can dance circles around me. It's a nice fantasy though.
#69re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........
Posted: 6/14/06 at 4:43pm
Christine Daae from PHANTOM or
Glinda/Elphaba in WICKED
YessicaB
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/05
#70re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........
Posted: 6/14/06 at 4:53pm
Play: Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Musical: Cathy in The Last 5 Years, Celie in Color Purple or The Witch in Into the Woods...
#71re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........
Posted: 6/14/06 at 5:01pmjanet van de graff in drowsy,but i could never do that split that sutton does without really hurting myself,christine from phantom and maria in west side story
#72re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........
Posted: 6/14/06 at 6:57pmHonestly, I'd be Burrs from Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party. However, since it's off-broadway I would have to go with The Emcee from Cabaret.
#73re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........
Posted: 6/14/06 at 7:10pm
i also cannot choose between three so im going to say i'd be thrilled with either
eponine
elphaba
belle
Reverie
Understudy Joined: 6/3/06
#74re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........
Posted: 6/14/06 at 7:21pm
I would absolutely love to portray Sarah in Ragtime. However, I am lacking quite a bit of color. So, uh, I doubt that would work :)
I would then say Evelyn Nesbit or Mother from Ragtime. What can I say? I love that musical.
jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#75re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........
Posted: 6/14/06 at 9:30pm
keeping in mind i am a total cheater
the wedding singer: standby for robbie hart and glen gulia
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rent: male swing (u/s mark, roger, benny, collins)
ave q: male swing (u/s brian, nickie/trekkie, princeton/rod)
wicked: swing (u/s fiyero, dillamond, wizard, and morrible*)
*with the bulk of that costume and the makeup, i think a male could play it, and give the most terrifying "wiiiiiiiicked witch!" speech this side of alma cuervo
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