If you could play ONE role on Broadway........
re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........#100
Posted: 6/20/06 at 2:12pm
Sweeney todd for sure. I adore the show and sing it well imo and I even have a mrs. lovett to costar with me: broadwayworld's own prisoner 24601.
And if I cant play sweeney I will kill to play Molina in spiderwoman. Hopefully in a few years ( say like 5 or so) Cathrine Zeta Jonews will revive it and they can cast me
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........#101
Posted: 6/20/06 at 5:16pmHands Down I would KILL to be Mimi from RENT
re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........#102
Posted: 6/20/06 at 5:46pmThe Engineer in Miss Saigon.
re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........#103
Posted: 6/20/06 at 5:54pm
I would love to play:
Maureen from RENT
Cathy from The Last Five Years
Eponine from Les Mis
There are way too many to choose from!
re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........#104
Posted: 6/20/06 at 6:02pmCount Fosco in THE WOMAN IN WHITE
"I'm not in Bambi and I'm not blonde!" - Idina Menzel
re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........#105
Posted: 6/20/06 at 6:08pmMrs. Lovett from Sweeney Todd
re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........#106
Posted: 6/20/06 at 6:35pmBecause of the whole ethnicity thing, I'd never get to play the roles I would love (Glinda, Aida, Tracey, The Witch, Maria) but I have to go back to what I loved as a teen; Kim in Miss Saigon. That's also highly unlikely, but a girl can dream!
re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........#107
Posted: 6/20/06 at 6:35pmThe Phantom or Raoul
re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........#108
Posted: 6/20/06 at 7:04pm
Janet Van De Graaf/Jane Roberts in The Drowsy Chaperone
Norma in Victor/Victoria
re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........#109
Posted: 6/20/06 at 7:48pm
Amneris- Aida
Mimi- Rent
Joined: 12/31/69
re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........#110
Posted: 6/20/06 at 7:52pm

Boq from Wicked
or
Corny Collins/Any of the Male Council members (minus Link, I could never) in Hairspray
Updated On: 6/20/06 at 07:52 PM
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........#111
Posted: 6/20/06 at 8:26pm
Dexter in "Thoroughly Modern Millie".
Ok, I know I have no talent, but I can put on a suit and play that old guy in the restaurant scene where Trevor gets stood up and drunk, and I get to say "sixteen years". My dream is to some day do it in community theatre just to be a part of it.
This role, and several others in the show, was created by Casey Nicholaw who went on to bigger and better things.
re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........#112
Posted: 6/20/06 at 8:38pmI'd wanna be Idina Menzel.
Chorus Member Joined: 4/6/06
re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........#113
Posted: 6/20/06 at 8:40pmId play as Tracy Turnblad of Elphaba
Chorus Member Joined: 4/6/06
re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........#114
Posted: 6/20/06 at 8:40pmId play as Tracy Turnblad of Elphaba
Stand-by Joined: 5/28/06
re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........#115
Posted: 6/21/06 at 2:03amBud Frump in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........#116
Posted: 6/21/06 at 3:17am
Smitty - How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying!
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........#117
Posted: 6/21/06 at 4:06amOscar in Sweet Charity
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........#118
Posted: 6/21/06 at 4:34am
neddyfrank2, we think alike!
I've played Oscar in Sweet Charity, but that role fits me so damn perfectly in all aspects (characterization, vocal part, etc.), so I would love to do it in the next revival in twenty years.
I know it said "ONE role", but if I were a female, my one role would be Elphaba in Wicked.
But if Brian Charles Rooney ever did get cast as Elphaba, I would make sure that I got to understudy him/standby for him/replace him! I can DEFINITELY play that role!
re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........#119
Posted: 6/21/06 at 9:36am
Oh God Oh God. I can't pick between The Baker's Wife (Into The Woods) or The Toast of Mayfair, SALLY BOWLES (Cabaret.) Good Lord. They are the reason for the season.
If I were a (rich) man, I would play Angel from Rent. KAPOW.
NYC PART III: 24 sleeps!
Andre:I'll miss you.
Muriel: You will?
Andre: Only if you leave.
re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........#120
Posted: 6/21/06 at 9:53amAt the age I'm at now It would be Billy Elliot, later probably Jean Valjean.
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........#121
Posted: 6/21/06 at 7:14pm
One? Just one? *lip trembles*
I can't do it. I'm sorry.
Fantine - Les Miserables
Norma Desmond - Sunset Boulevard
Maria - West Side Story
Anna - The King And I
If I were a guy:
Judas - Jesus Christ Superstar
Narrator - Blood Brothers
Of all the roles I've listed, I think Anna is the most feasible one for me. I'm too soprano for Fantine, too young for Norma, too white for Maria and too female for Judas (although nothing ever said the Narrator *had* to be a guy, now I think about it...). But really! Just one indeed. XD
Updated On: 6/21/06 at 07:14 PM
re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........#122
Posted: 6/21/06 at 7:50pm
Eek...picking just one is hard.
But, in the end...Eliza Doolittle.
Joined: 12/31/69
re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........#123
Posted: 6/21/06 at 10:34pmHorace in Miss Liberty
re: If you could play ONE role on Broadway........#124
Posted: 6/21/06 at 10:46pm
Roy Johnson in Light in the Piazza. I just can't explain it. It's just such an emotional and somewhat evil role.
(I say screw the rules, too)
Rod/Princeton in Avenue Q is another. It could happen since I have training in puppetry...I just need to become handsome and loose about fifteen pounds. Or Brian, if I decide not to loose some weight. :P
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