Chorus Member Joined: 11/12/03
I've been in :
~ A Day In Hollywood, A Night In The Ukraine (Nina)
~ Wizard Of OZ (Scarecrow)
~ Annie (Annie)
~ The ThreePenny Opera (Jenny)
~ And soon to be doing in March HAIR
What experiences has everyone else had?
Tommy- Ensemble
West Side Story- Tony
Godspell- Nicky (Or Jeffrey, as he is called in the original)
Dr. Jekyll and MR. Hyde (The Play)- Dr. Henry Jekyll
Oklahoma- Ike Skidmore
Featured Actor Joined: 10/22/03
several....
favorites...
John Hinckley--Assassins
Will Parker--Oklahoma!
Jack--Into the Woods
Joseph--Joseph...Dreamcoat
Scarecrow--Wizard of Oz
Lancelot--Camelot
Prince (ugh)--R&H Cinderella
incidentally, my favorite role is non-musical--Tom Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie.
I've been doing theater for almost 11 years so I won't name everything but here's a few
~The Wizard of Oz-Munchkin-1994
~Fiddler on the Roof-Little Chava-1995
~Seven Brides for Seven Brothers-Little Dorcas-1996
~Aladdin-Genie of the Jewels-1998
~Bye Bye Birdie-Alice-1999
~Annie-Kate-1999
~You're A Good Man Charlie Brown-Woodstock-2000
~Peter Pan-Indian-2000
~BIG-Kids chorus-2001
~Working-Waitress-4th place in the state of Michigan 2002
~Peter Pan-Wendy-2002
~Annie Get Your Gun-Annie Oakley-2002
~Chicago-Roxie Hart-2nd place in the state of Michigan 2003
and hopefully Into the Woods and South Pacific in March and May
Chorus Member Joined: 11/12/03
Thats so awesome. I love hearing what everyone has been doing.
Hugo Peabody in "Bye Bye Birdie" is the main one. I was just Leroy Herdman in "The Best Christmas Pagaent Ever."
Heres the past few shoes I've done:
*Christine Penmark- BAD SEED
*Cookie Cusak- RUMORS
Mrs. Chumley- HARVEY
Liesl von Trapp- THE SOUND OF MUSIC
Nancy/Ensemble- BYE BYE BIRDIE
*Issachar/Dancer- JOSEPH...DREAMCOAT
Red Hook Neighbor-A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE- I learned so much about acting from this show and watching professional actors every night increased my own abilities and made me think about things I never use to think about on the stage
Munchkin/Principle Dancer- THE WIZARD OF OZ
and lots of ensemble roles
* My Favorite Roles- I like the straight acting better than musical theatre- I'm really self consicious about singing on my own
I love being in ensemble- Favorite Ensemble show was JOSEPH and BYE BYE BIRDIE and yes I was a boy in the JOSEPH- it was so excellent!
Theatre is so much fun!
What's everybody's current show? I'm doing HONK! now- haha, its wierd but fun to be animals and all. Haha.
Broadway Star Joined: 12/31/69
Huck - Big River
Joseph - Joseph
Curly Oklahoma
Danny - Grease
Brad - Rocky Horror
Marcellus - Music Man
Rolf - Sound of Music
Rooster - Annie
Capt Hook - Peter Pan
Lion - Wiz ( yes a white lion, who sang like a big black man! )
Perchick - Fiddler on the Roof
Ensemble - Evita
Ensemble - Carousel
Peter - Jesus Christ Superstar
Albert - Bye Bye Birdie
Buzz - Finian's Rainbow
Updated On: 11/24/03 at 06:14 PM
Nice list of shows!
I just started college, so most of these shows are chorus roles due to the fact that the directors played favorites and that there were HUGE amounts of talent at my very large high school.
The Man Who Came to Dinner - Maggie
Anything Goes! - reporter
Joseph and the Amazing... - chorus
Nights of Broadway (review show) - chorus
Les Miserables - Whore 1/chorus
Footloose - Bickle
Footloose (yes, I've done it twice) - teen chorus
Words and Music: 2001 Tony Awards (review show) - teen chorus
Words and Music: 2003 Tony Awards (review show) - featured soloist (sang "On My Own")
Right now I'm a stewardess in "Titanic"--it's a fun show so far, and I can't wait until we start blocking :)
*.*.*. MUSICALS .*.*.*
Fiddler On The Roof - Mendel
The Wiz - Crow (hehe!)
Annie - Rooster
Sound of Music - Rolf
Damn Yankees - Baseball Player (Vernon)
Joseph... - Judah
Bye Bye Birdie - Harvey Johnson/Quartet
Annie Get Your Gun - (Not yet, but hopefully Frank! We'll see when rehearsals come.)
*.*.*. Plays .*.*.*
Harvey (Comedy) - Dr. Sanderson
Rumors (Comedy) - Lenny Ganz
Bad Seed (Drama) - Reginald Tasker
...and other smaller stuff.
Notice how many were with Elphie..
To Gillian On Her 37th Birthday- Aunt Esther & Rachel (2 sep. times)
Anything Goes -Ensemble
H2$ - Secretary
42nd St - Ensemble (should of been dorothy..big story)
Pippin - Ensemble
Damn Yankees - Teen Fan / Ensemble
The Music Man - Gracie Shinn
West Side Story - Graziella
Fiddler On The Roof - Chava
Carousel- Mill Girl/Dancer
Annie - Servant /NYC Girl
You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown - Sally (Revival)
Anne Frank And Me - Anne Frank
My Fair Lady - Servant / Ensemble
Little Shop Of Horrors - Doo Wop Girl
Lost In Yonkers - Aunt Gert
Electra - Electra
The Odd Couple - Florence
Isn’t It Romantic - Harriet
Laundry And Bourbon - Hattie
Spoon River Anthologies - Various Players
The Middle Ages - Elenor
You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown - Lucy/Patty U/S
And in a bunch of concert versions of shows...
"Louise" In Gypsy, "Audrey" In Little Shop , "Lily" In Annie & Now we are doing "SNOOPY" and im SALLY
let me just add almost all of these are high school/community theatre shows lol...
Updated On: 11/24/03 at 07:00 PM
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
same goes for me Amneris, lol
Cheers to that.
PIRATES OF PENZANCE -- Played The Pirate King twice. Once in a traditional production, once in the Papp 1980 production. The latter is MUCH more fun!!
R & H CINDERELLA -- agreeing with the 'ugh' from above.
SECRET GARDEN -- Played Lt. Wright once and then played Dickon last winter. (A 6 foot 5 twenty-nine year-old Dickon, I might add. But, hey, I had the right voice.)
DREAMGIRLS -- The Pat Boone guy and ensemble parts.
MOBY DICK -- A workshop of the Doug Katsaros/Mark St. Germain sung thru show and I played Elijah.
SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH BOREDOM -- Soldier and Alex.
THE WHO'S TOMMY -- The Minister and the Hawker. (same show.)
GODSPELL -- Judas/John the Baptist
IS THERE LIFE AFTER HIGH SCHOOL? -- The 'High School All Over Again' guy. (Worst. Song. Ever. by the way.)
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR -- Peter
THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW -- Two years as Narrator
Ensemble stuff in 110 IN THE SHADE, did PERSONALS, a play of ANASTASIA .. I think that's about it. Nothing going on now, some people want me to play The Dentist in a local production of LITTLE SHOP in February but I'm not sure I want to do it.
Most recently it was Angie/Farmboy in "Gypsy" and before that in chronological order:
Bird Puppeteer...INTO THE WOODS
The Tin Man...THE WIZARD OF OZ
Ensemble/Clipboard Boy...FORTY SECOND STREET
The Prince...SNOW WHITE
James Keller...THE MIRACLE WORKER
Judah/Dancer...JOSEPH
Friedrich...THE SOUND OF MUSIC
Currently I'm about to start "MARY POPPINS" and I'm going to be playing Mr. Banks and I'm also going to be the dance captain, and I find out about "THE OUTSIDERS" casting tomorrow at school!
Stand-by Joined: 9/15/03
Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up- Louie
Bye Bye Birdie- male quartet
My Fair Lady- male quartet
Annie Get Your Gun- male quartet
Oklahoma- Fred
Fiddler On the Roof- ensemble
Man Of La Mancha- Enselmo
Jesus Christ Superstar- Simon Z.
Big River- Dick/Lafe
Carousel- ensemble
ANYTHING GOES! - Billy Crocker
FOR PETE'S SAKE! (Off-Broadway Show) - Swing
FOOTLOOSE - Ren
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR - Judas
THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW - Riff Raff
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS - Voice of Audrey 2
GREASE - Kenickie
GODSPELL - Jeffery
OLIVER - Dodger
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY - Mike TV
YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN - Schroeder
BUGSY MALONE - Bugsy
ALADDIN - Teenage Aladdin
PETER PAN - John Darling
ALICE IN WONDERLAND - The Doormouse
Non-Musicals: BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS (Eugene), KING LEAR (The Fool)
Recently I have only done play but the few musicals I have done:
Frenchie-Grease
Dorothy-The Wizard Of Oz (I was 13)
Ensemble/teen in Bye Bye Birdie
and 5 years of The Nutcracker
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
Cressida (Troilus and Cressida)
Servant to Olivia/Officer (Twelfth Night)
Puck (Midsummer Nights Dream)
Golde (Fiddler on the Roof)
Katherine (Pippin)
Mother (Barefoot in the Park)
Pat (Li'l Abner)
Elma Blue (Divorce Southern Style.... and you thought Up the Down Staircase was bad....)
She (Epilogue)
The Actress (The Illusion of a Fantasy)
The Baker's Wife (Into the Woods)
Piccoloist (The Music Man)
Zaneeta (another production of The Music Man)
Emma (The Magic Flute: An Awfully Big Adventure)
Hillary (J'Accuse)
The Baroness (The Sound of Music.... yes, the quote from The Opposite of Sex was my mantra during that show)
Meg (Brigadoon)
I won't mention the role I played in The Wizard of Oz.... So many painful memories....
I should also mention that I'm hopefully going to reach a point by the end of sophomore year where I'm giving more of a bent to playwrighting (since that's when I'll start doing studio shows each semester) and dabbling in some design. I like the backstage life of an actor, but I'm a terribly lazy, undisciplined person. I'm also a terrible smoker which doesn't help me explore texts vocally.
And I love how between the bulk of us on this board, we could re-enact several shows.
And I love that our Mr. Parker played a Jodi Foster obsessive (I used to use Lynette's part of "Unworthy of Your Love" for audition songs, before I got the sheet music for "How Did I End Up Here" and "My Simple Christmas Wish")
Updated On: 11/25/03 at 11:13 PM
fiddler on the roof-chorus
fiddler on the roof-motel
wizard of oz-munchkin
anything goes-chorus
anything goes-sailor
bye bye birdie-hugo
my one and only-chorus
guys and dolls-chorus
joseph-ruben
merrily we roll along-chorus
kiss me kate-chorus
Updated On: 11/24/03 at 11:34 PM
Musicals:
Grease-Eugene
The Music Man-Marcellus Washburn
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat-Zebulon (One More Angel in Heaven solo)
The Dastardly Doctor Devereux-Patient/hospital worker
She Loves Me-Detective Keller
Carousel-Policeman/Ensemble
most recently I was in Chicago where I was Amos Hart.
plays:
Look Homeward, Angel-Jake Clatt
A Dolls House (special adaptation)-Dr. Rank
right now I am in "Round O and Crooked S" as Dr. Quilt. This is a brand new play and has never been produced before.
Next semester we're doing "The Mystery of Edwin Drood"
Featured Actor Joined: 5/20/03
Ok -
Oliver - Oliver (15, in high school)
Once Upon a Mattress - Lady Larkin
The Secret Garden - Colin (17 yrs old - had to use tape.)
Guys & Dolls - Myrna
A Christmas Carol - Caroler
Carmen - Mercedes
Big River - Simon/Ensemble (incidently, I was 2 months pregnant playing a teenage boy. Then I was a "call girl" in another number. Fun!)
Brigadoon - Soloist/Ensemble
Children of Eden - Yonah
Gypsy - June
Once On This Island - Andrea
Fiddler on the Roof - Hodel (2 times. Once in HS, the other time for a community theatre and I met my husband during that production. He was my Perchik, and we got engaged closing night during the scene where Perchik proposes to Hodel. Got a standing O in the middle of the show.)
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