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Pick the Best Musical Theater Comedy Characters

Pick the Best Musical Theater Comedy Characters

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RockyRoad
#0Pick the Best Musical Theater Comedy Characters
Posted: 11/17/04 at 1:37pm

Hi! I'm making a list of the best (meaning well written and emphasis on comedy!) male musical theater comedy characters. Here's my list..please add your suggestions!

Ali Hakim "Oklahoma"
Bella Zangler "Crazy For You"
Mr. MacAfee "Bye, Bye Birdie"
Captain Hook "Peter Pan"

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DancerGirl16
#1re: Pick the Best Musical Theater Comedy Characters
Posted: 11/17/04 at 1:39pm

Mrs Lovette:

"YOUR A CRAZY MAN MR TODD! YOU CAN"T JUST GO KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE FOR NO REASON AT ALL!"

"he was going to black mail me for half of my earnings forever"

"oh well thats a different story....for a minute there I thought you lost your marbles!"


When someone blunders, we say that he makes a misstep. Is it then not clear that all the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill our history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing. - Moliere

WayWicked
#2re: Pick the Best Musical Theater Comedy Characters
Posted: 11/17/04 at 2:29pm

What about Harold Hill in Music Man?

And the guy in "Goodbye Girl".


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CurtainUp
#3re: Pick the Best Musical Theater Comedy Characters
Posted: 11/17/04 at 9:07pm

Mae Peterson - Bye Bye Birdie
Eulalie Shinn - Music Man
Ulla - Producers

Edit: I did NOT forget Mme. Thenardier and her husband from Les mis! Adding the Stepsisters and Stepmother from Cinderella/Into the Woods.


Rosencrantz: "Be happy - if you're not even HAPPY what's so good about surviving? We'll be all right. I suppose we just go on." - from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Updated On: 11/18/04 at 09:07 PM

gravity87
#4re: Pick the Best Musical Theater Comedy Characters
Posted: 11/17/04 at 10:57pm

d*mb you CurtainUp you beat me to Mae Peterson. Im in Bye Bye Birdie mode because we just finishd auditions today. I just found out that I got Albert So Im extremly excited YAY! but enough about me

Others....

Sir Evelyn-Anything Goes
Jeff Douglass-Brigadoon

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Sumofallthings
#5re: Pick the Best Musical Theater Comedy Characters
Posted: 11/17/04 at 10:58pm

Jesus - Jesus Christ Superstar


BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"

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EponineThenardier
#6re: Pick the Best Musical Theater Comedy Characters
Posted: 11/17/04 at 11:07pm

Anything that Douglas Sills plays, he's so funnnnnny :)

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DickonDefysGravity
#7re: Pick the Best Musical Theater Comedy Characters
Posted: 11/18/04 at 12:06am

Mr. Macafee
The Witch- Into the Woods
Galinda
Nicely Nicely Johnson


And you think of all of the things you've seen, and you wish that you could live in between ,and you're back again only different than before... After the Sky. -Into the Woods (Jack)

FabalaCohen
#8re: Pick the Best Musical Theater Comedy Characters
Posted: 11/18/04 at 1:17am

The Thenardiers (excluding...Dog Eat Dog, I think? random brain shortage, plus I haven't heard the OCR lately)


"During this performance, please feel free to let your cell phones and pagers ring willy-nilly. However, do remember that there are heavily-armed knights on stage and you might well be dragged up and impaled." (Pre-curtain announcement at the new Broadway musical Monty Python's Spamalot)

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munkustrap178
#9re: Pick the Best Musical Theater Comedy Characters
Posted: 11/18/04 at 1:20am

The Witch - Into the Woods
The Baker's Wife - Into the Woods
Mae Peterson - Bye Bye Birdie
Lucy - You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

i'll post more later i can't think


"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

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Mr. Tuttle
#10re: Pick the Best Musical Theater Comedy Characters
Posted: 11/18/04 at 1:22am

Hmmm..don't know if I would consider the ITW witch a comedy role.

And didn't the poster ask for male comedy roles?

I would add Heinzi from Pajama Game...Moonface from Anything..Max in Sound of Music


Ignorance is temporary. Stupidity last forever. Watch out BWW... HE'S BACK.

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munkustrap178
#11re: Pick the Best Musical Theater Comedy Characters
Posted: 11/18/04 at 1:27am

It's not an ENTIRELY comic role, but there are enough opportunities...Bernadette made it hysterical.

I second Heinzie.

J.P. Finch in How To Succeed...


"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

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BreakingTheCircle07
#12re: Pick the Best Musical Theater Comedy Characters
Posted: 11/18/04 at 4:13am

Nicely Nicely
Mrs. Lovette
Mmd. Thenardier
Charlotte in "ALNM"


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mirandajrs
#13re: Pick the Best Musical Theater Comedy Characters
Posted: 11/18/04 at 4:36am

Rod in Avenue Q


Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale: Do you think my costume looked all right for Brooks? I think he was a little amazed.


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