Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.
Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.
#1Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.
Posted: 11/26/07 at 10:13pmHey! My friends and I do this a lot. What are your dream roles? What roles do you see yourself playing if you could/
#2re: Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.
Posted: 11/26/07 at 10:30pmSeymour from Little Shop of Horrors. If you saw my nerdy cuteness, you would see how I looked, and I love the character, and I can sing his part pretty good.
#2re: Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.
Posted: 11/26/07 at 10:39pm
Tam.
If I were 20+ years younger.
#3re: Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.
Posted: 11/26/07 at 10:41pm
I would die to play Edie (Act 1) in Grey Gardens.
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Actinggbugg474
Featured Actor Joined: 9/4/04
#4re: Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.
Posted: 11/26/07 at 10:43pmBobby Strong in Urinetown. Maybe some day ...
#5re: Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.
Posted: 11/26/07 at 10:47pm
Annie in Oklahoma.
I love that role!
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Posted: 11/26/07 at 10:49pm
Dream Roles:
Act Two Little Edie- Grey Gardens
Mrs. Lovett- Sweeney Todd
Carlotta- Phantom
Miss Mazeppa- Gypsy
Paulette- Legally Blonde
Glinda- Wicked
Scarlett- Gone With the Wind (which WILL come to Broadway, dang it!
#7re: Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.
Posted: 11/26/07 at 10:58pm
Otto, Ulbrecht - from Spring Awakening
(Fat Kids Unite!!)
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
#8re: Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.
Posted: 11/26/07 at 11:11pm
Wicked -- Elphaba
The Drowsy Chaperone -- The Drowsy Chaperone
Sound of Music (International Tour) -- Mother Abbess
[I am auditioning for it on 12/11!]
Les Miserables -- Mdme. T [wish it wasn't canceled]
Annie Get Your Gun -- Annie Oakley
Annie -- Miss Hannigan
#9re: Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.
Posted: 11/26/07 at 11:13pm
Penny-Hairspray
Wendla-Spring Awakening
Of course, I could never actually pull off these parts because I can't sing to save my life!
#10re: Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.
Posted: 11/26/07 at 11:13pm
My dream roles include:
The Phantom of the Opera (The Phantom of the Opera)
Robert (Company)
The Master of Ceremonies (Cabaret)
Leopold Bloom (The Producers)
Amos Hart (Chicago)
Inspector Javert (Les Miserables)
Lawrence Jameson (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
Billy Crocker (Anything Goes)
any male role in "Avenue Q"
#11re: Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.
Posted: 11/26/07 at 11:14pm
Ulla-The Producers
Velma Kelly-Chicago
Amber-Hairspray
#12re: Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.
Posted: 11/26/07 at 11:23pm
in no particular order
The Phantom (Phantom of the Opera)
Leo Bloom (The Producers)
Roger Debris (The Producers)
Snoopy (YAGMCB, having already played CB)
Freddy Benson (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
Jamie (L5Y)
The Beast (Beauty and the Beast)
Lemuiere (Beauty and the Beast)
Seymour (Little Shop of Horrors)
Finch (How to Succeed...)
George (SITPWG)
Fredrick Egerman (A Little Night Music)
Sweeney Todd (Sweeney Todd)
Tobias Ragg (Sweeney Todd)
Bobby (Company)
Georgio (Passion)
Judas (JCS)
Albin (La Cage aux Folles)
Macheath (The Threepenny Opera)
Caldwell B. Cladwell (Urinetown)
Officer Lockstock (Urinetown)
Bobby Strong (Urinetown)
Sir Lancelot (Camelot)
Barry Champlain (TALK RAD!O)
Cyrano (Cyrano de Bergerac)
Whiteside (TMWCTD)
Richard M. Nixon (Frost/Nixon)
David Frost (Frost/Nixon)
...just to name a few.
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Ed_Mottershead
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#13re: Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.
Posted: 11/26/07 at 11:30pm
Sheridan Whiteside in The Man Who Came to Dinner (I did it in high school over 40 years ago).
Auntie Mame
Sadie Thompson in Rain
Shylock in The Merchant of Venice
#14re: Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.
Posted: 11/26/07 at 11:32pmJamie (The Last 5 Years)
#15re: Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.
Posted: 11/26/07 at 11:34pm
ROLES I CAN PICTURE MYSELF PLAYING
Molina (Kiss of the Spider-Woman)
Henrik (A Little Night Music)
Tiny Tom (Urinetown)
Prior (Angels in America)
Ernst (Spring Awakening)
Gordon or Steve (Rent)
Leaf Coneybear (Spelling Bee)
The Witch's Father (Wicked)
#16re: Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.
Posted: 11/26/07 at 11:37pm
Dream Roles. Some I can actually do (Charity, Roxie, Penny) and some I can't (Annie Oakly)
Charity Hope Valentine - Sweet Charity [!!!!!]
Hedy - How To Succeed... [!!!!!]
Lily St. Regis (now) / Miss Hannigan (when I'm older)- Annie
Louise - Gypsy
Roxie Hart - Chicago
Annie - Annie Get Your Gun
Glinda - Wicked
Janet - The Drowsy Chaperone
Penny - Hairspray
Frenchie - Grease
Rosie / Mrs Peterson - Bye Bye Birdie (even though I would never play either... I am more of the Kim type becuase I'm young and I'm blonde and pale)
Delila Strict - Zombie Prom (when I'm older)
#17re: Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.
Posted: 11/26/07 at 11:38pm
Glinda or Elphaba - Wicked
Elle Woods - Legally Blonde
Paulette - Legally Blonde
Penny - Hairspray
Julia Sullivan - The Wedding Singer
Holly - The Wedding Singer
Maureen - Rent
Maggie - A Chorus Line
Val - A Chorus Line
Velma - Chicago
Ulla - The Producers
Christine - The Phantom of the Opera
The Drowsy Chaperone - Janet
Ariel - TLM
Audrey - Little Shop of Horrors
Updated On: 11/26/07 at 11:38 PM
#18re: Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.
Posted: 11/26/07 at 11:43pm
Edna Turnblad
Horton the Elephant
Orin (the Dentist!)
Rooster Hannigan
Man in Chair
William Barfee
Gosh, these would be fun roles!!!
#19re: Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.
Posted: 11/26/07 at 11:47pm
This will cause much ridicule and scorn my way, but if I could play ANY role EVER in the entire world...
It would be Miss Nellie Lovett.
toomeytwopiece
Featured Actor Joined: 1/30/06
#20re: Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.
Posted: 11/27/07 at 4:46am
ooh!! FUN!
-Phantom in Phantom of the Opera (in a couple of years)
-Che in EVITA
-Mordred in CAMELOT
-Corny Collins in HAIRSPRAY
-Judas in JCS
-Henrik in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
-Candide in CANDIDE
-Aurora in KISS OF THE SPIDERWOMAN (hey, I have played female on Broadway before)
-Molina in KISS OF THE SPIDERWOMAN
-Frank N Furter in ROCKY HORROR SHOW
-Prince Karl Franz in THE STUDENT PRINCE
-the Witch in INTO THE WOODS (see above about the gender thing lol)
-Huck in BIG RIVER
-Homer in FLOYD COLLINS (I have done that role twice, but would love to again, in Manhattan)
-Mac in THE THREEPENNY OPERA 
jagfkb
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/29/07
#21re: Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.
Posted: 11/27/07 at 6:34am
Callahan, Emmet- Legally Blonde
Chofffi, Aaron- Curtains
Frederick, Igor, Blind Hermit- Young Frankenstein
Eric-The Little Mermaid
Sir Robin-Spamalot
The wizard- Wicked
Lumiere, Cogsworth- Beauty & the Beast
Man in the chair, Aldolpho, Robert, Underling- The Drowsy Chaperone
Billy Flynn, Amos Hart- Chicago
John Adams- 1776
Leo Bloom, Franz, Max Bialistock- The Producers
Mushnick- Little Shop of Horrors
Grinch- Grinch
Bert, Mr. Banks- Mary Poppins
Scar- Lion King
MerMaggieGalinda
Broadway Star Joined: 11/29/06
#22re: Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.
Posted: 11/27/07 at 8:33am
Glinda: Wicked
Audrey: Little Shop of Horrors
Clara: The Light in the Piazza
Cosette: Les Miserables
Ariel: The Little Mermaid
Wendla: Spring Awakening
Penny, Amber: Hairspray
Elle, Margot: Legally Blonde
Eliza: My Fair Lady
Maria: West Side Story(never gonna happen, I'm white, blonde, and I have green eyes).
#23re: Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.
Posted: 11/27/07 at 8:54am
Roles I'd like to play:
Kristine/Maggie - A Chorus Line
Amy - Company
Audrey - Little Shop of Horrors
Peggy - 42nd Street
Ilse - Spring Awakening
Beth/Amy - Little Women
Mary - Mary Poppins
Ariel - The Little Mermaid
The one I could realistically picture: Kristine
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
luceecool
Understudy Joined: 3/16/05
#24re: Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.
Posted: 11/27/07 at 9:04am
Ok, these aren't just dream roles but ones that i think i could do! (hey, if it were dream roles, there'd be millions more)
Little Sally- Urinetown
Sally Brown- You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
Kate Monster- Avenue Q (yes, i even insisted that my mum brought me a puppet for Christmas)
Hmm, there seems to be a theme of small people called Sally, o well
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