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#26

re: Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.

Posted: 11/27/07 at 9:08am

That I could actually play (either now or when I get older):
Martha Jefferson or Abigail Adams - 1776
The Witch or the Baker's Wife - Into the Woods
Miss Pennywise - Urinetown
Reno Sweeney - Anything Goes
Anna - The King and I (they'll just have to deal with my exotic features. Ha.)
Sonia - Godspell
Eva - Evita
Maria or one of the nuns - The Sound of Music
Georgia Hendricks - Curtains (if I really kicked my ass in dance class. I do know the choreography, though)
Christine - Phantom (strangely enough)
Claudia or Luisa - Nine
Gloria - Damn Yankees
The Beggar Woman - Sweeney Todd
Aldonza or Antonia - Man of La Mancha
Elphaba or Nessarose - Wicked
Joanne, Marta, or Amy - Company (I've played Marta and would like another shot)

That I want to play but never will:
John Dickinson - 1776 (I'm not male and 40)
Velma Kelly - Chicago (I can't dance)
Sheila - A Chorus Line (I can't dance)
Anita - West Side Story (Are we seeing a pattern?)
Carlotta - Phantom (Not a coloratura opera singer)

#27

re: Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.

Posted: 11/27/07 at 9:59am

Elphaba - Wicked
Eve - Children of Eden
Daisy - Side Show
Ella - Evening Primrose (when are they going to make this a stage musical!!!!!!)
Louise - Gypsy
Ariel - The Little Mermaid
Cinderella (now), Baker's Wife/Witch (older) - Into The Woods

Madame Morrible: "So you take the chicken, now it must be a white chicken. The corpse can be any color. And that is the spell for lost luggage!" - The Yellow Brick Road Not Taken

Updated On: 11/27/07 at 09:59 AM

#28

re: Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.

Posted: 11/27/07 at 10:07am

So yeah...there's a difference between dream roles, and roles I could picture myself playing. Pretty much the only overlap is

Jo March (Little Women)

but I'm okay with that.

#29

re: Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.

Posted: 11/27/07 at 11:04am

Well, I could only see myself in a limited number of roles (not that I have those aspirations or anything);
Jan in Grease
Beth or Amy in Little Women (probably Beth)
Ursula in Little Mermaid when I'm older

Roles I'd like to play:
Edith Bouvier Beale/Little Edie in Grey Gardens
The Chaperone in the Drowsy Chaperone (when older, that is a possibility, I suppose)
Eponine in Les Miserables
Penny in Hairspray
Eva in Evita
Norma in Sunset Boulevard

"A birdcage I plan to hang. I'll get to that someday. A birdcage for a bird who flew away...Around the world." "Life is a cabaret old chum, only a cabaret old chum, and I love a cabaret!"-RIP Natasha Richardson-I was honored to have witnessed her performance as Sally Bowles.

#30

re: Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.

Posted: 11/27/07 at 11:33am

Speaking as one half of Shapusen (my partner and I both use this account), here are a couple parts that I would love to play, but never will since I'm out of school now and don't plan on acting much in the future:

Audrey - Little Shop
Christine Colgate - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
DeDee Truit - Opposite of Sex (Why won't get on/off broadway?!?)
Kira - Xanadu (are we noticing a Kerry Butler trend?)
Mary Lane - Reefer Madness
Toffee- Zombie Prom
Young Little Edie - Grey Gardens
Cinderella - Into the Woods
. . . etc.

#31

re: Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.

Posted: 11/27/07 at 4:26pm

This is a fun idea!

I am pretty realistic. I am 4'11 and too short for many of the roles for women out there. However, a few of the roles that I could do which my height would probably work well for are....

Glinda in Wicked
Eponine in Les Mis
Margot or Kate in Legally Blonde ( love Elle but way to short to ever make it work)
Kim in Bye Bye Birdie
Dainty June in Gypsy

#32

re: Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.

Posted: 1/13/08 at 3:01pm

Dream roles...

Eponine in Les Mis
Elle in Blonde
Amber/Penny in Hairspray
Liesel/ Sound of Music
Glinda in Wicked
Sandy in Grease
Val in Chorus Line
Mimi in Rent
Kim in Birdie
June in Gypsy
Anyone in SA!

#33

re: Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.

Posted: 1/13/08 at 3:52pm

Luisa - The Fantasticks
Maggie - A Chorus Line
Louise - Gypsy
The Mistress - Evita
Sandy - Grease
Eponine - Les Miserables
Johanna - Sweeney Todd
Olive - Spelling Bee
Philia - A Funny Thing Happened...

You're that little girl with her wings unfurled, flying again. Back in your backyard dancing...I found a way back to then. - [title of show]

#34

re: Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.

Posted: 1/13/08 at 3:57pm

Charlie Brown- "YAGMCB"
Orin, the Dentist- "Little Shop"
Edna Turnblad- "Hairspray
Horton- "Seussical"
William Barfee- "Spelling Bee"
Max Bialystock- "The Producers"
Roger DeBris- "The Producers"
Rooster- Annie"

#35

re: Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.

Posted: 1/13/08 at 4:00pm

Realistically?

Musicals:
Title role in Sweeney Todd (duh)
Javert in Les Miz
John Wilkes Booth in Assassins (I've previously played Czolgosz)
Rutledge in 1776
Fred Graham/Petruccio in Kiss Me Kate
Satan/Warmup Man in Jerry Springer: The Opera
And a role that I think I would be great in but I know would seem like an unlikely casting choice: Molina in Kiss of the Spider Woman (I've previously played the Warden)

Straight plays:
Title role in Hamlet
Biff in Death of a Salesman
Austin in True West
George in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (I've previously played Nick)

Many of these roles are for men in their thirties and forties; I'm only 25, and even though I look several years older than I am I know I'll have to wait a while to play some of these (if they ever happen), but I'm patient! I also like being in new or newish plays that no one has seen before.

Updated On: 1/13/08 at 04:00 PM

#36

re: Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.

Posted: 1/13/08 at 4:20pm

I can picture myself playing opposite Angela Lansbury in Saturday Night Fever... take a looksie...

http://www.jibjab.com/sendables/preview/krfUO10RhSLOVB5nVn3cL2rp

Updated On: 1/13/08 at 04:20 PM

#37

re: Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.

Posted: 1/13/08 at 4:34pm

(I'm 16 but I am imagining these as if I were in a young cast so I could play some of the older roles)

Bobby in COMPANY
Man in Chair in DROWSY
Joe in SUNSET BLVD.
Major Bovier in GREY GARDENS
Herbie in GYPSY
Melchior in SPRING AWAKENING
Moritz in SPRING AWAKENING
Tevye in FIDDLER
Julian in 42ND STREET

I also think it's fun to adapt female roles into males so I can play then. In that place I would love to play the male versions of:

MARGO in APPLAUSE
NORMA in SUNSET BLVD.
ROSE in GYPSY
BOTH EDIE'S played by Christine in GREY GARDENS

You look absolutely terrific, honestly.

#38

re: Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.

Posted: 1/13/08 at 4:59pm

Honestly, a lot of the roles I would like to play are male roles. I don't know why, I guess I just find them more dynamic and interesting than the female parts, in general. Since this is roles I'd actually imagine myself PLAYING than rather what parts I would WANT TO play, than that narrows the list down a bit (ignoring the fact that I can't sing to save my life):

Lucy (Jekyll and Hyde)
Roxie (Chicago)
Mrs. Lovett [if I was a buncha years older] (Sweeney Todd)

Bow before the cuteness of my cousin!!! ;]

#39

re: Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.

Posted: 1/13/08 at 5:16pm

Roles I could do...
Collins - Rent
Coalhouse - Ragtime
Mister - Color Purple
Harpo - Color Purple
Robert - Company
Jimmy Early - Dreamgirls
Sebastian - Little Mermaid

I dream to be anyone in Les Miz but you have to belt insanely high for a lead guy part, and vocally im not there...yet...working on it!

#40

re: Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.

Posted: 1/13/08 at 7:03pm

Most of these are well into the future, but:

Little Red in Into the Woods
Penny in Hairspray
Eponine in Les Mis
Mary in Merrily We Roll Along
Petra in A Little Night Music
Squeaky in Assassins
Christine in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Logainne in Spelling Bee
Amy or Marta in Company
Reno in Anything Goes

#41

re: Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.

Posted: 1/13/08 at 7:47pm

Some of the roles that I can see myself playing include:

The Phantom of the Opera (The Phantom of the Opera)
Robert (Company)
The Master of Ceremonies (Cabaret)
Leopold Bloom (The Producers)
Lawrence Jameson (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels)
Sweeney Todd (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street)
Anthony Hope (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street)
Lieutenant Frank Cioffi (Curtains)
any male role in "Avenue Q"

Updated On: 1/13/08 at 07:47 PM

#42

re: Post roles that you can picture yourself playing.

Posted: 1/13/08 at 8:24pm

As far as roles I'm pretty sure I could do:

Seymour -- Little Shop of Horrors
Todd -- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (granted, I'm not sure I could do it eight times a week. But every now and then in the shower I sound DAMN good belting out 'Epiphany'.)
Mark -- RENT
Officer Lockstock -- Urinetown
The Baker -- Into the Woods
Leaf Coneybear -- The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Bobby -- Company
Princeton -- Avenue Q (I'm a pretty good sock-puppeteer.)

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