Roles You Wish You Could Play

#1

Roles You Wish You Could Play

Posted: 11/15/05 at 6:14pm

What are the roles that you can't play because of your gender that you would love to play?

For me it's Mark in Rent or Judas in JCS

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#2

re: Roles You Wish You Could Play

Posted: 11/15/05 at 6:22pm

Mama Rose

#3

re: Roles You Wish You Could Play

Posted: 11/15/05 at 6:23pm

Mark - RENT

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#4

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Posted: 11/15/05 at 6:24pm

Probably Mark in RENT.

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#5

re: Roles You Wish You Could Play

Posted: 11/15/05 at 6:25pm

Mama Rose - Gypsy
Clara - Piazza
Margaret - Piazza
Elphaba - W*cked

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Updated On: 11/15/05 at 06:25 PM

#6

re: Roles You Wish You Could Play

Posted: 11/15/05 at 6:25pm

Wow! Nice to see a lot of Marks. I thought that Roger was supposed to be the role that everyone wanted.

#7

re: Roles You Wish You Could Play

Posted: 11/15/05 at 6:27pm

Freddy in DRS
Emcee in Cabaret
Mark in Rent

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#8

re: Roles You Wish You Could Play

Posted: 11/15/05 at 6:51pm

Rent - Mark Cohen
ttB - Jonathan Larson
L5Y - Jamie Wellerstein

#9

re: Roles You Wish You Could Play

Posted: 11/15/05 at 6:51pm

Most def Mark in Rent
Jamie in L5Y
Moonface Mmartin in Anything Goes
and Fiyero...it would be a fun role

#10

re: Roles You Wish You Could Play

Posted: 11/15/05 at 6:56pm

Marcellus in The Music Man
Rev. Parris in The Crucible

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#11

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Posted: 11/15/05 at 7:02pm

Superman - Oh to be able to look at the bod again - Oh well

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#12

re: Roles You Wish You Could Play

Posted: 11/15/05 at 7:02pm

Clara- Piazza
Christine- Phantom (not of the opera, the one by Maury Yeston)
Jo or Beth- Little Women
Abigail- The Crucible
Mary Girard- The Insanity of Mary Girard
Mimi- La Boheme
Cunegonde- Candide

#13

re: Roles You Wish You Could Play

Posted: 11/15/05 at 7:04pm

Angel - RENT (man... I think it would be so fun to be up on stage in drag)
Jamie - L5Y
Phantom - POTO
Javert - Les Mis
Riff Raff - Rocky Horror
Engineer - Miss Saigon

Just a few.

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#14

re: Roles You Wish You Could Play

Posted: 11/15/05 at 7:05pm

In order:
1.Fosca-Passion
2.Velma Kelly-Chicago
3.Mimi-Rent
4.Diana-A Chorus Line
5.Aurora/Spider Woman-Kiss of the Spider Woman

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#15

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Posted: 11/15/05 at 7:06pm

Any male role in Rent

#16

re: Roles You Wish You Could Play

Posted: 11/15/05 at 7:12pm

okay, id say
-Roger in RENT (my vocal range is that of norbert so says my voice teacher and my sis says its like adam's so it all works out...
-Seymour in LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
-Leaf Coneybear in SPELLING BEE
-Fiyero in WICKED
-Link in HAIRSPRAY
-Freddy in DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS
-Radmames in AIDA
-The Phantom in PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

and thats about it :)

#17

re: Roles You Wish You Could Play

Posted: 11/15/05 at 7:16pm

1. elphaiba(spelling?) or gelinda in Wicked
2. maureen in Rent

#18

re: Roles You Wish You Could Play

Posted: 11/15/05 at 7:22pm

oh,not your gender!
well, maybe charity in sweet charity because i love christina and she is hot...
i dunno, thats all i really have to say

<---note christina love in icon (marry me, christina!) sorry...

#19

re: Roles You Wish You Could Play

Posted: 11/15/05 at 7:22pm

oh,not your gender!
well, maybe charity in sweet charity because i love christina and she is hot...
i dunno, thats all i really have to say

<---note christina love in icon (marry me, christina!) sorry...

#20

re: Roles You Wish You Could Play

Posted: 11/15/05 at 7:22pm

Roger or Mark in RENT.
Peter in BARE.
Jean ValJean in Les Mis
The Phantom in POTO
Freddie in DRS

#21

re: Roles You Wish You Could Play

Posted: 11/15/05 at 8:34pm

Chris/Thuy-Miss Saigon
Tony/Riff-West Side Story
Fiyero-Wicked
Alex-Aspects of Love
Erik/Phantom-The Phantom of the Opera

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Updated On: 11/16/05 at 08:34 PM

#22

re: Roles You Wish You Could Play

Posted: 11/15/05 at 8:47pm

Mark-RENT
Chip and Leaf- Spelling Bee

#23

re: Roles You Wish You Could Play

Posted: 11/15/05 at 8:47pm

The Baron-Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
John Adams-1776

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#24

re: Roles You Wish You Could Play

Posted: 11/15/05 at 8:53pm

Caroline- Caroline, or Change
Carlotta- POTO
Amy- Company
Lady Beaconsfield- Jekyll and Hyde lmao shes so awesome
Mrs Lovett- Sweeney Todd
Mae- The Wild party

Awesome parts that make me mad I have a bad male singing voice. Females always get the best songs over men in theater IMO

EDIT; Oh and how could I forget
Factory girl a.k.a. girl #5- Les mis
The jilted wife of count ludovic- Passion

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Updated On: 11/15/05 at 08:53 PM

#25

re: Roles You Wish You Could Play

Posted: 11/15/05 at 8:55pm

Christine ~ ALW POTO (I do NOT have the vocal range, I just love it)
Lady of the Lake ~ Spamalot .(Not exactly the range, but I love to sing those songs)
Elphaba ~ Wicked. (I would love to take after Kristy Crate, or (I think its Steph) Stephanie Block and do what I call "The mini cackle" in the last "bring me down" in "Defying Gravity)
Either Mimi or Maureen in Rent ~ I think more Mimi, but I love Maureen also...
Marian ~ The Woman in White (Or even Anne or Laura. All of those women roles are terrific. Marian's character develops through it, and I love the way she progresses through it)

Hard roles to choose from!


Velma (Chicago) would be fun. I loved seeing that musical. :)

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