Roles You Wish You Could Play
Roles You Wish You Could Play
DramaDork925
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/4/05
#0Roles 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
Am I cut out to spend my time this way?
BwayLeadman
Broadway Star Joined: 9/29/04
YankeesFan175
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/8/05
#2re: Roles You Wish You Could Play
Posted: 11/15/05 at 6:23pmMark - RENT
Bob: "there is a chance, albeit a microscopic one, that our baby at some point in his or her formative years will get lodged in a tree"
~Related~
gavrochegirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
#3re: Roles You Wish You Could Play
Posted: 11/15/05 at 6:24pmProbably Mark in RENT.
What the puck?!
#4re: Roles You Wish You Could Play
Posted: 11/15/05 at 6:25pm
Mama Rose - Gypsy
Clara - Piazza
Margaret - Piazza
Elphaba - W*cked
MARGARET: "Clara, stop that. That's illegal." - The Light in the Piazza
"I'm not in Bambi and I'm not blonde!" - Idina Menzel
Updated On: 11/15/05 at 06:25 PM
"I'm not in Bambi and I'm not blonde!" - Idina Menzel
#5re: Roles You Wish You Could Play
Posted: 11/15/05 at 6:25pmWow! Nice to see a lot of Marks. I thought that Roger was supposed to be the role that everyone wanted.
#6re: Roles You Wish You Could Play
Posted: 11/15/05 at 6:27pm
Freddy in DRS
Emcee in Cabaret
Mark in Rent
"I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tightrope dancer, so that no incompetent would dare step upon it." Goethe
30/90 Playout
Stand-by Joined: 10/7/05
#7re: Roles You Wish You Could Play
Posted: 11/15/05 at 6:51pm
Rent - Mark Cohen
ttB - Jonathan Larson
L5Y - Jamie Wellerstein
#8re: 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
Over_the_Moon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/22/05
#9re: Roles You Wish You Could Play
Posted: 11/15/05 at 6:56pm
Marcellus in The Music Man
Rev. Parris in The Crucible
"what have we learned? Don't smoke... don't do drugs and don't sing 'Defying Gravity'." -CATSNYRevival
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#10re: Roles You Wish You Could Play
Posted: 11/15/05 at 7:02pmSuperman - Oh to be able to look at the bod again - Oh well
Poster Emeritus
#11re: 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
elvenprincess971
Broadway Star Joined: 9/12/04
#12re: 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.
Love,
Miss Britt
#13re: 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
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
heaja123
Understudy Joined: 5/9/05
bwayondabrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/05
#15re: 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 :)
rowers unite
Stand-by Joined: 11/13/05
#16re: Roles You Wish You Could Play
Posted: 11/15/05 at 7:16pm
1. elphaiba(spelling?) or gelinda in Wicked
2. maureen in Rent
bwayondabrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/05
#17re: 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...
bwayondabrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/05
#18re: 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...
MissElphie
Broadway Star Joined: 4/4/05
#19re: 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
AspectsofLoveLover
Understudy Joined: 7/30/05
#20re: 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
"It's telling me to hold you tight and dance like it's the last night of the world."-Miss Saigon
Updated On: 11/16/05 at 08:34 PM
Understudy Joined: 12/31/69
#21re: Roles You Wish You Could Play
Posted: 11/15/05 at 8:47pm
Mark-RENT
Chip and Leaf- Spelling Bee
NYC_or_Bust
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/8/05
#22re: Roles You Wish You Could Play
Posted: 11/15/05 at 8:47pm
The Baron-Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
John Adams-1776
I adore the black band holding on the Phantom's mask. ~ Jenna2
C is for Company
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/16/05
#23re: 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
#24re: 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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