Roles that are hardly ever offstage.- Page 3
Roles that are hardly ever offstage.
Broadway Star Joined: 5/12/03
Roles that are hardly ever offstage.#51
Posted: 7/21/13 at 1:39amOld Deuteronomy even stayed during the intermission.
Roles that are hardly ever offstage.#53
Posted: 7/21/13 at 8:58amFranklin Shepard from Merrily We Roll Along is pretty much always onstage apart from one number.
Roles that are hardly ever offstage.#54
Posted: 7/21/13 at 10:18am
I'm basing this off the film, but isn't Adams onstage for He Plays the Violin?
Yes, I was thinking of the scene before it when I typed that, when Jefferson is by himself trying to write the first draft of the Declaration.
It's brief, maybe a minute long? But Adams gets a quick break offstage.
You're right, though, he's onstage for the rest of the scene and the song itself.
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Roles that are hardly ever offstage.#55
Posted: 7/21/13 at 10:26amChauncey Miles in THE NANCE. I have no idea how they manage so many split second costume changes to get Nathan from scene to scene as the set revolves.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
Roles that are hardly ever offstage.#57
Posted: 7/21/13 at 11:14am
"I think Deloris has very little down time in SISTER ACT as far as I can remember. She has a few very short breaks scattered here and there."
She actually has quite a few breaks. She's offstage during Mother Superior's songs in both acts, and she's offstage when Eddie sings I Could Be That Guy. Same thing when Sister Mary Roberts sings The Life I Never Lead and the gangsters' songs in both acts.
Roles that are hardly ever offstage.#57
Posted: 7/21/13 at 5:18pmChristine is hardly ever off-stage in Phantom. I think the scene where Raoul and the police chief and managers plan the capture and the short scene where Mme. Giry tells Raoul about the man who escaped the traveling fair may be the only ones where she isn't involved at all.
Roles that are hardly ever offstage.#58
Posted: 7/21/13 at 5:23pmI know at one time ins some video Laura Bell Bundy said she's only offstage for 18 minutes and that included intermission.
Roles that are hardly ever offstage.#60
Posted: 7/22/13 at 9:15amIn terms of plays , Salieri never leaves the stage at all except intermission. When Ian Mckellan played him, he was even onstage, with his back to the audience, as the people walked into the theatre.
Roles that are hardly ever offstage.#61
Posted: 7/22/13 at 10:26amEthel Savage in The Curious Savage.
Roles that are hardly ever offstage.#62
Posted: 7/22/13 at 10:42am
Guy and Girl in Once.
Rooster in Jerusalem.
Roles that are hardly ever offstage.#63
Posted: 7/22/13 at 6:12pmBrad and Janet in Rocky Horror.
Roles that are hardly ever offstage.#64
Posted: 7/22/13 at 7:46pmIf using the standard cast setup, the person playing Rod/Princeton has very little downtime.
Roles that are hardly ever offstage.#65
Posted: 7/22/13 at 11:21pm
I've been in CATS twice and the only roles that have significant off-stage time are Grizabella, Gus, and Bustopher Jones, unless they are doubling as ensemble cats. I suppose its a little different because it is an ensemble piece, but with the choreography it's grueling.
The only two times I was ever offstage was my costume change for Jennyanydots and "Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer".
Roles that are hardly ever offstage.#66
Posted: 12/6/13 at 6:09pmSurprised at how many of these I've done. I just finished playing David in a production of Company that kept the couples onstage during the whole show. It was a small space so when I was seated on a platform I may have had an audience member right next to me. The challenge of staying invested in a scene your character isn't directly involved in while there were audience members existing in the pretty much the same space your acting in was difficult but rewarding. The biggest challenge though was not having water. I also was onstage for the entirety of Godspell when my high school did that and the last supper scene always wound up being a silent fight for the grape juice lol. Interesting thread.
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Roles that are hardly ever offstage.#67
Posted: 12/6/13 at 6:22pmI'm surprised nobody has said Rose. She's on for the majority of the show and also performs the majority of the numbers in the show.
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Roles that are hardly ever offstage.#68
Posted: 12/6/13 at 8:52pmCarole in Beautiful. Aside from the end of the first act, she's onstage pretty much the entire time.
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Roles that are hardly ever offstage.#69
Posted: 12/7/13 at 12:06am
You can definitely add Elizabeth in IF/THEN to this now.
Over the course of the entire show, she's off-stage 15-20 mins max (excluding intermission).
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/7/12
Roles that are hardly ever offstage.#73
Posted: 12/8/13 at 9:27pmIn Rent, most of the cast stays on stage a lot. They sit on the tables and observe songs that they don't sing.
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