Roles that you have played
Roles that you have played
#0Roles that you have played
Posted: 3/26/06 at 11:37am
Let's talk about roles that we have played (I have also included my answers).
What is your favorite leading role that you have played? Aslan in "Narnia"
What is your least favorite leading role that you have played? Prince Charming in "Cinderella"
What is your favorite supporting role that you have played? Burt Healy in "Annie"
What is your least favorite supporting role that you have played? Maurice in "Beauty and the Beast"
Have you played a role more than once? Yes, the Scarecrow in "The Wizard of Oz"
Who role are you playing now(if any)? Scarecrow in "The Wizard of Oz"
What one role would you play at the drop of a dime? Anyone in "Smikey Joe's Cafe"
Shoot.
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Updated On: 3/27/06 at 11:37 AM
#1re: Roles that you have played
Posted: 3/26/06 at 11:44am
Favorite: Peggy Sawyer
Least Favorite: Usher in THe Fall of the House of Usher
Supporting: -
Role playing now: Margery Kemp and Mrs. Montague in A Voice of My Own
Drop of a DIme: Mrs. Lovett
"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
#2re: Roles that you have played
Posted: 3/26/06 at 12:03pm
What is your favorite leading role that you have played?: Ruth in Wonderful Town
What is your least favorite leading role that you have played?: Ella in Bells Are Ringing
What is your favorite supporting role that you have played?: Donna/Oolie in City of Angels or Cassie in Rumors
What is your least favorite supporting role that you have played?: Marta in Company
Have you played a role more than once?: No
Who role are you playing now(if any)?: Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
What one role would you play at the drop of a dime?: The Witch in Into the Woods
Shoot.
#3re: Roles that you have played
Posted: 3/26/06 at 12:42pm
What is your favorite leading role that you have played? Lady DeWinter in The Three Musketeers
What is your least favorite leading role that you have played? Marianne in Sense and Sensibility
What is your favorite supporting role that you have played? Tzeitel in Fiddler on the Roof
What is your least favorite supporting role that you have played? Potiphar's Wife in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (if you can count it as supporting...I just really hate the show.)
Have you played a role more than once? No
Who role are you playing now(if any)? Stupefyin' Jones/Dance Captain/Costumes/Wife in Li'l Abner (that's what you get for having no time on your hands!) and Marty in Grease.
What one role would you play at the drop of a dime? Eponine in Les Miserables
#4re: Roles that you have played
Posted: 3/26/06 at 1:05pm
What is your favorite leading role that you have played?: Georg in She Loves Me
What is your least favorite leading role that you have played?: Ko-Ko in The Mikado
What is your favorite supporting role that you have played?: Sir Joseph in HMS Pinafore
What is your least favorite supporting role that you have played?: Lloyd in some piece of sh*t called Rehearsal For Murder
Have you played a role more than once?: Yes
Who role are you playing now(if any)?: Leon Czolgosz in Assassins
What one role would you play at the drop of a dime?: See icon
jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#5re: Roles that you have played
Posted: 3/26/06 at 1:12pm
What is your favorite leading role that you have played?: Billy Flynn
What is your least favorite leading role that you have played?: Mr. Applegate- Damn Yankees- great part, but that show drags when applegate and lola aren't around
What is your favorite supporting role that you have played?: George in Sorry Wrong Number
played more than once: I did rocky horror twice, but in 2 different roles Riff Raff (I sucked at it) and Brad
What is your least favorite supporting role that you have played?: Ensemble/ Voice Double for Daddy Warbucks in annie
Have you played a role more than once?: Yes
Who role are you playing now(if any)?: 2 in development- Billy Flynn or Jack/Jesus in reefer madness(working on the rights)
What one role would you play at the drop of a dime?: J.Pierrepont Finch, Lawrence Jameson, Freddy Benson
"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel
Updated On: 3/26/06 at 01:12 PM
#6re: Roles that you have played
Posted: 3/26/06 at 1:51pm
What is your least favorite leading role that you have played? Beth - A Modern Christmas Carol [6th grade school show... she was such a Mary-Sue.]
What is your favorite supporting role that you have played? Jack's Mother - Into the Woods
What is your least favorite supporting role that you have played? Peddler Woman - Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs [that makeup..]
Have you played a role more than once? No
What one role would you play at the drop of a dime? Mrs. Lovett
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#7re: Roles that you have played
Posted: 3/26/06 at 2:02pm
What is your favorite leading role that you have played? Liesl (ok, maybe not leading, but it was a ton of fun)
What is your least favorite leading role that you have played? Beauty in BATB (not the disney version, AWFUL show!)
What is your favorite supporting role that you have played? Ursula Merkle in Bye Bye Birdie
What is your least favorite supporting role that you have played? Nurse Grey in the Secret Garden
Have you played a role more than once? No, but I've done Bye Bye Birdie more than once
Who role are you playing now(if any)? Agnes Gooch in Mame and Sidekick in a kid's show called "The Magical Pinata"
What one role would you play at the drop of a dime? Eponine, Narrator in Joseph, Cathy in L5Y, Mimi in RENT, Kesa/Wife/Actress in SWIWS, Penny in Hairspray, Jo in Little Women the Musical- There are so many!
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#8re: Roles that you have played
Posted: 3/26/06 at 2:10pm
What is your favorite leading role that you have played? Celia in "as you like it" well it's not really the lead, but it was fun lol
What is your least favorite leading role that you have played? Erica in runaways...hahha don't ask
What is your favorite supporting role that you have played? Hodel in Fiddler, or Urleen in Footloose
What is your least favorite supporting role that you have played? Um all I have to say is "The lion the witch and the Wardrobe..." never again lol worst musical Ive ever been in.
Have you played a role more than once? Nope
Who role are you playing now(if any)? Gertrude in "Seussical" aka..the musical that is taking over every highschool around the country lol
What one role would you play at the drop of a dime? mimi in RENT, I don't know why I just love it lol, or Cathy in L5Y that would be amazing.
Link Larkin Wanabe
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#9re: Roles that you have played
Posted: 3/26/06 at 2:17pm
What is your favorite leading role that you have played?
Seymour in Little Shop
What is your favorite supporting role that you have played?
Motel in Fiddler on the Roof
What is your least favorite supporting role that you have played?
Tommy Keeler in Annie Get Your Gun (although I still loved it)
Have you played a role more than once?
No
What one role would you play at the drop of a dime?
Mark in Rent
Akiva
#10re: Roles that you have played
Posted: 3/26/06 at 2:58pm
favorite lead- Carmen in FAME
least fave lead- Fenrisulf in Lion, Witch, and Wardrobe
favorite supporting- Crystal in Little Shop of Horrors
least fave supporting- Willemina in The Hobbit
what role now- Liz in Chicago
drop of a dime- Velma in Chicago, any of the gods or Ti Moune in Once on This Island, Luttiebelle in Purlie,any of the women in The Gospel at Colonus, Anita in WSS, and Dorothy in The Wiz...
#11re: Roles that you have played
Posted: 3/26/06 at 3:13pm
What is your favorite leading role that you have played?
Audrey in Little Shop
What is your favorite supporting role that you have played?
Corporal in The Boys from Syracuse
What is your least favorite supporting role that you have played?
Ensemble in Godspell
Have you played a role more than once?
No
Who role are you playing now(if any)?
haven't been on stage in 3 years
What one role would you play at the drop of a dime?
either Tracy in Hairspray or Glinda in Wicked tough choice
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~eleanor roosevelt
#12re: Roles that you have played
Posted: 3/26/06 at 3:26pm
What is your favorite leading role that you have played?
Maria in The Sound of Music
What is your least favorite leading role that you have played?
Harriet Smith in Emma
What is your favorite supporting role that you have played?
Minnie Fay in Hello Dolly or Beth in Little Women
What is your least favorite supporting role that you have played?
A Pink lady in Grease
Have you played a role more than once?
Nope
Who role are you playing now(if any)?
Sadly, none
What one role would you play at the drop of a dime?
Oh god there's so many.
Ummm...
Olive in Spelling Bee, Cosette/Eponine, Hope in Urinetown, Cunegonde in Candide, Amneris in Aida, Maureen in Rent, Christine in DRS, and Charity in Sweet Charity.
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#13re: Roles that you have played
Posted: 3/26/06 at 3:26pmDarn I keep double posting on accident.
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DramaDork925
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/4/05
#14re: Roles that you have played
Posted: 3/26/06 at 3:35pm
What is your favorite leading role that you have played? Shelley in Bat Boy: The Musical
What is your least favorite leading role that you have played? Janet in a play called Just For Kicks
What is your favorite supporting role that you have played? Aunt Polly in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
What is your least favorite supporting role that you have played?
Jo in School House Rock Live
Have you played a role more than once?
No
Who role are you playing now(if any)?
I'm Dotty in You're A Good Man Charlie Brown
What one role would you play at the drop of a dime?
Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd, Audrey in Little Shop, Little Sally in Urinetown
Am I cut out to spend my time this way?
#15re: Roles that you have played
Posted: 3/26/06 at 3:43pm
What is your favorite leading role that you have played?
Tom Wingfield in THE GLASS MENAGERIE
What is your least favorite leading role that you have played?
Danny Zuko in GREASE
What is your favorite supporting role that you have played?
Cliff Bradshaw in CABARET
What is your least favorite supporting role that you have played?
Tulsa in GYPSY
Have you played a role more than once?
No
Who role are you playing now(if any)?
N/A
What one role would you play at the drop of a dime?
TIE: Marvin in FALSETTOS and Macheath in THE THREEPENNY OPERA
#16re: Roles that you have played
Posted: 3/26/06 at 3:48pm
What is your favorite leading role that you have played? Lenny in Rumors, or Billy in Anything Goes
What is your least favorite leading role that you have played? Phillip Glass in Phillip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread... weird...
What is your favorite supporting role that you have played? Pish Tush in The Mikado
What is your least favorite supporting role that you have played? The Herald in Cinderella
Have you played a role more than once? nope
Who role are you playing now(if any)? Our production of Anything Goes (I played Billy) just closed last night
What one role would you play at the drop of a dime? Max Bialystock in The Producers
I hold a degree in Musical Theatre from Montclair State University. It is useless. Now I'm funny for money. Oh, and I sing.
#17re: Roles that you have played
Posted: 3/26/06 at 3:58pm
What is your favorite leading role that you have played?
Jamie - "The Last 5 Years"
What is your least favorite leading role that you have played?
Orpheus - "Orpheus in the Underworld"
What is your favorite supporting role that you have played?
Lt. Cable - "South Pacific"
What one role would you play at the drop of a dime?
Bobby - "Company"
Featured Actor Joined: 12/31/69
#18re: Roles that you have played
Posted: 3/26/06 at 3:59pm
What is your favorite leading role that you have played? Smokey in Damn Yankees or Mordcha in Fiddler On The Roof w/ the Teen Players
What is your least favorite leading role that you have played? Mr. Bundles in Annie, so pointless and weird.
What is your favorite supporting role that you have played? The Purser in Anything Goes.
What is your least favorite supporting role that you have played? Angie The Ox in Guys & Dolls.
Have you played a role more than once? Yes, Mordcha The Innkeeper in Fiddler On The Roof twice.
Who role are you playing now(if any)? I was The Purser in ANYTHING GOES but our show closed last weekend.
What one role would you play at the drop of a dime? Boq in Wicked or Corny Collins/IQ in Hairspray.
Updated On: 3/26/06 at 03:59 PM
Phantour
Stand-by Joined: 6/5/03
#19re: Roles that you have played
Posted: 3/26/06 at 4:03pm
What is your favorite leading role that you have played? Paul Bratter in Barefoot in the Park.
What is your least favorite leading role that you have played? I guess the Prince in Cinderella. I loved singing the songs, but his character is shallow and he bothered me and how my directors made me play him.
What is your favorite supporting role that you have played? Thurio in The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
What is your least favorite supporting role that you have played? Rusty Charlie in Guys and Dolls, if it's even considered a supporting role.
Have you played a role more than once? No, but I have done future scenes from the show in class.
Who role are you playing now(if any)? I just finished up playing the Bailiff, Assitant Manager, and a chorus member in The Trial.
What one role would you play at the drop of a dime? If I could sing better, The Phantom in The Phantom of the Opera.
Stand-by Joined: 12/31/69
#20re: Roles that you have played
Posted: 3/26/06 at 4:04pmPhantour, Rusty is considered a supporting, but Angie The Ox isnt.
Thesbijean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/9/04
#21re: Roles that you have played
Posted: 3/26/06 at 4:09pm
What is your favorite leading role that you have played?
Jean Valjean in LES MISERABLES
What is your least favorite leading role that you have played?
Emile in SOUTH PACIFIC
What is your favorite supporting role that you have played?
Buddy Fidler in CITY OF ANGELS
Nicely-Nicely Johnson in GUYS AND DOLLS
What is your least favorite supporting role that you have played?
Mr. Bumble in OLIVER!
Have you played a role more than once?
No
Who role are you playing now (if any)?
Cheswick in ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (opposite ShbrtAlley44's Nurse Ratched)
What one role would you play at the drop of a dime?
Tevye in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
jackson992
Broadway Star Joined: 12/25/04
#22re: Roles that you have played
Posted: 3/26/06 at 4:37pm
What is your favorite leading role that you have played?
Narrator in Our Town
What is your least favorite leading role that you have played?
Mike in Wait Until Dark
What is your favorite supporting role that you have played?
Rooster in Annie
Mordred in Camelot
What is your least favorite supporting role that you have played?
Man With Glasses in The Jury Room
Have you played a role more than once?
No
Who role are you playing now (if any)?
Lon in Meet Me In St. Louis
What one role would you play at the drop of a dime?
Audrey 2,Mark in Rent,Beast in BATB
michelle4
Stand-by Joined: 10/10/05
#23re: Roles that you have played
Posted: 3/26/06 at 5:50pm
Leading Role- I don't know if it is technically a lead because it is such an ensemble piece, but Cinderella in "Into The Woods". Maggie in "Joined at the Head" for play.
Least Favorite- Don' really have one.
Supporting- Ellen in "Miss Saigon". Jennie Mae in "The Diviners" for play.
Least fav supporting- Getie in "Oklahoma". 1st dead woman in "Our Town" for play.
Role more then once- Yes, I have done Chava in "Fiddler" twice.
Role currently- none
What role at the drop of a dime- Eva in "Evita", Cathy in "Last 5 Years", Aldonza in "Man of La Mancha"
#24re: Roles that you have played
Posted: 3/26/06 at 6:00pm
What is your favorite leading role that you have played?
Pastor Ogelthorpe in Smoke on the Mountain...because of being short and not having matinee idol looks I usually am cast in a comic supporting role..so this is really my only "lead" role.
What is your least favorite leading role that you have played?
None..I have only played the lead in two shows and liked them both!
What is your favorite supporting role that you have played?
Hero in Forum and Prez in The Pajama Game (tie)
What is your least favorite supporting role that you have played?
Georgie/random Farm Boy/stage hand at the Burlesque house/annoucncer at Minsky's in Gypsy...if you are not Herbie or Tulsa there ain't much else for a guy!
Have you played a role more than once?
--Prez in Pajama Game twice
--Joseph twice..but was a different brother each time
--I played Pastor Oglethorpe 3 times. In 2 productions of Smoke on the Mountain and once in the sequel The Sanders Family Christmas
Who role are you playing now(if any)?
None...I am planning a concert series for my local theatre and will participate in a benefit concert. I am also working on a demo CD.
What one role would you play at the drop of a dime?
Leo Frank (Parade), Anatoly (Chess), Archie (The Secret Garden), Bobby (Urinetown)
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