Roles you HATED playing...
Roles you HATED playing...
aces25
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/13/04
#3re: Roles you HATED playing...
Posted: 4/12/06 at 5:10pmI hardly ever hate a role than I'm playing. PRODUCTIONS on the other hand...
#4re: Roles you HATED playing...
Posted: 4/12/06 at 5:12pm
Roles such as the delivery person and in that role you knew the director had just forgot to cast you because your line was like "Yes, here are the intrinsic qualifications all sealed up" - a line nobody cares about and seems to difficult to comprehend and it's obvious the director just shoved it in for you so you wouldn't be TOO embarassed cause your part sucked..
On the other hand..if that's what it takes for you to be the lead in the next show then I'm all for it..that happened in my case 
And the other thing about the Phantom Lady was, Bert, she realized, in the city that never sleeps...
What did she realize, Kitten?
That all the songs she'd listened to, all the love songs, that they were only songs.
What's wrong with that?
Nothing, if you don't believe in them. But she did, you see. She believed in enchanted evenings, and she believed that a small cloud passed overhead and cried down on a flower bed, and she even believed there was breakfast to be had...
Where?
On Pluto. The mysterious, icy wastes of Pluto.
jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#5re: Roles you HATED playing...
Posted: 4/12/06 at 5:16pmvoice double to daddy warbucks in annie- i stood in the ensemble and "helped" him sing nyc and new deal for christmas(the latter hidden off stage)
"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
#6re: Roles you HATED playing...
Posted: 4/12/06 at 5:26pmI played two roles in The Sound of Music, one of them being part of the nun chorus. Nothing beats those Gregorian chants, man...
misto625
Broadway Star Joined: 11/10/05
#7re: Roles you HATED playing...
Posted: 4/12/06 at 6:40pmI think jonartdesigns wins. I can't imagine much worse jobs than that. Well actually I probably can, but that does suck. You have my sympathy.
Dean: Can I tell you something?
Lorraine: That depends on what it is.
Dean: I think you're really really pretty.
Lorraine: (after a pause) Ok, you can tell me that.
Over_the_Moon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/22/05
#8re: Roles you HATED playing...
Posted: 4/12/06 at 6:48pmVocal ensemble for Once Upon a Mattress, if you can call that a role. There weren't enough males in the chorus, so I stood offstage and sang in all the numbers. No stage time, no costume, no credit.
"what have we learned? Don't smoke... don't do drugs and don't sing 'Defying Gravity'." -CATSNYRevival
alwy15
Stand-by Joined: 4/26/04
#9re: Roles you HATED playing...
Posted: 4/12/06 at 9:00pmi'm gonna get yelled at, but i found playing the emcee in cabaret completely disengaging.
#10re: Roles you HATED playing...
Posted: 4/12/06 at 9:36pmI was an astonishingly young Julian Marsh in '42nd Street.' (I mean, I was about 23 or 24.) Just a role I wasn't remotely right for and I was never comfortable onstage. I've never felt that out of place onstage before.
#11re: Roles you HATED playing...
Posted: 4/12/06 at 9:48pm
I played the role of a heterosexual for 19 years straight. I hated that role. I was never able to master it, like the great actors of Hollywood.
Updated On: 4/12/06 at 09:48 PM
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#12re: Roles you HATED playing...
Posted: 4/12/06 at 9:51pm
Daddy Warbucks in ANNIE. We had a communal dressing room. I couldn't stand listening to the jabber of those damned girls--and their mothers!
Besides, it took 6 months for my hair to grow back!
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#13re: Roles you HATED playing...
Posted: 4/12/06 at 9:57pmMrs. Harcourt in Anything Goes is a totally thankless role!
[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.
kyguy78
Broadway Star Joined: 1/12/06
#14re: Roles you HATED playing...
Posted: 4/12/06 at 10:00pm
My story may not be as painful as jonartdesigns, but it's very similiar.
When I was a freshman in high school, we did "Grease," but the guy they cast as Danny could not sing to save his life. The drama teacher liked casting seniors in the leads as their send off from the theater and he definitely had the look to play the leader of the T-Birds. I was stood in the wings and voice-doubled him for most of the songs in the show. At least it was a fun show and the songs were fun to sing.
Updated On: 4/12/06 at 10:00 PM
#15re: Roles you HATED playing...
Posted: 4/12/06 at 10:04pmNo one will sympathize since it is a dream role for many, but I hate the Music Man... and I WAS The Music Man... I performed to sold out houses daily, but still it was nowhere near as fun as my most recent run as Gaston or my current run as Cornelius in Hello, Dolly!
It's the music and I'm its hapless victim
#16re: Roles you HATED playing...
Posted: 4/12/06 at 11:03pmThe Indian in The Fantasticks. Boring when you don't have a fun partner.
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actorgal
Chorus Member Joined: 12/26/05
#17re: Roles you HATED playing...
Posted: 4/13/06 at 12:01amAdd me to the offstage vocal ensemble crowd...my old school did "The Wiz", and I had to sing overtop of some of the cast because it sounded so bad.
I mean, you tell me, who would you rather meet in a dark alley? Whatever's out there, or that geezer with his four hundred knives? I mean, who packs four hundred knives? Personally, I only have space for two hundred, three hundred at most.
Matters
Stand-by Joined: 10/7/05
#18re: Roles you HATED playing...
Posted: 4/13/06 at 12:44amLt. Schrank. No question. Good role but not for a high school student watching everyone else have fun.
Canadians are not afraid of the dark! Ok...we don't love it, but who does?
#19re: Roles you HATED playing...
Posted: 4/13/06 at 12:55ammatters, wow lol, that must have sucked. we got teachers to be the adults in my highschool prod. of wss
"talent is wanting something hard enough to work for it" - my drama teacher :)
#20re: Roles you HATED playing...
Posted: 4/13/06 at 2:30amThe mamouth in Skin Of Our Teeth
"I never had theatre producers run after me. Some people want to make more Broadway shows out of movies. But Elliot and I aren't going to do Batman: The Musical." - Julie Taymor 1999
#21re: Roles you HATED playing...
Posted: 4/13/06 at 2:36amDomina in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, but part of the reason was because I had just come out of playing Mae in Bye Bye Birdie and felt like it was the same character (albeit less developed) in a different costume.
"It's not for sissies, contrary to popular belief." - Tommy Tune, on musical theatre.
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#22re: Roles you HATED playing...
Posted: 4/13/06 at 4:30am
Tommy Djilas in "The Music Man"
It wasn't so much the role but that I was ready to be done with the show after opening night, even though we were playing to sold out crowds. WHY DO PEOPLE LIKE THE MUSIC MAN????
"You know just because you put a smiley face after it doesn't change the fact that it was an a-hole comment." ~ Sumofallthings
Updated On: 4/13/06 at 04:30 AM
gumbo2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/21/05
#23re: Roles you HATED playing...
Posted: 4/13/06 at 4:54amHmm, well at least you were Tommy Djilas instead of going for that role and getting beat out by a guy who was not right for it at ALL and being stuck in the TEEN ENSEMBLE. But my least favorite was The Wiz, I was Uncle Henry/Emerald Citizen/Winkie/Pit Voice/a Tree. It could have been fun but it was just a terrible production.
BwayBaby18
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/19/05
#24re: Roles you HATED playing...
Posted: 4/13/06 at 6:42am
Being stuck in the teen ensemble blows big time for the Music Man....... there was only one thing that made my production better... hair and make up.... on closing night i curled my slicked back hair and did my make up a la Christina Applegate in Sweet Charity.
My best friend who played Marion her and still talk about how outrageous i looked by the time it rolled around to do Shipoopi
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