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Roles you wished you could play.......if you were the opposite sex.....

Posted: 2/4/05 at 12:24pm

Weird Topic, I know.....but don't tell me you've never thought about it. Well, I've always been found of Eponine from Les Miserable, Petra from A Little Night Music and Millie from Throughly Modern Millie and Fraulin Schiender in Cabaret, Louise in Gypsy, Diana in A Chorus Line, Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart(she has better songs than Roxie, but I might could play Roxie better), Sarah in Ragtime(although I'd have to be black too).

Updated On: 2/11/05 at 12:24 PM

#2

re: Roles you wished you could play.......if you were the opposite sex.....

Posted: 2/4/05 at 12:29pm

if i could act and if i could sing, i would be mark in rent or the emcee in cabaret.
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
#10

re: Roles you wished you could play.......if you were the opposite sex.....

Posted: 2/4/05 at 2:08pm

Eva Peron - Evita
Elphaba - Wicked
Witch - Into the Woods
Rose - Gypsy
Velma - Chicago
Effie - Dreamgirls
Grizabella - Cats
Mrs. Lovett - Sweeney Todd
Mother - Ragtime
ti Moune - Once on this Island
Eliza - My Fair lady
Queenie - Wild party (La Chuisa)
Kim - Miss Saigon
Fanny - Funny Girl
Adelaide - Guys & Dolls
Norma Desmond - Sunset Blvd.

funny story - I was music directing Sweeney Todd in college and our mrs. Lovett was having vocal problems for the final dress. So, she got up and did the blocking while I was on her mike doing her songs/dialogue. Some of the lines came out like Bea Arthur. Funny but productive.

Updated On: 2/4/05 at 02:08 PM

#11

re: Roles you wished you could play.......if you were the opposite sex.....

Posted: 2/4/05 at 2:09pm

If I was the opposite sex AND if I was black... Effie.

I've already sang "And I Am Telling You" at a cabaret. Lord, I'm a skank...
Eeeeeeyyyyyyyyaaaaaaaannnnnddddd aaaaaaaiiiiiiiiyyyyyyaaaaaammmmmmmm teeeeeeeelllllliiiiiinnngg yyyyooooooouuuuuuuwwwaaaahh...
#15

re: Roles you wished you could play.......if you were the opposite sex.....

Posted: 2/4/05 at 3:05pm

John Adams or Thomas Jefferson in 1776.
"This is what I trained to do, and this is what I love about theater. What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being. And out my own self, to shape and form and fashion a real human being--and to present that in such a way that people see something of themselves or their own understanding in that human being." --Phylicia Rashad
#18

re: Roles you wished you could play.......if you were the opposite sex.....

Posted: 2/4/05 at 3:18pm

the 3 female leads in PLAZA SUITE and THE APPLE TREE

Martha in WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?

Eliza in MY FAIR LADY

Mame in MAME

Dolly in HELLO DOLLY

Rose in GYPSY

Lucille in No,No, Nannette

the lead role (was the charachter named Evie?) in THE GINERBREAD LADY

Evita in EVITA

Fanny in FUNNY GIRL

and with some color changes:

Effie in DREAMGIRLS

and Lena Younger in RAISIN
"Blow out the candles Robert and make a wish. Want something, want SOMETHING."
#20

re: Roles you wished you could play.......if you were the opposite sex.....

Posted: 2/4/05 at 3:21pm

I love that you created this thread! Whenever I see a show with an amazing male role that I would want, I always tell my mom that I found yet another role that I would crave if I were a guy. Here are a few:
Mother's Younger Brother (Ragtime)
Beast (Beauty and the Beast)
Valjean (Les Miz)
Judas (Jesus Christ Superstar)
Applegate (Damn Yankees)
Chris (Miss Saigon)
Don Quixote (Man of La Mancha)
#22

re: Roles you wished you could play.......if you were the opposite sex.....

Posted: 2/4/05 at 5:20pm

Sweeney (Sweeney Todd...)
Javert (Les Miserables)
Bobby (Company)
Albin (La Cage Aux Folles)
Roger or Carmen (The Producers)
Charlie Brown or Schroeder (YAGMCB)
Henry Higgins (My Fair Lady)

I'll post more if I ever think of them...

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