The Official "brag about your best roles" Thread :-)

My favorite role so far has been Ursula in Bye Bye Birdie. It was such a fun role and the cast was awesome. :)

I guess my best roles would have had to be Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest. That was really fun to do. Also, Jedadiah Schultz with some other parts recently in Laramie. A lot of nice sized monologues.

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When I played a demented obese airline pilot in a play I wrote called BUCKET OF SMILES

Abby in Arsenic and Old Lace was an amazing expeirience, I had a lot of fun with that cast and role!

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I've never really had any "lead" roles, but the best part I ever played was when I was a temptress in Godspell. It was a part made up for just girls who wanted to dance. Not that the part was really big, but there was always some separation in our musicals between "dancers" and "singers" and this show brought us all together. We grew really close as a cast and I believe that I performed really well in that show too. So even though it wasn't a lead part it was still my "best role".

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Millie in Thoroughly Modern Millie, Jo in Little Women the musical, Roxy in Chicago and the Bakers Wife in Into the Woods.

Best roles everrrrr.

Lucy Van Pelt -- You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Lenya Zubritsky -- Fools
Maggie Cuttler -- The Man Who Came to Dinner

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Mother in Ragtime
Little Sally and Hope in Urinetown

I played Perchik, too, which was a lot of fun. Though, I'm a guy.

Also, Lumiere was a ton of fun to play. Occasionally on those "dream roles" threads someone mentions Lumiere and I'm just like, "hehe, I got to do that."

And Hysterium in Forum. SO much fun!

My favorites:

Musicals -

Pick-A-Little in The Music Man:

It was decided that each Pick-A-Little would have a certain personality. Mine? Eccentric. So this basically gave me a good reason to ham it up as much as possible. I invented a crazy walk for the character, had a little solo during "Wells Fargo Wagon" [which I managed to make more and more funnier by each performance] and made everyone laugh! There's no greater feeling in the world than to make people laugh (or cry). It was the most fun I ever had in a role...mainly because the directors were supportive of my character choices.


Doc in West Side Story:

I know, a female Doc? Crazy! But it totally worked. I loved this part so much...because the character has a lot of depth. I had my own set, three pretty important scenes (especially the last one), and the chance to be funny *and* make people cry all in one show. But the BEST part was that I got to slap my friend (who was playing Tony) in the face! Well, not really...

Plays -

God in The General of Hot Desire:

My director called upon me to jump in for someone else with less than a month left to competition. I pulled it off and won an award...so this role is sort of special to me - not just because of getting an award, but also because I got to work with such a great cast. And also because it was the role that got me recognized, in a sense. I got to portray God in a really bitter, "I'll pay you 20 dollars if you promise to shut up and leave me alone" sort of way which was different from any other role I'd done... it was a bit challenging, but overall a wonderful part to play.

[/end ramble] :)

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Currently I'm playing Belle in Beauty and the Beast... so that's definately the best! I was Barbara in Night of the Living Dead, which was really random and fun, Annelle in Steel Magnolias, and Amy March in Little Women. Those are my favorites from community theater. Marian Paroo in the Music Man and Asaka in Once On This Island are probably my favorite from my old school's productions.

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Anthony in Sweeney Todd
Curly in Oklahoma
Bottom in Midsummer
Ugly in Honk!

Those are probably my 4 favourite.