The hardest role and the most fun you have ever had onstage. — Page 2

#26

re: The hardest role and the most fun you have ever had onstage.

Posted: 4/14/05 at 9:42am

Hardest and Most fun: Curley's Wife in Of Mice and Men
I was black and blue, had to play dead for about 10 minutes, and one night George got a little too overzealous and threw me halfway across the stage, but I have never had so much fun!

#27

re: The hardest role and the most fun you have ever had onstage.

Posted: 4/14/05 at 10:15am

The funnest time I have ever had on stage was with my theatre company when we led "Boom-Chika-Boom" with the little kids. You really had to be there it was the cutest thing EVER!!!! Plus you have the freedom to basically do anything it was like so my fun

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#28

re: The hardest role and the most fun you have ever had onstage.

Posted: 4/14/05 at 10:28am

Most fun: Jonathon Brewster - ARSENIC AND OLD LACe

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"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman

#29

re: The hardest role and the most fun you have ever had onstage.

Posted: 4/14/05 at 10:38am

honestly..none of the parts i have played have been all that hard. i prefer to be in the ensamble because i am a dancer and all the best dance bits are for the ensamble...so i guess with that in mind i would say:

hardest-sweet charity.....we did the original fosse frug choreography

most fun-into the woods cinderella's mother...i got to travel all around the southeastern us with that show

#30

re: The hardest role and the most fun you have ever had onstage.

Posted: 4/14/05 at 10:45am

Hardest acting wise: Orsino in 12th Night. Very hard when you and the director have completely conflicting views on the character.

Hardest singing: tie between Seymore in Little Shop, tons of songs and pushing my tenor range to the limit, and Vittorio in Sweet Charity. The song was out of my range and I only had 3 one on one musical rehearsals before we started run throughs. Tough for a boy who doesn't read music.


Most fun was either Teddy in Arsenic or Carl Magnus in Little Night Music.

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#31

re: The hardest role and the most fun you have ever had onstage.

Posted: 4/14/05 at 10:46am

Hardest- Maria WSS
Most fun- Guinevere Camelot

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#32

re: The hardest role and the most fun you have ever had onstage.

Posted: 4/14/05 at 10:54am

Most difficult -- Evita or Cassie in ACL
Most fun -- Princess Winnifred (Once upon a Mattress)

#33

re: The hardest role and the most fun you have ever had onstage.

Posted: 4/14/05 at 10:58am

Most Fun- Ali Hakim (Oklahoma)
Most Challenging- Swing, and u/s for two leads (42nd Street)

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#34

re: The hardest role and the most fun you have ever had onstage.

Posted: 4/14/05 at 11:52am

Hardest: Prof. Harold Hill

Most Fun: Charlie Brown in YAGMCB, and Seymour in LSOH!

#35

re: The hardest role and the most fun you have ever had onstage.

Posted: 4/14/05 at 12:06pm

Fiddler on the Roof. Not because it is hard, but because we have been rehearsing for 5 months (I swear) for a total of 5 performances and the chorographer hasn't set any of the choreography for any of the numbers. This show has just been a lesson in patience!

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#36

re: The hardest role and the most fun you have ever had onstage.

Posted: 4/14/05 at 12:21pm

I agree with Princess Winnifred being SUCH a fun role-- Im playing her now, and everyday you come up with something crazy and new to add to her... I LOVE IT!!!

#37

re: The hardest role and the most fun you have ever had onstage.

Posted: 4/14/05 at 12:29pm

Playing Ned Weeks in "The Normal Heart." The first act is relentless...and the second act just rips you to pieces.

#38

re: The hardest role and the most fun you have ever had onstage.

Posted: 4/14/05 at 12:34pm

The Hardest: That is a toss up between Oberon in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and The Baker in "Into The Woods"

Most Fun: Definitly Willard in "Footloose"

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#39

re: The hardest role and the most fun you have ever had onstage.

Posted: 4/14/05 at 12:36pm

HARDEST- Cassie in Chorus Line. I still have an injury from "Music and the Mirror" im a junior at swarthmore college by the way.

FUN- Lady Macbeth. hands down the most fun ive ever had on stage playing this incredibly complex woman. it was amazing

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#40

re: The hardest role and the most fun you have ever had onstage.

Posted: 4/14/05 at 12:57pm

I played King Creon in "Antigone" for a year. Since nearly all of my lines were page-long monologues, it was hard for me to memorize, let alone break each one down and make it fresh at each performance. The character was also a complete 180 of my off-stage personality, and I somehow managed to scare a lot of people that I knew very well.

Looking back on the experience, I wouldn't have given it up for anything.

#41

re: The hardest role and the most fun you have ever had onstage.

Posted: 4/14/05 at 1:20pm

Hardest and most fun - Usher/Samovar the Lawyer in A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine

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#42

re: The hardest role and the most fun you have ever had onstage.

Posted: 4/14/05 at 1:27pm

Hey WINDYCITY waht production did u do i did NYC

#43

re: The hardest role and the most fun you have ever had onstage.

Posted: 4/14/05 at 1:46pm

Hardest- The young one in "sottopasagio" It is a show about homeless life in Florence Italy and my character had to slowly get crazier and crazier, but he had to have this very naive side to him.

Most Fun- I am playing J. Pierpont Finch right now and it is a BLAST. Others include Mushnik in LSOH and The king in Sleeping Beauty.

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David walked into the valley With a stone clutched in his hand He was only a boy But he knew someone must take a stand There will always be a valley Always mountains one must scale There will always be perilous waters Which someone must sail -Into the Fire Scarlet Pimpernel

#44

re: The hardest role and the most fun you have ever had onstage.

Posted: 4/14/05 at 3:05pm

Bobby Child. Crazy for You

#45

re: The hardest role and the most fun you have ever had onstage.

Posted: 4/14/05 at 3:46pm

Hardest: Anita in West Side Story. Had a drill seargent of a choreaographer...and a lot of lifts in Dance at the Gym.

Most Fun: Lola in Damn Yankees.

#46

re: The hardest role and the most fun you have ever had onstage.

Posted: 4/14/05 at 3:50pm

In my limited performance experience...

hardest: Bobby in A Chorus Line. I've never played funny before.

most fun on stage: West Side Story. I was Chino. It's not a "fun" show per se, but the experience/cast was definitely the most fun I've ever had.

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#47

re: The hardest role and the most fun you have ever had onstage.

Posted: 4/14/05 at 4:55pm

Hardest: Tim in SOME EXPLICIT POLAROIDS

Most Fun: Bob in DOWN SOUTH

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#48

re: The hardest role and the most fun you have ever had onstage.

Posted: 4/14/05 at 5:19pm

Hardest AND Most Fun - Jack in Into the Woods

-The role wasn't the hardest, but the experience.

Updated On: 4/14/05 at 05:19 PM

#49

re: The hardest role and the most fun you have ever had onstage.

Posted: 4/14/05 at 5:19pm

Double post...

Updated On: 4/14/05 at 05:19 PM

#50

re: The hardest role and the most fun you have ever had onstage.

Posted: 4/14/05 at 5:39pm

Hardest - John Proctor, Crucible (still playing the role)
Most Fun - Oscar Madison, Odd Couple OR Armand Goldman, Birdcage

Updated On: 4/14/05 at 05:39 PM