Tour de Force Roles for Men- HELP!- Page 2

[maybethistime]

Posted: 8/11/09 at 6:01pm

George in SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
Guido in NINE
The Leading Player in PIPPIN
Albin in LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
The Emcee in CABARET

Updated On: 8/11/09 at 06:01 PM

[myshikobit]

Posted: 8/11/09 at 9:14pm

Some really hard ones- not the hardest, just interesting problems

Male Roles- Little Me.... wow that's difficult. The costume changes and different characters. Perfect comic timing... wow

Zero in Adding Machine- Incredibly unlikeable character, intense mental breakdown, onstage most of the time

Ben and Buddy in Follies (they both have two equally challenging aspects; both need you to switch from Harold Hill showman to Sweeney intense character psychology... all Sondheim, really)

Giorgio in Passion (you need serious leg muscles for all that standing and listening- it'll probably destroy your legs, actually. Then you need to make falling in love with Fosca realistic)

Humbert in Lolita, My Love (yeah that's death- selling the character to the audience while not betraying the book; that's why no one could play Humbert as he was written in the original. Humbert is ten times worse than Pierpointte, Mack and Joey combined)

Mack in Mack and Mabel; Joey in Pal Joey- Selling the character without betraying him

I'm playing Capt. Hook right now, which I keep on wanting to justify as tour-de-force because I come home every day drained out of my mind and character analysis was difficult because there was so little character there. Ah, I'm a little bitch ;p