#26
Posted: 12/1/05 at 6:10pm
inspector foot in stoppard's after magritte. how eccentric.
Weirdest role you have ever played — Page 2
#27
Posted: 12/1/05 at 6:47pm
Not exactly relevent, but for my Les Mis, Valjean's always absent (*DIES*) so the director always asks me (Cosette!) to stand in for him... because I'm one of the few people who know almost all of Valjean's part!
I get lost, unless, of course, I'm getting found.
#28
Posted: 12/1/05 at 6:48pm
the genie from disney's aladdin in a second grade play that looking back should have landed my teacher in jail. it featured songs and scenes from;
the wizard of oz
peter pan
annie
aladdin
...and more
i had 3 lines and only one had anything to do with being the genie.
the wizard of oz
peter pan
annie
aladdin
...and more
i had 3 lines and only one had anything to do with being the genie.
"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
#29
Posted: 12/1/05 at 6:52pm
As a scrawny 7th-grade girl, I played Old King Cole (in facial hair and layers of cotton batting to make me fat) in the middle school production of "Trial of the Big Bad Wolf". Apparently, I was very convincing. The audience was shocked afterward to find out I was acually a 90 pound girl.
"`I grow old... I grow old... I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.` What does that mean, Mr. Marlowe?"
"Not a bloody thing. It just sounds good."
He smiled. "That is from the `Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.` Here's another one. `In the room women come and go/Talking of Michael Angelo.' Does that suggest anything to you, sir?"
"Yeah -- it suggests to me that the guy didn't know very much about women."
"My sentiments exactly, sir. Nonetheless I admire T. S. Eliot very much."
"Did you say, 'nonetheless'?"
- The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
#30
Posted: 12/1/05 at 7:50pm
OK sorry but jrb actor I really need to hear about this singing phone sex girl lmao anyway
In less than a year I played a black man, a frenchman, and a chinese man in 3 separate shows. AND IM WHITE. I was crooks in of mice and men and literally painted with brown makeup and yet my blue eyes were the only things people could see backstage if i was up against the curtain and I really freaked a lot of my cast members out. I was in les mis:) and I was in anything goes as one of the twins
In less than a year I played a black man, a frenchman, and a chinese man in 3 separate shows. AND IM WHITE. I was crooks in of mice and men and literally painted with brown makeup and yet my blue eyes were the only things people could see backstage if i was up against the curtain and I really freaked a lot of my cast members out. I was in les mis:) and I was in anything goes as one of the twins
#31
Posted: 12/1/05 at 7:53pm
Dude. Who produced that "Of Mice and Men"? Trent Lott? 
I forgot that I also played a role in a student film in college. It was an adaptation of Beowulf, and I was the king (Hroth-something, I haven't read Beowulf in years) -- and they wanted the part done as a Jimmy Carter impression. And I don't do impressions. And it didn't help that I was 2 years old when Jimmy Carter left office. I had a blissfully short shoot, and thank God, I never had to watch the finished product.
I forgot that I also played a role in a student film in college. It was an adaptation of Beowulf, and I was the king (Hroth-something, I haven't read Beowulf in years) -- and they wanted the part done as a Jimmy Carter impression. And I don't do impressions. And it didn't help that I was 2 years old when Jimmy Carter left office. I had a blissfully short shoot, and thank God, I never had to watch the finished product.
Updated On: 12/1/05 at 07:53 PM
#32
Posted: 12/1/05 at 8:00pm
I played a tree in CAMELOT. Twice! In two different productions, ten years apart.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#33
Posted: 12/1/05 at 8:02pm
I did Daddy Warbucks in the 4th grade because my best friend wanted to do Annie in the talent show, and she had red hair. I even had to wear a pillow!
That same year I was the first female Ebenezer Scrooge in Mickey's Christmas Carol at my elementary school because I was the only one not afraid to sing by myself.
A few years ago, I had to play a crazy old lady who killed her best friend when she was 6 or so and kept her in a trunk in her attic for 50 years, I cannot even remember the name of the play. It was a one act and it was terrible!
That same year I was the first female Ebenezer Scrooge in Mickey's Christmas Carol at my elementary school because I was the only one not afraid to sing by myself.
A few years ago, I had to play a crazy old lady who killed her best friend when she was 6 or so and kept her in a trunk in her attic for 50 years, I cannot even remember the name of the play. It was a one act and it was terrible!
"But now the air is filled with confusion. We replace care with illusion."
#34
Posted: 12/1/05 at 8:51pm
I played Oberon in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" TWICE in the course of two years. Not so much a weird role as it is weird circumstances.. both school productions, both hideous.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#35
Posted: 12/1/05 at 8:59pm
Dude. Who produced that "Of Mice and Men"? Trent Lott?
Hahaha. That was wonderful.
Ummm, I would have to say the weirdest role I ever played was Jonah in a 6th grade church musical entitled "Oh, Jonah!"
Yes, I'm serious. I got pushed overboard and actually got "swallowed" by a "whale" that looked like a giant blue tube sock (it was a huuuuge blue sheet draped over a plastic structure-thing)... very special, indeed.
I also played a tree in the "Wizard of Oz" a couple summers ago... that was fun though, because we weren't evil trees, we sang back up for the Tin Man. The scarecrow had backup crows. Oh, and I was in the Lollipop Guild, too. *shudder*
Hahaha. That was wonderful.
Ummm, I would have to say the weirdest role I ever played was Jonah in a 6th grade church musical entitled "Oh, Jonah!"
Yes, I'm serious. I got pushed overboard and actually got "swallowed" by a "whale" that looked like a giant blue tube sock (it was a huuuuge blue sheet draped over a plastic structure-thing)... very special, indeed.
I also played a tree in the "Wizard of Oz" a couple summers ago... that was fun though, because we weren't evil trees, we sang back up for the Tin Man. The scarecrow had backup crows. Oh, and I was in the Lollipop Guild, too. *shudder*
#36
Posted: 12/1/05 at 9:13pm
I got to play Naomi in Christopher Durang's "Naomi in the Livingroom." Being obsess with the couch in the living room isnt exactly me, so that was weird. My costume was Weird, Running through the audience singing they're coming to take me away scared quite a few people. Weird, yet the best role i've gotten to play i'd say!
~~EM~~
~~EM~~
#37
Posted: 12/1/05 at 9:23pm
When I was younger and at an all-girls camp we did Willy Wonka and I was Willy. It was actually one of the most ridiculous things ever. I was 10 and they made me spend so much time on that stupid fall/roll thing that he does with his cane...
#38
Posted: 12/1/05 at 9:29pm
Pellinore in Camelot. That character is completely different from who I am in real life.
#39
Posted: 12/1/05 at 9:38pm
I'm not an actress. But in fourth grade I was "Meatball #1" (or was it 2?) in Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs.
#40
Posted: 12/1/05 at 9:54pm
"Young Thing" in Hello, Again
"...But Kungurtseva reels off multiple fouettes and the tape is stopped so she can take a bow. The Jester, an abomination introduced to Swan Lake in Soviet times, extorts applause from the audience. The cuts don't help the storytelling, the production is bare bones and they go for the '50s-style happy ending.
The audience cheers like mad at the end. It's the Russian ballet, after all..."
#41
Posted: 12/1/05 at 10:26pm
mikewood: I love 'denity Crisis! I played the mother in a college pruduction, such fun. I shall never look at bananas in the same way again. Our Sommers were both horrid, unfortunately.
Two more odd roles of mine:
A Polynesian native (Bloody Mary's assistant) in "South Pacific"
One of the wives of the king in "The King and I"
as you can see in my pic, I am reeeeally white so I got to get acquainted with the myriad joys of sunless tanner and body makeup. Yuk!
Two more odd roles of mine:
A Polynesian native (Bloody Mary's assistant) in "South Pacific"
One of the wives of the king in "The King and I"
as you can see in my pic, I am reeeeally white so I got to get acquainted with the myriad joys of sunless tanner and body makeup. Yuk!
"We are all misfits, I guess, in the theatre. Otherwise we wouldn't be here." ~Michael Kandel, "Ogre"
#42
Posted: 12/1/05 at 10:28pm
In repsonse to the Of Mice and Men comment, I go to school in Massapequa, Long Island. In the listings of percentage of white students, ours was basically the highest on long island with 98% of our school white. Its RIDICULOUS, all you find here are rich jewish families or the rich italians(No disrespect to any of these groups, but come move in here and you will see what I mean). Our town is comprised of some of the biggest wannabe-Hamptons and beverly hills residents in the country. Thus in a DRAMA at a school where LAX and our football teams are our highest priority, you will not find one non-white person in our shows. Thus whenever they need any race-casting, it seems thats always me.
Oh yeah and many of our guys are usually played by girls. When Whit gave the whole thing about the whorehouse and how he liked the girls, I never let my friend forget it
Oh yeah and many of our guys are usually played by girls. When Whit gave the whole thing about the whorehouse and how he liked the girls, I never let my friend forget it
#43
Posted: 12/1/05 at 10:36pm
Yeah, I was Building Block #2 in The Velveteen Rabbit in 5th grade. I and the other 3 blocks spelled out a Dick and Jane story. It was pretty sweet.
"forget regret <3, I love your post.....you give me hope for the next generation!" -Elphaba
#44
Posted: 12/1/05 at 10:47pm
...a dodo bird in a production of Alice in Wonderland lol
and my claim to fame... the talking pitcher of bug juice in a very, very forgettable camp play lol
and my claim to fame... the talking pitcher of bug juice in a very, very forgettable camp play lol
#45
Posted: 12/1/05 at 10:57pm
Nancy in an all-male production of Bye Bye Birdie.
"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey
#46
Posted: 12/1/05 at 10:58pm
Ed in Degas, C’est Moi, that was so much fun. Wierd yes, but fun.
#47
Posted: 12/1/05 at 11:16pm
Shelley Parker in Bat Boy... although she's more or less an ingenue (although I think there's more to her than that) (spoiler...) I think that the whole sex with her bat brother thing just makes her very weird. And even weirder still, she truely loves him. Ah, I miss playing that part.
Am I cut out to spend my time this way?
#48
Posted: 12/1/05 at 11:16pm
...for me...
Mock Turtle in Alice in Wonderland... and also the walrus of the walrus and the carpenter in that show...
and the sad thing is that everyone who mentioned that show said like 7th grade...yeah I did that show my junior year of high school...which makes it weirder.
EDIT:
OOOOOH and Reverend Hale in our all female cast of the Crucible.
I went to an all girls catholic school that had 200 girls total...not many guys tried out for our shows.
Mock Turtle in Alice in Wonderland... and also the walrus of the walrus and the carpenter in that show...
and the sad thing is that everyone who mentioned that show said like 7th grade...yeah I did that show my junior year of high school...which makes it weirder.
EDIT:
OOOOOH and Reverend Hale in our all female cast of the Crucible.
I went to an all girls catholic school that had 200 girls total...not many guys tried out for our shows.
"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit"
-Feste from "Twelfth Night"
Updated On: 12/1/05 at 11:16 PM
#50
Posted: 12/2/05 at 12:41am
I played Mr. Baquin in "Slaughter City" in college. Very strange play in which my character turned into a cow at the end.
You are young, life has been kind to you. You will learn.
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