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Weirdest role you have ever played
#50re: Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/2/05 at 10:35am
Mabel in Fame
I am a White Jewish Alto from Jersey and I am playing a Fat Black Soprano who runs around screaming "Wake up fool!"
It was just sooooooooooooo wrong.
When someone blunders, we say that he makes a misstep. Is it then not clear that all the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill our history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing. - Moliere
#51re: Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/2/05 at 10:35am
Mabel in Fame
I am a White Jewish Alto from Jersey and I am playing a Fat Black Soprano who runs around screaming "Wake up fool!"
It was just sooooooooooooo wrong.
When someone blunders, we say that he makes a misstep. Is it then not clear that all the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill our history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing. - Moliere
DramaDork925
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/4/05
#52re: Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/2/05 at 6:15pmI cannot believe I forgot this one! Last year I was in a production of a play called "The Museum" and I played a patron of the Museum, Blakey, who was a college student. Blakey falls in love with a piece of art (a clothesline, specifically... yup weird show) and wants to hang herself up on it and become part of it and is thrown out of the Museum. My take was that she was a touch mentally unstable but my director says "No... play it like you're stoned." Riiight. Nothing about the character says she should be stoned but I did it anyway... no one really got it. I got a lot of laughs when I was dragged off kicking and screaming, though. Well, since that show I've sworn off plays... I have yet to be in a good one.
Am I cut out to spend my time this way?
LilMiZBroADwaY23
Broadway Star Joined: 8/11/04
#54re: Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/2/05 at 9:17pm
I played a cucumber...
yes, in 'Once upon a shoe' I believe it was called, and it was based upon mother goose telling her poems. In one of them, I don't know which, I was a cucumber. I was also Jill (of Jack and Jill fame) and also part of a wall for humpty dumpty to sit on.
#55re: Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/2/05 at 9:36pmI was a dancing frog in "Honk!" (the musical version of the story of the ugly duckling) last summer. Its weird because I was a frog. enough said.
Without You, the hand gropes, the ear hears, the pulse beats. Life goes on, but I'm gone cause I die without you.
#56re: Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/2/05 at 9:37pm
I was a Jedi Knight in a workshop of a musical about a woman who wants plastic surgery and ends up with three boobs. That weird enough to qualify?
... and as far as weird coincidences go...
Since my Freshman year of college in '03, I have played Lucy Brown ("Threepenny Opera"), Sarah Brown ("Guys and Dolls") and Charlie Brown ("You're a Good Man.."). Made mention of it in my last bio, too. Dunno if I'll be cast in the next show... there's no Brown in there. 
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sweeneyfan
Stand-by Joined: 11/29/05
#57re: Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/2/05 at 10:38pmIn 9th grade, I made my stage debut as Sancho Panza's Ass (as in donkey) in Man of La Mancha... oddly enough, in the same show, I was a muleteer (mule driver)... no wonder I'm a mess...
"Cor! me bones is weary!" -Mrs. Lovett
RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
#58re: Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/2/05 at 10:43pmBack in the day (I.E. about 8 years ago) my first "big production" - which in reality is a small scale community theater - was in the King & I. I played a Guard who did not sing or have any lines. All i did was stand there. I didn't get to move or allow ppl to enter, I just stood there. and then exited. I had to put on a whole thing of foundation just to make me look tan. I even learned all these songs and stuff, but didnt actually get to sing them. It sucked. But I played the part to the best of my ability.
#59re: Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/2/05 at 10:47pm
Mikewood: Hee. I'm directing 'Dentity Crisis right now. It's fuuunnn. Especially when the potato chips litter the stage and the bananas fall over. Our costume designer had fun, too.
When I was in 12, I played a senile old woman in a Chekhov parody. Of course, I didn't know anything at all about Chekhov, so I doubt I was very effective.
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#60re: Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/2/05 at 10:49pm
"Back in the day (I.E. about 8 years ago) my first "big production" - which in reality is a small scale community theater - was in the King & I."
ah our school is doing The King & I this year for our big musical. it should be..... interesting....
Without You, the hand gropes, the ear hears, the pulse beats. Life goes on, but I'm gone cause I die without you.
#61re: Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/2/05 at 11:08pmDramaDork...my school's theatre class did The Museum last year. Good idea swearing off plays...let's leave it at that. :)
TheatreSlave
Understudy Joined: 11/3/05
#62re: Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/3/05 at 5:05am
Wicked_fan- Don;t feel bad about doing Alicein Wonderland in high school.. I've done the show twice. The first time, as a college student (Queen of Hearts), and most recently 2 years ago (at age 29- Tweedle Dum). I think this is an incredibly fun show to do. Weird, yes, but still fun.
LilMiz...- A cucumber! I will forbear to comment. (Smartasse's Code if Honir- If it's too easy, son't go there ;-P )
Liz_Bennett- I would love to direct 'denity! Crisis! Such a fun show.
I'm so glad that people seem to like this thread.
And I just got an idea for another one....
"We are all misfits, I guess, in the theatre. Otherwise we wouldn't be here." ~Michael Kandel, "Ogre"
Cenoern
Stand-by Joined: 10/26/05
#63re: Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/3/05 at 12:55pmSenior (!) year of High School, King of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland. So strange, so strange...
beyondthebreakofday
Understudy Joined: 9/16/05
#64re: Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/3/05 at 11:00pm
forget regret <3: I also performed in the Velveteen Rabbit when I was younger. I played one of the narrators(The director split the part between my twin sister and I). Funny that you were one of the blocks. Do you remember when the blocks are supposed to be insulting the rabbit and are supposed to spell "sick" to insult him? Well, our blocks spelled "Dick". Apparently Building Block #1 wasn't paying too much attention. To make it worse it was a school show so the whole audience was elementary and middle school children.
Rentboy86: I too performed in "The King and I" when I was very young. It was one of my very first productions with adults and professionals. I was on stage for a total of one scene: The "Uncle Tom's Cabin" sequence. I stood on stage and clapped two wooden blocks together while singing "Run Eliza, Run!"
Updated On: 12/3/05 at 11:00 PM
#65re: Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/3/05 at 11:04pmWhen I did "Dear Edwina" for a summer theatre camp this year in my town, I played Scary Uncle Vladimir, from Transylvania, "a suburb in Cincinatti." I had to sing about a monstrous (Literally) child who can't behave. It made me an overnight sensation in my town, I think, though...
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DramaDork925
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/4/05
#66re: Weirdest role you have ever played
Posted: 12/3/05 at 11:16pmFeline- I am a frog in HONK now... and a goose, the Old Woman, in the Elegy Choir and the Camerabird. They kinda threw me in everything.
Am I cut out to spend my time this way?
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