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What was your favorite play/musical you yourself have been in?
DivaMommy
Featured Actor Joined: 5/20/03
#25re: What was your favorite play/musical you yourself have been in?
Posted: 7/28/04 at 9:30pm
Once On This Island - Andrea - It wasn't the role so much as the incredible show itself, the amazing ensemble cast and superp choreography. I miss that show like I've missed no other show!
Also, My Fair Lady - Eliza Doolittle - It was a blast to get to dress up and tackle such a challenging role! SOOO much work, but worth it!
I just did a little melodrama version of cinderella that my husband wrote. I was a stepsister! It was fun to be the bad girl. And, we sang Strongest Suit from Aida. It fit perfectly! That's me as the stepsister in my icon.
...and your children start to leave you from the moment they are born.
ponine24601
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/03
#26re: What was your favorite play/musical you yourself have been in?
Posted: 7/28/04 at 9:32pmbeautiful! i agree that eliza is a hard role to handle (i played her at a local theatre for three weeks). it was a fun role. i love to dress us and be someone i'm not.
"People asking questions, lost in confusion. Well I tell them there's no problems, only solutions."
~The one and only John Lennon
#27re: What was your favorite play/musical you yourself have been in?
Posted: 7/28/04 at 10:24pmi loved playing seymour in little shop.
#28re: What was your favorite play/musical you yourself have been in?
Posted: 7/28/04 at 10:48pmStanley in Brighton Beach Memoirs because it was my first time playing someone who was actually my age, where I was playing adults in high school shows prior to that. Also, I really learned a lot about acting during that show, and my 'family' for Brighton Beach was so close so it made all the acting and emotions so much easier to use on stage. I think it was my favorite because I learned a lot about myself and a lot of the potential I have as an actor. Not to sound conceited, but you know what I mean.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#29re: What was your favorite play/musical you yourself have been in?
Posted: 7/28/04 at 10:52pmWas anyone ever in a show that just totally confused the hell out of them? For A Midsummer Night's Dream, my drama teacher had this idea to have it take place in a department store, and the fairies be mannequins. To this day, I understood the script, but I still don't understand the concept of how it was being done.
#30re: What was your favorite play/musical you yourself have been in?
Posted: 7/28/04 at 10:53pmI love crazy drama teachers! And substitutes. My teacher this year was out because she was having a baby, and we had this whacko substitute come in to cover the class for a few months. She said that she remembered coming out of the womb as a newborn and that there is a 'terrorist' inside her that makes her afraid to be outgoing as an actress. But she calls it a 'terrorista' because it is 'feminine.' It was terrifying to be in that room...
#31re: What was your favorite play/musical you yourself have been in?
Posted: 7/29/04 at 12:43am
favorite school show:
Scarlet Pimpernel...Marie
favorite community show:
Godspell...Joanne
Idina: Somehow I got myself to the stage, came out at the end of the show, and I had some kind of closure.
Some guy: You looked great!
Idina: Thanks...I WAS SO HIGH! 8/21/05
Some guy: You looked great!
Idina: Thanks...I WAS SO HIGH! 8/21/05
broadwaystar2b
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/04
#32re: What was your favorite play/musical you yourself have been in?
Posted: 7/29/04 at 1:16am
As of now:
Play- I Never Saw Another Butterfly
Musical- Anything Goes
#33re: What was your favorite play/musical you yourself have been in?
Posted: 7/29/04 at 4:51am
It's a tossup
Sylvia St. Croix....Ruthless the Musical
Rizzo....Grease
Deet: Shira, I Love You!
LittleBroken
Chorus Member Joined: 7/20/04
#34re: What was your favorite play/musical you yourself have been in?
Posted: 7/29/04 at 7:15am
I loved being Nancy in Oliver and Dorothy in The Wizard Of Oz to death. Those will always be my favorites.
But my favorite musical to actually be in was Godspell even though I didnt like my part (I was the one that sang By My Side.) I love that play because the actors get so much say in the creation of the project and free reign to add lib and have tons of fun.
judy_in_disguise
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/31/04
#35re: What was your favorite play/musical you yourself have been in?
Posted: 7/29/04 at 9:18am
ahhh so hard to choose!
Straight play: Brighton Beach Memoirs (Laurie). This was one of the first straight plays I did and it was a huge learning experience for me. Plus, the small cast was amazing, and the show got incredible reviews!
Musical lead: Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz. I know it's pure cheese, but it was a childhood dream come true! hehe.
Chorus: toss up between Cabaret and Crazy for You. Both were wicked shows to be a dancer in!
*edit* JOIZEY: I felt the same way about BBM, in terms of the family and the learning experience!
Updated On: 7/29/04 at 09:18 AM
#36re: What was your favorite play/musical you yourself have been in?
Posted: 7/29/04 at 9:44amyears and years ago, in high school, i was Mr. Paravacini in "The Mousetrap" and then, later that year, I was Tony in "The Boyfriend" ... the next year, i was cast as Valere in "Tartuffe" but we lost our director in a car crash, so we had to cancel the production...
#37re: What was your favorite play/musical you yourself have been in?
Posted: 7/29/04 at 10:32am
joeyjoe - is that the director who wanted to practice alone with you in the previous season?LOL.....
Mine, as I have stated a bazillion times - is Don Q/Cervantes in Man of La Mancha. I've played it several times now and hope to continue playing it until the day I die...its such a moving and positive experience (both for the performers and the audience).
"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!"
Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!
#38re: What was your favorite play/musical you yourself have been in?
Posted: 7/29/04 at 10:51amyes, he wanted me to practice my hand-kissing with him... ewwwYUCK!!!! Updated On: 7/29/04 at 10:51 AM
chauvelin128
Understudy Joined: 5/11/04
#39re: What was your favorite play/musical you yourself have been in?
Posted: 7/29/04 at 1:02pmJesus in Godspell was a blast.
#40re: What was your favorite play/musical you yourself have been in?
Posted: 7/29/04 at 1:21pm
Musical-You're a Good Man Charlie Brown (Schroeder)
Play-The Boys Next Door-(Norman)
"So much of me is made of what I learned from you. You'll be with me like a handprint on my heart."-Wicked
#41re: What was your favorite play/musical you yourself have been in?
Posted: 7/29/04 at 1:26pmNarrating 'Rocky Horror.' I take it as an honor that I was considered by FAR the most inappropriate and offensive part of the show.
#42re: What was your favorite play/musical you yourself have been in?
Posted: 7/29/04 at 2:20pmThat's a tough one because I've loved doing different shows for different reasons. Big River didn't have a great role for me, but I had the most fun because of the cast. A New Brain was something I never got tired of performing. My favorite show to do, both for the show itself and my role, was when I played Usher/Samovar (the Groucho role) in A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine. That show is due for a revival. It's pretty amazing. The CD doesn't do it justice.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#43re: What was your favorite play/musical you yourself have been in?
Posted: 7/29/04 at 2:28pmI think Charlie Cowell in the "The Music Man" was my favorite because I am so NOT like the character, so I got to be someone completely different for a while. Hugo Peabody in "Bye Bye Birdie" was also fun, but that wasn't too much of a stretch for me.
#44re: What was your favorite play/musical you yourself have been in?
Posted: 7/29/04 at 2:30pmI was in M*A*SH. The show itself was ok...it was the cast that made it so much fun.
You aren't feeling overwhelmed are you?
#45re: What was your favorite play/musical you yourself have been in?
Posted: 7/29/04 at 2:49pmOkay, I was only in three musicals in high school, Hello Dolly, My Fair Lady and Brigadoon. I loved Brigadoon.
#46re: What was your favorite play/musical you yourself have been in?
Posted: 7/29/04 at 3:45pmI loved being in GUYS AND DOLLS, but my favorite stagework was when I got to play Robert in COMPANY.
"Blow out the candles Robert and make a wish. Want something, want SOMETHING."
#47re: What was your favorite play/musical you yourself have been in?
Posted: 7/29/04 at 3:53pmBRIGADOON is a highly underappreciated musical.
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
Coondiggitydogg
Stand-by Joined: 7/18/04
#48re: What was your favorite play/musical you yourself have been in?
Posted: 7/29/04 at 3:54pmlast year we did Godspell i was an apostle. IT is such a fun show. even if u dont believe and jesus and all.(I;m jewish) it is sooooo much fun, and it was sold out every night
#49re: What was your favorite play/musical you yourself have been in?
Posted: 7/29/04 at 3:56pm
I have only been in one musical.......OKLAHOMA and I played Fred? Who's Fred? Exactly!!!!
I was in TAMING OF THE SHREW this past spring. I was Gremio (the old pervert pedafile). That was a fun character to play. I got to be old and have a pimp cane. I also had the best/funniest scene in the whole play. Let's just say that audience was rolling on the floor.......and no.......not THAT floor.
I was in two musical revues in college two years ago. In the revues, I was the title character and Andre in the PHANTOM OF THE OPERA segment, John the Baptist/Judas in the GODSPELL segment, sang the solo on "The Proposal" in the TITANIC segment (LOVE that song), Linus in the YAGMCB segment, and so on.
But the favorite still goes to Gremio.
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
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