What would be your dream role to play on Broadway and why?
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Posted: 2/22/04 at 12:22pmi wanna play tracy in hairspray!!! i mean, how many roles call for a chubby, short, loud teenager???
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Posted: 2/22/04 at 12:25pmI would love to play any role in Paul Armstrong's "Society and The Bulldog," from the turn of the LAST century.
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Posted: 2/22/04 at 12:49pmtracy turnblad in hairspray.
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Posted: 2/22/04 at 12:52pm
my dream role would be mrbroadwaylilhead the 2nd!!!
just kidding...
to originate a role and make it mine so others compare people to mE!
AMAZING everyone is naming leads...to me alot of sub principal roles apeal to me more.....and are better roles!!
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Posted: 2/22/04 at 12:57pm
Hmmm...fun question.
In no particular order:
1. Mary Magdeline in JCS
2. Fantine in Les Mis
3. Aldonza in MOLM
4. Anita in WSS
5. Nala in Lion King
6. Donna (or either of her friends) in Mamma Mia
7. Kate in Lippa's Wild Party
8. Jane Eyre
God, there are soooo many more! These are just the realistic one
(Ones in my range)
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Posted: 2/22/04 at 1:09pmOhh I forgot about KMK, I'd wanna be Lilli Vanessi, oh and someone in Taboo,probably Nicola
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Posted: 2/22/04 at 1:16pm
We've definitely done this a billion and a half times, but I'll play again:
Aida - Amneris
Wicked - Elphaba
Rent - Maureen
Cabaret - Sally or Lulu (long story)
Les Miserables - Eponine
Sound of Music - Maria or Liesel
Oklahoma! - Laurey
Chicago - Roxie
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Posted: 2/22/04 at 4:30pm
Charlie Brown. oh wate... i already played that part. WOOO!
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Posted: 2/22/04 at 5:04pm
Eponine has always been my dream role. I'm just enchanted by the music from Les Mis every time I hear it. And Eponine is one of those "tough on the outside, but hurting on the inside" characters that I feel I can relate too a lot of the time.
Another one is Star-to-Be in Annie- just to stand center stage with two suitcases and singing about the most amazing city in the world...eee- awesome.
And- just ensemble in 42nd Street because tap dancing is the best type of dance out there- its so magical!
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Posted: 2/22/04 at 5:13pm
Maureen in Rent
Elpheba in Wicked
Millie in TMM
Penny in Hairspray
Audrey in Little Shop
Mama Rose in Gypsy
Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes
Dolly in Hello Dolly
Roxie in Chicago (though I've played Mama Morton and that's fun too!)
Shelley in Bat Boy (I know its offbroadway, but who cares?)
And
Susan in Tick Tick Boom (again, off-Broadway, but I want to play it anyways!)
And if I was a man, I'd DESPERATELY want to play Mark in Rent! I can sing all the songs in his range now anyways...damn gender biases!
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Posted: 2/22/04 at 5:20pm
Elphaba in Wicked
Joanne in Rent
Daisy in Sideshow
Kate in the Wild Party
Millie in TMM
Little Sally in Urinetown
Eponine in Les Mis
Aldonza in MOLM
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Posted: 2/23/04 at 11:14am
Chicago: Mama Morton or Velma
Boy From Oz: Liza
How to Succeed in Business: Rosemary
Oklahoma: Ado Annie
Lizzy
#37re: re: What would be your dream role to play on Broadway and
Posted: 2/23/04 at 11:26amFANNY BRICE! hands down! ...or if anyone ever did a play about Lucille Ball's "I Love Lucy" character. You should see my "Vega--meata-vitamin" when I've had too much "hooch".
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Posted: 2/23/04 at 12:04pm
Eponine in Les Miz
Muzzy in Thoroughly Modern Millie
Jane in Jane Eyre
Helen in Jane Eyre
Blanche in Jane Eyre
Lucy in Jekyll and Hyde
Christine in Phantom of the Opera
Amneris in Aida
Belle in Beauty and the Beast
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Posted: 2/23/04 at 12:40pm
Company-Amy
Man of La Mancha-Aldonza
Wicked-Elphaba, Glinda if I improved my range
Gypsy-Rose
Annie Get Your Gun-Annie Oakley
Oliver-The Rose Seller (and yes, Nancy of course)
Into the Woods-Bakers Wife
Sound of Music-Maria
Wonderful Town-Eileen
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Posted: 2/23/04 at 12:44pm
Well i am no longer performing but if i were:
Tracy Turnbladt- I am the right height, i love the score and i sing it daily all over my apt the neighbors clap for godsake!
Mrs Meers- Same thing
Katemonster Avenue Q- It has become one of my favorites and i have been mistaken for Stephanie around the City (twice)
Updated On: 2/23/04 at 12:44 PM
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Posted: 2/23/04 at 1:39pmI would play Eddie Varley in "The Eddie Varley Story"
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Posted: 2/23/04 at 1:42pmMartin Short already did it in "Little Me".
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Posted: 2/23/04 at 2:28pm
I would love to play Lily Garland in "On The Twentieth Century" or The Witch in ITW, Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney, and Charity in "Sweet Charity" (story of my life).
Of course, I can't sing.
And that Y chromosome thing is a bit of a problem.
Q: WHY on earth do you behave that way??!!
A: Y is the REASON I behave that way!!!!!!!!
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Posted: 2/23/04 at 2:55pm
My list is short at the moment -
Cervantes in Man of La Mancha
Hook in Peter Pan
Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd
Sweeney in Sweeney Todd
Skar (sp?) in Lion King
Any role in any Sondheim show.
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Posted: 2/23/04 at 5:03pmEponine in Les Miserables. I've dreamed of playing her since I was 10, when I used to put on a bathrobe and a baseball hat and rub pencil lead on my face and sing along to the Complete Symphonic Recording. This is a role that I know I could do justice to, and I would kill to have a chance to play her someday.
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"
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Posted: 2/23/04 at 5:15pm
Maureen in RENT because she's just so cool and gets to sing such awesome songs, like Take Me or Leave Me. She's been my dream role since I was 9.
Here are the rest of mine:
Maureen- RENT
Elphaba- Wicked
Narrator- Joseph
Sonia- Godspell
Velma- Chicago
Mary Magdalene- JCS
Kate- Zanna Don't
Susan- TTB
Mimi- RENT
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Posted: 2/23/04 at 5:48pm
Baker - Into the Woods
Marvin - Falsettos
Bobby Strong - Urinetown
Seymore - Little Shop
Josh - Big
I actually got to play four of my dream roles:
Hysterium - Forum
Samovar - Hollywood/Ukraine
Brad Majors - Rocky Horror
Jeffrey - Godspell
#48re: what would be your dream role to play on broadway and why
Posted: 2/23/04 at 6:06pmone part...richard iii...it's the role closest to my heart of all ever written
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#49re: re: what would be your dream role to play on broadway and why
Posted: 2/23/04 at 6:42pm
Aida -Aida or Amneris
Movin' Out- Brenda
Never Gonna Dance- Penny
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