Who are some of your favorite broadway characters?
Who are some of your favorite broadway characters?
JohnnysGurl
Stand-by Joined: 2/2/05
#0Who are some of your favorite broadway characters?
Posted: 2/6/05 at 6:15pmNot who they are played by, just charcters in general.
Derek
Broadway Star Joined: 9/14/03
#1re: Who are some of your favorite broadway characters?
Posted: 2/6/05 at 6:19pm
Ummmm
Elphaba, just because of the material and being green lol
Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz 'cuz she gets to sing that awesome song
Adelaide in Guys and Dolls 'cuz she is so funny
I just saw Seussical at a community theatre and the Cat in The Hat was great, so I guess him too :)
#2re: Who are some of your favorite broadway characters?
Posted: 2/6/05 at 6:19pmAll the RENT characters. They each have their own very distinct personality and way of handling things but they all have attitude. A person can relate to each of them in a different way.
I wanted to get something that an "ex"-junkie like him would really appreciate and cherish....it's a brick of heroin shaped like a heart.
-Scrubs
#3re: Who are some of your favorite broadway characters?
Posted: 2/6/05 at 6:24pm
clearly, the Emcee from Cabaret.
And Roger from RENT.... and Mimi, too. Actually, all of the RENT characters, because they have such distinct, well-developed personalities.
Rod, too. 
#4re: Who are some of your favorite broadway characters?
Posted: 2/6/05 at 6:38pm
hmmm. . .don't think i've seen enough musicals too make this call. .. but so far.
1. Rod
2. Elphaba
" I don't cause commotions, I am one."
Thesbijean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/9/04
#5re: Who are some of your favorite broadway characters?
Posted: 2/6/05 at 6:40pm
FEMALE
Miss Hannigan in Annie
Velma Kelly in Chicago
Bloody Mary in South Pacific
Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes
Anita in West Side Story
All well written, great songs, and great shows. Sadly, I could never play any of them.
MALE
Amos Hart in Chicago
Nicely-Nicely Jonhson in Guys & Dolls
The Narrator in Into the Woods
Franz Liebkind in The Producers
Caldwell B. Cladwell in Urinetown
All well written, great songs, and great shows. I have played one of them, and for the others, who knows....
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#6re: Who are some of your favorite broadway characters?
Posted: 2/6/05 at 6:44pm
Kate Monster- 
Trekkie Monster
The Bad Idea Bears
Mame
Millie
Caroline
Dame Edna
Tracy Turnblad and Edna Turnblad
Updated On: 2/6/05 at 06:44 PM
#7re: Who are some of your favorite broadway characters?
Posted: 2/6/05 at 6:48pm
milky white
the freaky head on top of the christmas tree in RENT
rolph from duseldorf
"Without Jews, fags, and gypsies, there is no theatre!"
~Mel Brooks, To be or not to be
#8re: Who are some of your favorite broadway characters?
Posted: 2/6/05 at 6:50pm
Rod~ avenue q
angel~ rent
ado annie~ oklahoma
amneris~ aida
tracy~ hairpsray
awkward.
"I think it was the Korean tour or something. They were all frickin' asian!" -Zoran912
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#9re: Who are some of your favorite broadway characters?
Posted: 2/6/05 at 6:52pm
Norma Desmond is my all time favorite charactor.
#10re: Who are some of your favorite broadway characters?
Posted: 2/6/05 at 6:54pm
I love the classic characters:
Professor Harold Hill
J. Pierpont Finch
Dolly Gallgher Levi
Eliza Doolittle
Professor Henry Higgins
Don Quixote de La Mancha
Albin
Sweeney Todd
Auntie Mame
Mr. Applegate
Phienias Taylor Barnum
Leading Player
John Adams
The Emcee
Chuck Baxter
Praying Decca Broadway will put "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" on CD!
#11re: Who are some of your favorite broadway characters?
Posted: 2/6/05 at 6:54pmaurora in "kiss of the spider woman"
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#12re: Who are some of your favorite broadway characters?
Posted: 2/6/05 at 6:58pmEmcee, Dot, Millie, Jo, and Caligula just to name a very small few.
"What a mystery this world. One day you love them and the next day you want to kill them a thousand times over." The Masked Bandit in THE FALL
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#13re: Who are some of your favorite broadway characters?
Posted: 2/6/05 at 6:59pmCaligula? As in the bi sexual beastiality lovin' sex fiend from the movies?
#14re: Who are some of your favorite broadway characters?
Posted: 2/6/05 at 7:00pm
Mama Rose, GYPSY
Annie Oakley, ANNIE GET YOUR GUN
Mrs. Johnstone, BLOOD BROTHERS
Fanny Brice, FUNNY GIRL
Marilyn, TABOO
Queenie, THE WILD PARTY
Julie Jordan, CAROUSEL
Dolly, HELLO, DOLLY!
Anita, WEST SIDE STORY
Mae Peterson, BYE BYE BIRDIE
The Baker's Wife, INTO THE WOODS
Dot, SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
Katisha, THE MIKADO
Reno, ANYTHING GOES
Most of the characters, FINIAN'S RAINBOW
Mack the Knife, THE THREEPENNY OPERA
Curly, OKLAHOMA!
The King, THE KING AND I
Maria, THE SOUND OF MUSIC
Peter Pan, PETER PAN
Ruth, WONDERFUL TOWN
Most of the characters, BRIGADOON
Eliza, MY FAIR LADY
Hines, THE PAJAMA GAME
JP Finch, H2$
Lola, DAMN YANKEES
Harold Hill, THE MUSIC MAN
Most of the characters, FOLLIES
Most of the characters, FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
Miss Hannigan, Rooster, Lily, ANNIE
Charity, SWEET CHARITY
Mama, MAME
Sally Bowles, Emcee, CABARET
Velma, Roxie, CHICAGO
Aldonza, Don Quixote, MAN OF LA MANCHA
Berger, Claude, HAIR
John Adams, 1776
Berthe, PIPPIN
Sheila, A CHORUS LINE
Coalhouse, RAGTIME
Penny, HAIRSPRAY
Jonathan, TICK TICK BOOM
All of the characters, RENT
Eva, EVITA
and I can't think anymore.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
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Swing Joined: 2/1/05
#15re: Who are some of your favorite broadway characters?
Posted: 2/6/05 at 7:00pm
hmmmm
the witch from into the woods
phantom in POTO
beast in beuty and the beast
Jo in little women
glinda and elphie in wicked
You alone can make my song take flight, help me make the music of the night.....
Kiss me goodbye I'm defying gravity....
Mother said straight ahead no to delay or be mislead...
#16re: Who are some of your favorite broadway characters?
Posted: 2/6/05 at 7:05pm
basically... all of rent as well (lol), Rod, Princeton, and Trekkie, Emcee, Lucy from YAGMCB, i dont know. there are so many. but my all time favorites:
male:... i would have to say Angel.... but mark, rod and princeton are all very close in the running... but angel is #1
female: Maureen!
#17re: Who are some of your favorite broadway characters?
Posted: 2/6/05 at 7:21pm
every character in dance of the vampires
renfield in dracula
#18re: Who are some of your favorite broadway characters?
Posted: 2/6/05 at 7:24pmI also loved Audrey and Seymour from LSoH. And Elphie from Wicked. I know people are probably sick of hearing that but her character is very thoughtful and strong willed and she voices her opinions.
I wanted to get something that an "ex"-junkie like him would really appreciate and cherish....it's a brick of heroin shaped like a heart.
-Scrubs
#19re: Who are some of your favorite broadway characters?
Posted: 2/6/05 at 7:36pm
There are way too many so I'll just name a few that come to mind from shows I've seen.
The Phantom
Norma Desmond from Sunset Blvd
Edna from Hairspray
Velma from Chicago
Radames from Aida
Zazu from Lion King
Eponine from Les Mis
Kim from Miss Saigon
Mark, Joanne and Angel from Rent
Take care
wicked1
Featured Actor Joined: 12/25/04
#20re: Who are some of your favorite broadway characters?
Posted: 2/6/05 at 7:40pm
Eponine
Elphaba
Millie
#21re: Who are some of your favorite broadway characters?
Posted: 2/6/05 at 7:57pm
Little Sally from Urinetown (obviously)
Bobby Strong from Urinetown
Marilyn from Taboo
Fantine from Les Mis
The Phantom from POTO
Roger DeBris from The Producers
Mark from Rent
Dot from SITPWG
Queenie from The Wild Party
Tracy from Hairspray
Kate Monster from Avenue Q
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
#22re: Who are some of your favorite broadway characters?
Posted: 2/6/05 at 8:01pm
Bobby Strong
all of the characters from A Chorus Line
Coalhouse
Serena from Fame
Peggy Sawyer
Harold Hill
Those were all the ones that came to mind immediately...
[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.
LilMiZBroADwaY23
Broadway Star Joined: 8/11/04
#23re: Who are some of your favorite broadway characters?
Posted: 2/6/05 at 8:10pm
Leo Bloom
Tracy Turnblad
Phantom (Erik)
Max Bialystock
Velma Kelly
Audrey
Orin Scrivello
Rod
Trekkie Monster
sweetaspie
Chorus Member Joined: 11/27/04
#24re: Who are some of your favorite broadway characters?
Posted: 2/6/05 at 8:16pm
Scaramouche - We Will Rock You
Rita - Lucky Stiff
Daisy Hilton - Side Show
Sally Bowles and Emcee - Cabaret
Witch, Baker, Baker's Wife, Little Red and the Wolf - Into the Woods
That pretty much sums it up for me, i'm sure there are more, but these come to mind first :)
adios
xx
edit: ahhh, i totally missed out Lizzie from Baby - cus i really want to play her :)
If you keep your goal in sight,
You can climb to any height.
Everybody's got the right to their dreams...
Updated On: 2/7/05 at 08:16 PM
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