YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL
YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL
YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL#1
Posted: 4/26/11 at 5:09pm
What was your first role in a musical (ever, professional or not)?
Mine was:
KID IN TOWN in THE MUSIC MAN.
Only one line: Good morning, Mayor Shinn.
YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL#2
Posted: 4/26/11 at 5:12pm
I was a Munchkin in the Wizard of Oz. I was six.
I represented the Lollipop Guild.
The first role (with lines) I had was Eugene in Grease.
YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL#2
Posted: 4/26/11 at 5:33pm
Legitimate musical?
The King in ONCE UPON A MATTRESS.
Not the strongest singer, I wasn't el oh el Still amn't.
YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL#4
Posted: 4/26/11 at 5:42pmMr. Sowerberry in Oliver!. Summer camp- I was around 10.
YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL#5
Posted: 4/26/11 at 5:59pm
Hugo Peabody in Bye, Bye Birdie in junior high school. I sadly learned I didn't really have anything to sing, save for a couple of lines in "The Telephone Hour". 
The next year I played Hines in The Pajama Game, that one was a lot of fun.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/10
YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL#7
Posted: 4/26/11 at 8:14pm
The Cowardly Lion in an elementary school production of Wizard of Oz,
but if we're talking roles I actually remember doing, it would be "Chester Lyman" in Barnum freshman year of high school.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL#8
Posted: 4/26/11 at 8:38pmI was 7, in Bye Bye Birdie, I was one of the girls in Put on a Happy Face and I wore a blue rain slicker. I hated that raincoat.
Chorus Member Joined: 7/14/10
YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL#9
Posted: 4/26/11 at 8:45pm
Jeb(the suitor) in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
lol
YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL#11
Posted: 4/26/11 at 8:54pmNothing. (Yet.) In the middle and high school theatre world, you have to kiss major ass to get a part, which I guess I haven't done enough of in the past 4 years. *shudder*
YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL#12
Posted: 4/26/11 at 9:30pmMr. Brownlow in Oliver. I was 12 years old and it was weird to see a Filipino Mr. Brownlow have a Caucasian, blonde grandson. LOL.
YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL#13
Posted: 4/26/11 at 9:53pm
Ensemble in LEADER OF THE PACK (my sophomore year).
I was again Ensemble in ANYTHING GOES this year (my junior year).
Swing Joined: 8/12/10
YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL#14
Posted: 4/26/11 at 9:55pm
Agwe in Once on This Island. Not only my first lead, but my favorite of the shows I've been in. The story is so simple yet so touching and the music is just infectious. The production itself was very tight and wonderfully cast as well. I loved singing "Rain" every night, its such an intense song and really sets the story into motion. "Pray" was a highlight each night, there was a huge tribal drum in the center of the stage with Ti Moune and Daniel on it, with the Gods and some of the ensemble circling the drum in a very tribal/almost voodoo fashion. I tried not to cry onstage each night towards the end, but as soon as Euralie finds Ti Moune's body and starts "Oh, Ti Moune" it got harder and harder to fight back tears. On the last night I couldn't help it and I had tears streaming down my face when I covered Ti Moune's body in a light blue sheet that had such a beautiful glow when the lights hit it.
So yeah, Agwe. Hehe sorry to ramble, I'm in a mood tonight.
YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL#15
Posted: 4/26/11 at 9:59pmNM - Reading the entries above is making me extremely nostalgic as well. Ramble on!
YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL#16
Posted: 4/26/11 at 10:07pmCreeper (one of the lost boys) in Peter Pan when I was seven. I still have a video of that show, but after the age of nine, I just started getting too embarrassed to watch it or let anyone see it.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL#17
Posted: 4/26/11 at 10:11pmMy first show was the operetta THE DESERT SONG. My one line in it was: "Look, look, the fires on the hill!"
YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL#18
Posted: 4/26/11 at 10:32pmMy first role was as the puppeteer of the Audrey II in LSOH (with minor roles as a male drag queen in Skid Row and a weird guy who gets turned down at the radio interview). Exhausting, especially moving the largest puppet in the 2nd act, but SO much fun.
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YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL#19
Posted: 4/26/11 at 11:10pmMy first legit musical, I was 8 and played Jerome in South Pacific. I had to die my hair jet black and every kid in 4th grade kept asking when my hair was gonna change back.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
Leading Actor Joined: 3/21/11
YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL#20
Posted: 4/26/11 at 11:57pmAge 15, Tobias in Sweeney Todd, after the original actor (an adult) booked a tour and bailed. I was definitely thrown into the deep end, but I thought the money was good and I was completely spoiled by an amazing experience with an amazing cast in an amazing facility; I remember being disappointed that the next show I did didn't have 8 perfs a week! Oh to be an idiot fifteen year old again...
YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL#21
Posted: 4/26/11 at 11:57pmGraziella in West Side Story. I was about 13 or 14 years old?
YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL#22
Posted: 4/27/11 at 12:19amMae in Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party
YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL#24
Posted: 4/27/11 at 1:03amPhyllis in Follies. Don't ask me why our drama teacher thought Follies would be a good musical for seventeen year olds to put on. Oy vey.
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