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YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL
#25YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Posted: 4/27/11 at 1:25amKids chorus for a long time, but the first "real" role I got Archie in George M!. I thought I was the shiiiit with my 4 lines! lol
#26YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Posted: 4/27/11 at 6:52amCurly in OKLAHOMA!. My junior year in high school....a very long time ago (1980).
#27YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Posted: 4/27/11 at 9:13amJohn the Baptist/Judas in Godspell...once in the 1980's and once in the 1990's.
#28YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Posted: 4/27/11 at 9:29amFirst role, Page #1 in Camelot in junior high. First role with lines/songs, Linus, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown.
#29YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Posted: 4/27/11 at 11:21am
First role: Andrew Carnes, Ado Annie's father, in "Oklahoma!" I was in high school.
First professional role: Ensemble in Music Man, but I understudied the barbershop quartet roles. That was a pain! I had to learn all 4 parts to 3 songs, plus their blocking and lines. It was confusing to say the least, now that I recall.
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EvelynOakleigh
Understudy Joined: 4/23/11
#30YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Posted: 4/27/11 at 11:43amI was the Doorman when I was 5 in the Wizard of Oz
#31YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Posted: 4/27/11 at 4:49pmJunior year of high school, I was one of the Queen's ladies-in-waiting/noblewoman in My Fair Lady.
#32YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Posted: 4/27/11 at 4:55pmTroupe in 42nd Street, my sophomore year of high school. I was sadly hampered by the complete inability to tap. "Shuffle-ball-step" was beyond me.
bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
#33YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Posted: 4/28/11 at 12:09am
Technically: Narrator #7 in "Annie" in Kindergarten
First real/full theatrical production: Pritschisch in "The Merry Widow" when I was 16
First real/full musical: JP Morgan/ Ensemble in "Ragtime" (my profile)
However, if I had not made a silly decision when I was 16, my first musical would have been "Hair" featuring Pia Toscano, Molly Ranson, Lilli Cooper, and Kaitlyn Kiyan...
#34YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Posted: 4/28/11 at 12:14am
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That's you in Ragtime? I always thought it looked like you playing the Artful Dodger on the set of Next to Normal.
bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
#35YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Posted: 4/28/11 at 1:02am
Yep! Lol
Yeah, the set was compared to Jersey Boys' set quite a bit (it went up in December 2006). It worked really well for the concept, though. Here's a video if you're curious to see how it functioned:
Ragtime Act 1 Finale (Justice through Till We Reach That Day)
spike3
Leading Actor Joined: 5/17/11
#36YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Posted: 5/29/11 at 3:04pmI was in the dancing ensemble of Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, 1st show I appeared in for them was Guys and Dolls.
spike3
Leading Actor Joined: 5/17/11
#37YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Posted: 5/29/11 at 3:05pmI was in the dancing ensemble of Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, 1st show I appeared in for them was Guys and Dolls.
JustAGuy
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/03
#38YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Posted: 5/29/11 at 4:10pm
1968 - Age 17 - Curly - OKLAHOMA!
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TheatreDiva90016
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#39YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Posted: 5/29/11 at 4:15pmI was in the 4th grade and I was cast as Hansel in the opera Hansel and Gretel.
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jawjuhh
Stand-by Joined: 5/29/11
#40YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Posted: 5/29/11 at 5:12pmI've never been in a musical, I'm not much of an actor, but I've sung in my school's cabarets, where we pick a composer and create a show around his/her songs. My first time I sang Coffee in a Cardboard Cup from Kander & Ebb's 70 Girls 70. It was fun.
#41YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Posted: 5/29/11 at 5:20pm
'Tinman' in "The Wizard of Oz " in 1979 at the age of 12!
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#42YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Posted: 5/30/11 at 12:30amWhen I was in 7th grade, Mendel the rabbi's son in Fidler on the Roof
#43YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Posted: 5/30/11 at 6:05pm
Juan Peron in Evita :)
Our only set was a white slab of marble in the middle of the stage. :)
CurtainCall
Understudy Joined: 4/1/11
#44YOUR FIRST ROLE IN A MUSICAL
Posted: 5/30/11 at 6:29pm
Friedrich von Trapp in some unknown musical. At the audition my mother slapped me on the cheeks "to get some colour in them" apparently I looked too pallid to live anywhere near the fresh air of the Alps.
Fast forward 20 odd years later I'm in Company as Robert and by chance the girl who played Brigitta is all grown up and playing Amy. She reminded me of the incident and let slip my mother had the nickname Mrs Worthington in the Sound of Music company, because of this incident - which would mortify my mum, she's very far from being a stage-mother, having suffered at the hands of one herself - she just thought I needed to look healthy. (There's a moral in there somewhere).
End of memory lane :)
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