Your Top 5 dream roles

#1

Your Top 5 dream roles

Posted: 10/6/06 at 7:59pm

What are your Top 5 dream roles in a show?

Mine:

ANYONE in The Producers
Addison Mizner in Bounce
Freddy Benson in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Pseudolus in Forum
Ralph in Reefer Madness

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#2

re: Your Top 5 dream roles

Posted: 10/6/06 at 8:02pm

Why do we need two threads on this?

ONE is enough.

Edit:
Oscar- Sweet Charity
Lumiere- Beauty and the Beast
Bobby- Company
Paul or Mike- A Chorus Line
Thenadier- Les Miz

Updated On: 10/6/06 at 08:02 PM

#3

re: Your Top 5 dream roles

Posted: 10/6/06 at 8:04pm

Sorry. it was an accident.

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#4

re: Your Top 5 dream roles

Posted: 10/6/06 at 8:08pm

I feel your pain man. I did the same thing.

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#5

re: Your Top 5 dream roles

Posted: 10/6/06 at 8:17pm

Kate- Lippa's The Wild Party
Mimi-Rent
Kate Monster-Avenue Q
Olive Ostrovsky-Spelling Bee
Rona Lisa Peretti-Spelling Bee

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#6

re: Your Top 5 dream roles

Posted: 10/6/06 at 8:19pm

NLS, is your computer going to break again any time soon?

#7

re: Your Top 5 dream roles

Posted: 10/6/06 at 8:22pm

It's a little slower. and my cord is sparking if i move roughly so maybe.

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#8

re: Your Top 5 dream roles

Posted: 10/6/06 at 8:23pm

Princeton/Rod-Avenue Q
Leaf Coneybear-The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Bobby-Company
Fabrizio-The Light In The Piazza
The Emcee-Cabaret

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#9

re: Your Top 5 dream roles

Posted: 10/6/06 at 9:04pm

(1) Archibald Craven: The Secret Garden
(2) Anatoly/The Russian: Chess
(3) Leo Frank: Parade
(4) Molina: Kiss of the Spider Woman
(5) Leo Bloom: The Producers

Honorable Mention: Seymour: Little Shop of Horrors and Amos: Chicago

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#10

re: Your Top 5 dream roles

Posted: 10/6/06 at 9:08pm

my top 5:

-Elphaba in Wicked
-Eponine in Les Miz
-Ulla in The Producers
-Janet Van de Graaf (I can't spell for my LIFE) in The Drowsy Chaperone
-Sally in You're A Good Man Charlie Brown

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#11

re: Your Top 5 dream roles

Posted: 10/6/06 at 9:32pm

Leo Bloom- The Producers
Princeton/ Rod- Avenue Q
Leaf Coneybear- The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Mark Cohen- Rent
Sir Lancelot and others- Spamalot

Updated On: 10/7/06 at 09:32 PM

#12

re: Your Top 5 dream roles

Posted: 10/6/06 at 9:34pm

I'm sure I have more but right now 3 come to mind.
Kathleen - Last Five Years
Aeriel - Little Mermaid
Glinda - Wicked

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#13

re: Your Top 5 dream roles

Posted: 10/6/06 at 9:41pm

Javert-Les Mis
Phantom-POTO
Marius-Les Mis
Walter-WIW
Fr. Flynn-Doubt
(need to add my sixth)Perchik-FOTR

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#14

re: Your Top 5 dream roles

Posted: 10/6/06 at 9:47pm

In order:

The Lady of the Lake, Monty Python's Spamalot
Mrs. Lovett, Sweeney Todd
The Witch, Into the Woods
Dot/Marie, Sunday in the Park with George
Janet van de Graaf, The Drowsy Chaperone

#15

re: Your Top 5 dream roles

Posted: 10/6/06 at 10:04pm

Jamie in L5Y
Jon in TTB (which I am currently directing at the moment)
Sweeney Todd
Freddy Benson in DRS
Cat in the Hat Seussical

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Freddy Benson- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

#16

re: Your Top 5 dream roles

Posted: 10/6/06 at 11:25pm

Eponine--Les Miz
The Baker's Wife--Into the Woods
Sally Bowles--Cabaret
Kate Monster--Avenue Q
Audrey--Little Shop of Horrors

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#17

re: Your Top 5 dream roles

Posted: 10/6/06 at 11:32pm

Fred/Petruchio- KMK
Tevye- FOTR
Sweeney Todd
Don Quixote/ Cervantes- MolM
Emile- SP

#18

re: Your Top 5 dream roles

Posted: 10/6/06 at 11:40pm

Eliza--My Fair Lady
Sally Bowles--Cabaret
Adelaide--Guys and Dolls
Eponine--Les Miserables
Maria--West Side Story

Too bad only two of those fit my voice.

#19

re: Your Top 5 dream roles

Posted: 10/6/06 at 11:44pm

Anyone of the "Jersey Girls" - Jersey Boys
Reno Sweeney - Anything Goes
Millie Dillmount - Thoroughly Modern Millie
Christine Colgate - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
G(a)linda - Wicked

Updated On: 10/6/06 at 11:44 PM

#20

re: Your Top 5 dream roles

Posted: 10/6/06 at 11:45pm

I'm surprised more people didn't say Elphaba in Wicked. Hmmm...is this board getting more mature?? Yay!

#21

re: Your Top 5 dream roles

Posted: 10/6/06 at 11:50pm

Johanna - Sweeney Todd
Maureen - RENT
Marcy Park - Spelling Bee
Eponine or Fantine - Les Miserables
Baker's Wife - Into the Woods

#22

re: Your Top 5 dream roles

Posted: 10/6/06 at 11:57pm

Freddy- DRS (And when I get older, Lawrence)
Mark- Rent
Barret- Titanic
Thomas Andrews- Titanic
Fleet- Titanic
...I love the music from Titanic. To perform it live...well, It'd be a dream.

#23

re: Your Top 5 dream roles

Posted: 10/7/06 at 12:16am

Sweeney Todd in "Sweeney Todd"
Emcee in "Cabaret"
John Wilkes Booth in "Assassins"
Macheath or J.J. Peachum in "The Threepenny Opera"
Frederick in "A Little Night Music"
Lawrence in "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"

(Okay, I did six... who cares!)

#24

re: Your Top 5 dream roles

Posted: 10/7/06 at 3:41am

In of course no particular order...

1) Mark Cohen in RENT
2) Princeton/Rod in Avenue Q
3) Boq in Wicked
4) Leaf Coneybear or Chip in Spelling Bee
5) Jamie in Last 5 Years

I have always wanted to play Seymour in Little Shop as well, but never auditioned for it yet, but there's always chances around to do that show...

#25

re: Your Top 5 dream roles

Posted: 10/7/06 at 3:50am

I'm not too talented anymore, but if I were to put some work into it I'd love to play:

- The Emcee in CABARET
- Cal Chandler in THE FIX
- Curtis in a racially-flexible DREAMGIRLS
- Burrs in Lippa's WILD PARTY
- Marvin in FALSETTOS or IN TROUSERS

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