if you could be in a Broadway chorus...
if you could be in a Broadway chorus...
#0if you could be in a Broadway chorus...
Posted: 7/16/04 at 1:31am
If you could choose to be in the chorus of any Broadway show, which one would be your first choice? How about your last choice?
I think that my first choice would have to be Sweeney Todd. The show itself is a compelling piece of theatre, and the chorus is just as important to the telling of the ‘tale’ as the characters they sing of in third person. It’s like a greek chorus. The music is also extremely challenging both rhythmically and melodically.
My last choice would be: Wicked. I love the show, but I can’t seem to get to like the Shiz Students/Ozians at all. Though I'm sure things were intended this way, it seems that the chorus characters were all written to be unlikable, mobbish and narrow-minded in order to make Elphaba more likable and heroic. Plus, the chorus music—for me—pales in comparison to the solos, duets, etc.
-SuperSchubert
insomniak
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/7/04
#1re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...
Posted: 7/16/04 at 1:33amRent! I wanna be pink fuzzy bra girl or Rocket Team girl.
#2re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...
Posted: 7/16/04 at 1:33amhmmmmm...I would like to be in Cabaret..I guess it's not really chorus but one of the Cabaret girls!! They are too much fun!
sean martin
Broadway Star Joined: 7/4/04
#3re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...
Posted: 7/16/04 at 1:35am
First choice: Candide. Some of the most glorious chorus music written.
Last choice: Annie. The chorus numbers are pretty golly gosh darn awful.
judy_in_disguise
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/31/04
#4re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...
Posted: 7/16/04 at 1:45am
I was chorus for Cabaret and Crazy for You (Lulu and Mitzi) and I LOVED it.
I love doing the dancing showgirls type chorus parts.
#5re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...
Posted: 7/16/04 at 1:47amParade
jezzebelle
Featured Actor Joined: 4/19/04
#6re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...
Posted: 7/16/04 at 2:10am
1st choice- Hairspray. They get to dance their butts off, sing and wear those fabulous 60's clothes.
last choice- I'll go with Wicked as well. Those chorus numbers were "eh".
-Jess
#7re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...
Posted: 7/16/04 at 2:10am
First Choice: Chess. Without a doubt.
Last Choice: Cats (IN HELL!)
jezzebelle
Featured Actor Joined: 4/19/04
#8re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...
Posted: 7/16/04 at 2:10am
1st choice- Hairspray. They get to dance their butts off, sing and wear those fabulous 60's clothes.
last choice- I'll go with Wicked as well. Those chorus numbers were "eh".
-Jess
#9re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...
Posted: 7/16/04 at 2:15am
RENT
Phantom of the Opera (esp. masquerade scene)
BARE
Hairspray (man, I would lose weight fast)
bronxboundexpress
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/15/04
#10re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...
Posted: 7/16/04 at 2:16amI would love to be in the chorus of THE WHO'S TOMMY as a pimp or a drug dealer.
SammyGal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/04
#11re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...
Posted: 7/16/04 at 2:17am
I'd love to be in Cabaret or Taboo, maybe Rent.
Never wanna be in Wicked. Bad dancing and annoyingness.
marebare
Stand-by Joined: 7/6/04
#12re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...
Posted: 7/16/04 at 2:26am
one good thing about the wicked chorus- they get to wear amazing costumes!
best: urinetown
worst: cats; jesus christ superstar, i will never say "what's the buzz tell me what's-a happenin'" in my LIFE!
#13re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...
Posted: 7/16/04 at 3:37amOh!!! I love JSC.
#14re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...
Posted: 7/16/04 at 6:39am
First choice:Les Miserables.
Last choice:Annie (NEVER again...)
GovernorSlaton
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/04
#15re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...
Posted: 7/16/04 at 8:20am
Parade would be great to be in, but I'd also like to be in the chorus of Bat Boy.
"Got another dead c-
Got another d-
Got ano-
G-"
mmajer
Understudy Joined: 4/12/04
#16re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...
Posted: 7/16/04 at 8:48amI would love to be in the chorus of Bat Boy, I imagine it would be a ton of fun. If I could do another show I have already been in I would pick Reefer Madness. How many times can you make your entrance as a reefer zombie, go into a swing dance number, followed by an orgy with a giant hookah that really used to be a lamp, and then emerge as angels complete with tin pie plate halos.
judy_in_disguise
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/31/04
#18re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...
Posted: 7/16/04 at 9:11am
Rent
Aida
Secret Garden ( just a lovely show)
#19re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...
Posted: 7/16/04 at 9:42amI think it would be a blast to be in any of them - however, I can't dance, so that limits my choices to Les Miz, and...Les Miz?
Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#20re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...
Posted: 7/16/04 at 9:44am
First choice - A Chorus Line.
Last - .... Hair? (I'm shy)
A click for life.
mamie4 5/14/03
robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#21re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...
Posted: 7/16/04 at 10:47am
I haven't been in the chorus since I was fifteen!
I suppose if someone held a gun to my head, I would choose the same chorus from fifteen years ago: Sweeney Todd.
broadwayguy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/03
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#23re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...
Posted: 7/16/04 at 11:06amThe lieder singers of A Little Night Music get a lot to do.
#24re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...
Posted: 7/16/04 at 11:44am...I'd have to say Les Mis or Taboo for first choices. Although I wouldn't mind being in the chorus for The Scarlet Pimpernel either.
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