if you could be in a Broadway chorus...

[SuperSchubert]

if you could be in a Broadway chorus...#0

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]

re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...#1

Posted: 7/16/04 at 1:33am

Rent! I wanna be pink fuzzy bra girl or Rocket Team girl.

[Thoroughly Modern Cara]

re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...#2

Posted: 7/16/04 at 1:33am

hmmmmm...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]

re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...#3

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.

"That duck was a sexual toy, and it was on display!" -- an unknown Nashville town leader

[judy_in_disguise]

re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...#4

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.

[Sumofallthings]

re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...#5

Posted: 7/16/04 at 1:47am

Parade

BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"

[jezzebelle]

re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...#6

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

[starlyricist]

re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...#7

Posted: 7/16/04 at 2:10am

First Choice: Chess. Without a doubt.
Last Choice: Cats (IN HELL!)

There are some people in the world who say that writing stories, or composing music or dancing sparkly dances is easy for them. Nothing interferes with their ability to create. While I celebrate their creative freedom, a little part of me just wants to punch those motherf*ckers in the teeth...[tos]

[jezzebelle]

re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...#8

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

[spiderdj82]

re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...#9

Posted: 7/16/04 at 2:15am

RENT
Phantom of the Opera (esp. masquerade scene)
BARE
Hairspray (man, I would lose weight fast)

"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2

[bronxboundexpress]

re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...#10

Posted: 7/16/04 at 2:16am

I would love to be in the chorus of THE WHO'S TOMMY as a pimp or a drug dealer.

[SammyGal]

re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...#11

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.

On a clear day I can see myself for miles ~Taboo

[marebare]

re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...#12

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!

[spiderdj82]

re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...#13

Posted: 7/16/04 at 3:37am

Oh!!! I love JSC.

"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2

[Stalksthetruth]

re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...#14

Posted: 7/16/04 at 6:39am

First choice:Les Miserables.

Last choice:Annie (NEVER again...)

[GovernorSlaton]

re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...#15

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]

re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...#16

Posted: 7/16/04 at 8:48am

I 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]

re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...#17

Posted: 7/16/04 at 9:07am

this is true.

[hawkeyemania]

re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...#18

Posted: 7/16/04 at 9:11am

Rent
Aida
Secret Garden ( just a lovely show)

In the words of Mr. William Morris Barfee, "In my whole life I have only been able to breathe through one nostril and today is no exception!"

[Rathnait62]

re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...#19

Posted: 7/16/04 at 9:42am

I 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?

Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

[Mamie]

re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...#20

Posted: 7/16/04 at 9:44am

First choice - A Chorus Line.
Last - .... Hair? (I'm shy)

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[robbiej]

re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...#21

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.

"I'm so looking forward to a time when all the Reagan Democrats are dead."

[broadwayguy2]

re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...#22

Posted: 7/16/04 at 11:06am

hairspray.. duh

[Plum]

re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...#23

Posted: 7/16/04 at 11:06am

The lieder singers of A Little Night Music get a lot to do.

[bythesword84]

re: if you could be in a Broadway chorus...#24

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.

And hang on, when did you win the discus?