under 5 feet tall = featured actress?

[Sleeper2]

under 5 feet tall = featured actress?#0

Posted: 4/28/06 at 4:23pm

Can a leading lady be small in anything but Wicked?

I would love to see Amy McAlexander, Jen Cody and Kristen Chenoweth in a musical about mud wrestling or something.

[Taryn]

re: under 5 feet tall = featured actress?#1

Posted: 4/28/06 at 4:29pm

How about Hairspray? Isn't Marissa Jaret Winokur smaller than 5 feet?

[muscle23ftl]

re: under 5 feet tall = featured actress?#2

Posted: 4/28/06 at 4:39pm

Anjali Bhimani played the lead in Bombay Dreams and she is 4'11', she replaced Ayesha Dharker, who is under 5 feet as well, if im not mistaken.

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Updated On: 4/28/06 at 04:39 PM

[Craig]

re: under 5 feet tall = featured actress?#3

Posted: 4/28/06 at 4:44pm

Mamma Rose can be short.. so can a lot of leads

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[It'sGlindaNow]

re: under 5 feet tall = featured actress?#4

Posted: 4/28/06 at 4:44pm

One of the girl characters in " A Chorus Line" is short, and Mae in Lippa's "The Wild Party" is petite.

[Gothampc]

re: under 5 feet tall = featured actress?#5

Posted: 4/28/06 at 4:45pm

Elaine Paige played Evita, Grizabella, Norma Desmond

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[Calvin]

re: under 5 feet tall = featured actress?#6

Posted: 4/28/06 at 4:48pm

Not only Rose, but pretty much anything Bernadette Peters has played. I felt like a giant standing next to her.

eta: Is Pablo Schreiber really tall, or is everyone else in Awake and Sing! really short?
Updated On: 4/28/06 at 04:48 PM

[FOAnatic]

re: under 5 feet tall = featured actress?#7

Posted: 4/28/06 at 4:50pm

WICKED wasn't Chenoweth's first leading role.

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[morosco]

re: under 5 feet tall = featured actress?#8

Posted: 4/28/06 at 5:13pm

Did I hear correctly that Elaine Paige is less than 5 foot?

[BSoBW2]

re: under 5 feet tall = featured actress?#9

Posted: 4/28/06 at 5:17pm

Mae in Lippa's The Wild Party IS Jennifer Cody.

[MargoChanning]

re: under 5 feet tall = featured actress?#10

Posted: 4/28/06 at 5:18pm

Stephanie Mills was only about 4'10" or so when she starred in The Wiz. Then again, her character was supposed to be a teenager (and that's why she was able to keep playing the role for so many years).

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[Marguerite Chauvelin]

re: under 5 feet tall = featured actress?#11

Posted: 4/28/06 at 5:39pm

Emma Goldman was short so you've got a big role in Ragtime made there (and a small one in Assassins).

But what is there for girls of a certain height AND weight? (besides Tracy Turnblad). See my avatar to understand that question (roles eyes)

If Percy Blakeney were in Les Mis....

Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)

[Playbill9117]

re: under 5 feet tall = featured actress?#12

Posted: 4/29/06 at 10:31pm

I think the answer to Sleeper2's question is YES.