Future Roles for Darren Criss
Future Roles for Darren Criss
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#1Future Roles for Darren Criss
Posted: 1/6/12 at 6:49pm
Considering the incredible star power this young man has, there have to be other Broadway roles for him. I'm thinking HALF A SIXPENCE.
Your suggestions?
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#2Future Roles for Darren Criss
Posted: 1/6/12 at 6:51pmGLEE - LIVE ON BROADWAY
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
#3Future Roles for Darren Criss
Posted: 1/6/12 at 6:55pmRaoul in The Phantom of the Opera & Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard.
#5Future Roles for Darren Criss
Posted: 1/6/12 at 7:07pm
Jack Kelly in Newsies
Jimmy in Thoroughly Modern Millie
And When he gets older....Billy Flynn in Chicago
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
Musicaldudepeter
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/18/10
#7Future Roles for Darren Criss
Posted: 1/6/12 at 7:18pm
Madame Rose in 'Gypsy'
Link Larkin in 'Hairspray'
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#8Future Roles for Darren Criss
Posted: 1/6/12 at 7:52pmI really love most of you people!
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#9Future Roles for Darren Criss
Posted: 1/6/12 at 7:57pmYoung Heidi in FOLLIES perhaps?
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Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#10Future Roles for Darren Criss
Posted: 1/6/12 at 8:45pmThe fish in AUGUST OSAGE COUNTY.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#11Future Roles for Darren Criss
Posted: 1/6/12 at 9:01pm
Clyde in Bonnie & Clyde..........
Billy Crocker in Anything Goes
Jesus in Godspell
Bert in Mary Poppins
*GASP* maybe Peter or Stache in Peter and the Starcatcher
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#12Future Roles for Darren Criss
Posted: 1/6/12 at 9:16pmAh yes, BONNIE AND CLYDE is certainly one of those shows that will have a prolonged afterlife. Perhaps the Criss lad will actually be able to play Clyde in a sterling production of the show somewhere in Billings, Montana.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
chewy5000
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/09
#13Future Roles for Darren Criss
Posted: 1/6/12 at 9:25pmPerhaps he can be the next understudy Elphaba in the 15th touring cast of Wicked. Lord knows there aren't enough fanatics already.
sally1112
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/13/04
hyperbole_and_a_half
Leading Actor Joined: 3/21/11
#15Future Roles for Darren Criss
Posted: 1/6/12 at 10:07pmI'd like to see his future roles limited to composer/lyricist. He can write a mean indie showtune with witty (if jejeune) lyrics. I don't like watching or listening to him AT ALL, but it wouldn't be such a bad thing if he kept writing music for the theatre. It'd be better than another Wildhorn clusterf***.
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theeatah
Leading Actor Joined: 1/31/10
#16Future Roles for Darren Criss
Posted: 1/6/12 at 10:18pm
The male lead in She Loves Me.
Theodore Whitman in Follies (in a while, of course).
snl89
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/05
#17Future Roles for Darren Criss
Posted: 1/6/12 at 11:01pm
I for one want to see Starkid get to Broadway! Granted Darren isn't actually in Starship, which would make the most sense for them to work on making Broadway-ready since it's original, but they could always change things up and have Darren play a role in it when he gets more free time :) (I think he was originally- before all the Glee stuff happened- supposed to be Roach, who's adorable and I do love Brant Cox but it would be cute to see Darren do it too)
But yeah, I just think Darren's own music is really beautiful and the whole Starkid team is so talented. So I'd rather they get to Broadway than he be in other revivals or something like that.
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Updated On: 1/6/12 at 11:01 PM
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#18Future Roles for Darren Criss
Posted: 1/6/12 at 11:05pmHow about TEA AND SYMPATHY opposite Loretta Swit? A true meeting of talents.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#19Future Roles for Darren Criss
Posted: 1/6/12 at 11:27pmSomebody else brought up the possibility of him as Will in American Idiot. That would actually be pretty good casting, now that I think about it.
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#21Future Roles for Darren Criss
Posted: 1/7/12 at 7:02am
Somebody else brought up the possibility of him as Will in American Idiot. That would actually be pretty good casting, now that I think about it.
He was offered a swing position with American Idiot, but turned it down to take the role on Glee - or so rumor states.
"Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we’re all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.” --- Patti LuPone.
#22Future Roles for Darren Criss
Posted: 1/7/12 at 9:10amI could see him as Clifford in Deathtrap.
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-- Thomas Jefferson
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#23Future Roles for Darren Criss
Posted: 1/7/12 at 9:57am
No one has suggested that he play Alan Strang in EQUUS. It would be a fine opportunity for Darren to show off his "Glee-wee"
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
Updated On: 1/7/12 at 09:57 AM
Lumes123
Swing Joined: 5/2/09
#24Future Roles for Darren Criss
Posted: 1/7/12 at 5:54pmcould definitely see him as a good Bobby Strong in URINETOWN
