Ensembles You'd Hate To Be In
Ensembles You'd Hate To Be In
#1Ensembles You'd Hate To Be In
Posted: 11/26/06 at 12:31pm
Putting aside the “I’m glad just to be cast in a show” mantra, which ensembles would you hate to be a part of?
For me, I’d say The Light in the Piazza. They don’t do anything expect walk around in period costumes and sing backup. I think I’d rather be in the Brooklyn "ensemble"...or not.
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#1re: Ensembles You'd Hate To Be In
Posted: 11/26/06 at 12:35pmThe practically nonexistent ensemble of Lestat.
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#3re: Ensembles You'd Hate To Be In
Posted: 11/26/06 at 12:40pmI hated being in the ensemble of Beauty and the Beast, but that was just because our director didn't put the ensemble in anything.
#4re: Ensembles You'd Hate To Be In
Posted: 11/26/06 at 2:02pmThe Woman in White
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Link Larkin Wanabe
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#5re: Ensembles You'd Hate To Be In
Posted: 11/26/06 at 2:09pm
I always felt bad for swings in Into the Woods because usually they only get to go on as Sleeping Beauty or Snow White, since those two are usually understudies for the bigger roles.
Akiva
#6re: Ensembles You'd Hate To Be In
Posted: 11/26/06 at 2:11pm
A Chorus Line.
"You, in the green, you're cut." Then sit backstage or go home.
Although, I guess that's not so bad.
Some people paint, some people sew, I meddle.
Parks
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/04
#7re: Ensembles You'd Hate To Be In
Posted: 11/26/06 at 2:17pm
I don't think Avenue Q's ensemble has such a bad time. Aren't all of them understudies? Many of them are understudies for more than just 1 part, so they probably go on a fair amount of time.
*SPOILER*
and they do go on every night--in the audience during The Money Song.
*END SPOILER*
I'd hate to be in Wicked's ensemble. Imagine having friends and family constantly asking you for tickets/discounts if possible. I actually thought about this yesterday.
"If it walks like a Parks, if it wobbles like a Parks, then it's definitely fat and nobody loves it." --MA
bwayondabrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/05
#8re: Ensembles You'd Hate To Be In
Posted: 11/26/06 at 2:18pm
i have to agree with THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA one
#9re: Ensembles You'd Hate To Be In
Posted: 11/26/06 at 2:25pmI would definitely agree with LITP. Definitely boring for an ensemble member.
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...
thevolleyballer
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#10re: Ensembles You'd Hate To Be In
Posted: 11/26/06 at 2:34pm
I was in "The Secret Garden", and on the days I wasn't Dickon (it was, after all, community theatre), I was just so bored because of the lack of much to do.
On the flip side, I absolutely loved being in the ensembles of "Bye Bye Birdie" and "The Music Man." There's just so much to do for those shows, it's fantastic.
#11re: Ensembles You'd Hate To Be In
Posted: 11/26/06 at 2:38pm
Little Women.
...ha! I kill me!!!!!
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#12re: Ensembles You'd Hate To Be In
Posted: 11/26/06 at 2:39pmI would hate being in the Ensemble of "The Sound Of Music" At least as a male, all you do is waltz at the party, and turn into a Nazi in the final scene.
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#13re: Ensembles You'd Hate To Be In
Posted: 11/26/06 at 2:43pm
Oklahoma!
Annie
The King and I
"In theater, the process of it is the experience. Everyone goes through the process, and everyone has the experience together. It doesn't last - only in people's memories and in their hearts. That's the beauty and sadness of it. But that's life - beauty and the sadness. And that is why theater is life." - Sherie Rene Scott
#14re: Ensembles You'd Hate To Be In
Posted: 11/26/06 at 2:49pm
42nd Street.
If you can't tap dance & you're in the ensemble, you come on like 4 times.
Goshen doesn't do High-School-shows.
#15re: Ensembles You'd Hate To Be In
Posted: 11/26/06 at 2:51pm
I actually think LITP would be sorta fun.
the ensemble could make up backstories and situations and all sorts of cool stuff
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#16re: Ensembles You'd Hate To Be In
Posted: 11/26/06 at 2:58pmLight and ACL.
2008 European Tour
London: Les Mis, Lion King, Sound of Music, Joseph, Hairspray, Billy Elliot
France: Le Roi Lion, Cabaret
Germany: Der Konig der Lowen
Holland: Tarzan & Les Mis
London: Les Mis, Lion King, Sound of Music, Joseph, Hairspray, Billy Elliot
France: Le Roi Lion, Cabaret
Germany: Der Konig der Lowen
Holland: Tarzan & Les Mis
gumbo2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/21/05
#18re: Ensembles You'd Hate To Be In
Posted: 11/26/06 at 3:04pmFrom the look of it at the Macy's parade you'd have to drug me before you could get me to go on in The Grinch......those Whos were way too happy.
I always try to save a couple of the marshmallows till the very end but I never make it. I always end up with a bunch of flake things and pink milk...my mind wanders. - Garden State
#19re: Ensembles You'd Hate To Be In
Posted: 11/26/06 at 3:08pm
Well I would have to say Into the Woods...because I don't think there is much Ensemble lol.
And for those saying ACL. While you're not onstage, you're still singing most of the songs. They sing the group parts of Montages and both Ones. It's a pretty good set up.
neddyfrank2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#20re: Ensembles You'd Hate To Be In
Posted: 11/26/06 at 3:13pm
When I first saw this thread I knew someone would say The Grinch. I was in it at the Old Globe for two years, and let me tell you it is fun!
I would have to say Sweeney Todd, it just doesn't seem like it would be much fun, esspecially in the Doyle production.
I know this isn't in the thread but I think it would be BLAST to be in the Guys and Dolls ensemble
#21re: Ensembles You'd Hate To Be In
Posted: 11/26/06 at 3:13pmI always felt sorry for Snow white and sleeping beauty in ITW
Link Larkin Wanabe
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#22re: Ensembles You'd Hate To Be In
Posted: 11/26/06 at 3:13pm
I think a lot of this has to do with how the director chooses to use the ensemble in a show. For instance I find it shocking that people listed the esembles of Secret Garden and Fiddler on the Roof as being boring...while almost all the productions I have seen or heard utilized the ensemble so that they were onstage almost the whole time. In Secret Garden the ensemble are the chorus of ghosts of the past that sort of narrate the story and watch over the characters. In the production of Fiddler I did, the ensemble was in view almost the whole time as the villagers and gave a sense of community.
I think in general it has to do with how ensemble-driven the director of a show is.
Akiva
ps.. Neddy....it is a BLAST. My first professional gig was playing Rusty Charlie. I got to sing a killer opening number and then have the time of my life for the rest of the show. Not a bad way to spend a summer.
Updated On: 11/26/06 at 03:13 PM
thevolleyballer
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#23re: Ensembles You'd Hate To Be In
Posted: 11/26/06 at 3:16pmAkiva, I definitely agree, if only because when I was in Fiddler, I was onstage a ton of times. For The Secret Garden, though, we sang "House on a Hill" (was that the song?), the two parts of "Storm", and one other little thing. That was about it. Definitely a director's decision.
gumbo2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/21/05
#24re: Ensembles You'd Hate To Be In
Posted: 11/26/06 at 3:26pm
Yeah that's true, because when I was in Fiddler the ensemble just sort of stood there and sang their song and then left, didn't have much to do unless you were sort of a pseudo-ensemble member with a name.
And another vote for Guys and Dolls being awesome for ensemble. And 42nd Street is probably the best ensemble show you can ever be in (providing you tap, I guess)
#25re: Ensembles You'd Hate To Be In
Posted: 11/26/06 at 3:29pm
"42nd Street.
If you can't tap dance & you're in the ensemble, you come on like 4 times."
Note: If you're in 42nd Street- you should know how to tap dance. That's like---the entire show!
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