If you could play one character...
If you could play one character...
#1If you could play one character...
Posted: 7/19/07 at 9:09pmIf you could play one character in any musical, who would it be? I'd probably be Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd or Glinda in Wicked, just cause I would love to sing Popular.
I know you.
I know you.
I know you.
#2re: If you could play one character...
Posted: 7/19/07 at 9:09pmLittle Sally. Hense the username.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#2re: If you could play one character...
Posted: 7/19/07 at 9:12pm
Can I name a couple?
Ivy in Bare
Mimi in RENT (although I'm much too white to do it, but I can dream)
Wendla in S.A.
Elphaba in Wicked
Michael in Billy Elliot. (shut up. He's really cute.)
OOH, can I be Elle too?
And Kathy in The Last 5 Years.
And... no, I'm kidding. I can't think of anything else. For now.
Wow. AVENUE Q!!
God...
You shouldn't ask people this. Too many to list, many too many...
Updated On: 7/19/07 at 09:12 PM
C is for Company
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/16/05
#3re: If you could play one character...
Posted: 7/19/07 at 9:12pm
Sally Durant in Follies
25 years, look for me headlining the revival- off off off broadway.
#4re: If you could play one character...
Posted: 7/19/07 at 9:13pmTobias in Sweeney Todd.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
#5re: If you could play one character...
Posted: 7/19/07 at 9:16pm
The Leading Player in "Pippin" as long as Michael Arden can be "Pippin "
and do the original BOB FOSSE's Chreography
J*
Updated On: 7/19/07 at 09:16 PM
#6re: If you could play one character...
Posted: 7/19/07 at 9:18pm
Norma Desmond in SUNSET BOULEVARD....
Just to come down the stage all effed up saying "I'm Ready for My Closeup"
"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."
#7re: If you could play one character...
Posted: 7/19/07 at 9:19pm
I'll be playing Phyllis Rogers Stone opposite C is for Company's Sally Durant 25 years from now off-off-off-Broadway.
Also, Carla in NINE and Flaemmchen in GRAND HOTEL.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#8re: If you could play one character...
Posted: 7/19/07 at 9:27pm
I have two main dream roles:
Louise in Gypsy and
Eponine in Les Miserables.
They're my two favorite roles from my two favorite shows.
Other sub-dream roles:
Penny Pingleton in Hairspray
Ms. Lovett in Sweeney Todd
Fantine in Les Miserables
Kate in Lippa's The Wild Party
Amneris in Aida
God, there's so many.
One time, Patti LuPone punched me in the face...
It was awesome. - theaterkid1015
It was awesome. - theaterkid1015
yankees1253
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/21/07
#9re: If you could play one character...
Posted: 7/19/07 at 9:31pm
Characters I would like to take the role of(not in a particular order):
1. One of the Jersey Girls from jersey boys
2. ensemble in the lion king
3. Margot/Ensemble-Legally Blonde
4. Ensemble in hairspray on broadway
5. Pink Lady-Grease
6. A von trapp daughter-sound of music
#10re: If you could play one character...
Posted: 7/19/07 at 9:32pmTracy in Hairspray is my big one, but I would love to be Kate in Avenue Q or Audrey in Little Shop.
"If we don't live happily ever after at least we survive until the end of the week!" -Kermit the frog "I need the money... it costs a lot to look this cheap!" -Dolly P. "Oh please, Over at 'Gypsy' Patti LuPone hasn't even alienated her first daughter yet!" Mary Testa in "Xanadu" "...Like a drunk Chita Rivera!" Robin de Jesus in "In the Heights"
"B*tch, I don't know your life." -Xanadu After that if he still doesn't understand why you were uncomfortable and are now infuriated, kick him again but this time with Jazz Hands!!! -KillerTofu#11re: If you could play one character..
Posted: 7/19/07 at 9:34pm
I would like to do a Stephen Sondheim but I dont fit to any of his character and I dont wanna do "PACIFIC OVERTURES" at all
I would love to do Gordo in " A NEW BRAIN " but I am not Jewish at all !!
Oops . Is this real or a dream sequence ?
J*
Updated On: 7/19/07 at 09:34 PM
#12re: If you could play one character...
Posted: 7/19/07 at 9:34pmEvita. I'm already working myself up to the role.
Theatre is a safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.
-John Patrick Shanley
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#13re: If you could play one character...
Posted: 7/19/07 at 9:34pm
The Witch in "Into the Woods"
Scarecrow/Hunk in "Wizard of Oz"
Dr. Frank N Furter in "Rocky Horror"
http://www.youtube.com/huskcharmer
#14re: If you could play one character...
Posted: 7/19/07 at 9:35pmLink in Hairspray is my main role that I would love to play. And my runner up would have to be Radames in Aida.
americanboy99
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
#15re: If you could play one character...
Posted: 7/19/07 at 9:36pm
MADAME ROSE in GYPSY.
I know I'm a guy, but I could do it. It would be divine.
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#16re: If you could play one character...
Posted: 7/19/07 at 9:39pm
jaystarr -- it's Bob FOSSE -- not FOSSEE. 
Also, JRybka...Norma is already on the landing of the staircase when she says her famous monologue which concludes with the famous "...and now, Mr. DeMille -- I'm ready for my close-up...". She doesn't come down the staircase saying that. 
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#17re: If you could play one character...
Posted: 7/19/07 at 9:42pmDolly Gallagher Levi
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#18re: If you could play one character...
Posted: 7/19/07 at 9:44pm
hmmm. I could have not guess that Dolly ! Hello !
Fosse- oops. your right. I corrected it. Thanks hey -- its your BWW's name .
J*
Updated On: 7/19/07 at 09:44 PM
#19re: If you could play one character...
Posted: 7/19/07 at 9:44pm
Ugh, you can't possibly expect me to pick ONE, can you?
Maggie or Kristine in A CHORUS LINE
Cinderella in INTO THE WOODS
Mother in RAGTIME
Amy in COMPANY
Beth in LITTLE WOMEN
Audrey in LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
Louise in GYPSY (although I was told I would be more of a Dainty June, which I could live with- I look younger than I am)
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
#21re: If you could play one character...
Posted: 7/19/07 at 9:49pmeponine in les mis , ulla in the producers, kate monster in avenue q!
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#22re: If you could play one character...
Posted: 7/19/07 at 9:54pm
Okay--- dream role as in "day dream"
Mame in (gay) version of "Mame" .. uhh, I would love to be serenated....hmmm..Love me some Jerry Herman..
Edit : As long as ljay is Vera Charles, so we could be "bossom buddies"
It's today !!!!! Gosh ! I luv this musical soo much !!! I even love that awful movie with Lucille Ball .. its funny bec. I always asked my gay friends here in Boston , if they would like to see the Mame- movie musical-which I always offered when I have Company - They said theyd rather shoot themselves than watch Mame 
J*
Updated On: 7/19/07 at 09:54 PM
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#23re: If you could play one character...
Posted: 7/19/07 at 10:10pm
>>>"I would love to be serenated...."<<<
What the hell does that mean?
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#24re: If you could play one character...
Posted: 7/19/07 at 10:16pm
Hello Dolly!
Well, Hello Dolly!
It's so nice to have you back where you belong
You're looking swell, Dolly,
We can tell, Dolly,
You're still glowin', you're still crowin'
You're still goin' strong.
We feel the room swayin'
For the band's playin'
One of your old fav'rite songs from 'way back when.....
Updated On: 7/19/07 at 10:16 PM
