I’ve played in amateur theatre for years. But we deal with what’s given us. If we had our druthers, what would we like to play?
Me:
Zach, in “A Chorus Line.”
John/Judas in “Godspell.”
Corny Collins in “Hairspray.”
How about you?
Lennie in Of Mice and Men
Ben Franklin in 1776
Falstaff in Henry IV (both parts) and The Merry Wives of Windsor
Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night
On my wish list:
Atticus Finch, To Kill A Mockingbird (I actually was one of the final two up for that part some years back, but lost out on the casting. Rats!)
Lloyd Dallas, Noises Off (or pretty much any role in that show)
Either Henry Drummond or Matthew Harrison Brady, Inherit the Wind
My wife says I would be great as Ben Franklin or one of the other Founding Fathers in 1776, but I dunno … I do have the hairline for Franklin, anyway.
I’m sure there are others, but those have been on my list for a long time. We have a local theatre group that does classic plays outdoors every summer on the grounds of a historic mansion (usually Shakespeare every other year, alternating with something like "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof or The Grapes of Wrath or The Crucible) … I think Inherit the Wind would be perfect for that, but I have no influence on the selection committee. 
And I have already been lucky enough to play roles like George Bailey (It’s A Wonderful Life), Ben Marco (The Manchurian Candidate), **Sidney Bruhl **- twice! (Deathtrap), the Stage Manager (Our Town), and Banquo (the Scottish play). Not to mention Uncle Jocko (Gypsy). So it’s been a pretty good run so far. Our local community theatre group has Spamalot and God of Carnage coming up next spring, along with another run of To Kill A Mockingbird, so … we’ll see. Fingers crossed.
Eulalie Mackecknie Shinn, in The Music Man. My high school put on that show two years after I went to college, darn it.
Harvey, in the play of the same name.
Godot, in Waiting For Godot
I’m playing him on Broadway right now.
Cervantes/Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha
Polonius in Hamlet
Lady Catherine de Burgh in a stage version of P&P.
Lady Bracknell in Earnest (I’ve even got the perfect huge old doctor’s bag to lend to the props person for Miss Prism’s manuscript.)
Aunt Agatha in a stage version of Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster stories.
Any role previously played by Margaret Dumont.
I’d like to play Yorick. I think I could pull it off.
A man named Andre Tschaikovsky loved Shakespeare so much that left his skull to the RSC when he died. Now he’s playing Yorick forever.
While I’ve played a couple of small roles in Our Town, I always wanted to play Emily. The dream has become increasingly out of reach since a) I am now several generations older than Emily and b) I am not a woman.
I want to be the gate guard taking a 20 minute piss in MacBeth.
I’d like to play Atticus Finch or Henry Drummond as mentioned above.
Other dream parts—
Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman
Joe Keller in All My Sons
And if I could sing, Jesus or Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar
Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors or Ado Annie in Oklahoma. Typecasting, I suppose…
Javert in Les Miz.
The Baker’s Wife (Into the Woods) is my last bucket list role. I did the other two in college: Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing) and Elizabeth Proctor (The Crucible), but I’d jump at the chance to do either again. Of course, almost 20 years older, I’d do them much differently.
If I had a much much much better rock voice, I’d love to do Jesus in a gender bending Jesus Christ Superstar. But I’ll do the world a favor and save that one for the shower.
Type cast?
As for me, Jean Valjean.
Or Cyrano de Bergerac (the source of my screen name).
Teddy in Arsenic and Old Lace
I can’t sing or dance, and have never tried acting.
If this is about FANTASY, well, I wish I had the talent to play any number of roles, even though I’m sure I’d be terrible if I ever actually tried.
If I were EVER to try for a role in an amateur theater company… I’d audition for Shelly “The Machine” Levene in*** Glengarry Glen Ross***, since that’s one of my favorite plays. I’d never be able to play an alpha male like Ricky Roma, but I think I’d be a convincing sad sack.
I’d love to play Judas–we should get something started. 
My high school only did musicals every other year, and unfortunately (or perhaps not), we had some stellar dancers, so the Powers That Be always picked shows with a lot of dancing, and therefore the fat girl didn’t get great parts. 
My senior year we almost did Sweeney Todd, and I would have been Mrs. Lovett, without a doubt. I’m still bitter, so I guess that’s my top pick.
Others would definitely include the Baker’s Wife from Into the Woods, Adelaide in Guys and Dolls, and Tracy in Hairspray. Most of the other really good roles are out of my vocal range, alas.