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I’d also love to play the emcee, though given my girth I’d have to play him as more of a Hermann Göring-esque evil clown.
Another five pics:
Zorba in (what’s the name of that musical? ah yes… ) Zorba
Saul in King David
Charles J. Guiteau in Assassins
Max Bialystok in The Producers (I’d really love to see Gene Wilder play Bialystok just once, or perhaps Brooks himself- Richard Dreyfus just had to bow out of the role due to back problems, but Jason Alexander would seem a shoe in to replace him)
Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind. When we read that play in eight grade, it basically got me interested in doing drama throughout high school, and the teachers really liked how I read that part. I guess even at that age something appealed to me about taking on a religious blowhard. I’d also love to play E.K. Hornbeck from the same show. That’s probably more up my alley temperamentally. The character is a cynical journalist (hmm) based on H.L. Mencken, who I also admire.
Like zev_steinhardt, I’d love to be Jean Valjean. I already know the music, and have performed much of it in solo efforts during my high school choir years. I’ve also always loved doing Shakespeare, and have often thought it’d be loads of fun to sing it, but I don’t know of any musical adaptations. I did play Romeo in the high school production of R&J, but sadly, it was a strictly non-musical role.
The closest I’ve come to musical acting was playing Linus in a bit from You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. That count?
Elphaba in Wicked (No, I don’t love Idina Menzel…).
Lucy the Slut from Avenue Q
Petra in A Little Night Music (The maid - “The Miller’s Son” is one of my favorite songs EVER)
Amy from Company (I can sing “Not Getting Married” from start to finish - my husband looks at me like I’ve grown two heads when I do this in the car…his usual response is “You scare me.”)
Mama Rose in Gypsy (someday, I’m too young for this role right now)
Cathy in The Last Five Years
Jane in Jane Eyre
Velma in Chicago
Lola from Damn Yankees
Gertrude from Seussical
Sara Jane Moore from Assassins
Katie from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
I know there are more, but that’s a pretty good sampling.
I would also want to play Adelaide, I’ve loved that role since before I understood the “motel clerk” line.
Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd, just so sweetly diabolical. And I love the little pigtails.
Lois Lane in Kiss Me, Kate, because I can sing “Always True To You” in my car like nobody’s business.
And put me down for another wannabe female Judas.
Not so well known anymore, it seems, but I would adore playing either Donna/Oolie or Gabby/Bobbi in City of Angels.
Lucy in Jekyll & Hyde, as well.
I need to stop now, or I’ll get all depressed and remeber I could have done all of this if I hadn’t decided to smoke, stay fat, and stop taking dance lessons.
I would love to be able to pull off a dancer role like Will Parker in Oklahoma!. Or Snoopy in You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown.
Then of course there is; the King in The King and I, Billy Flynn in Chicago, Conrad Birdie in Bye Bye Birdie, and Eve is the Emcee than I want to Sally Bowles in Cabaret but only with the Bob Fosse choreography.
By the way, if you think I’m being modest? My best friend David and I played Henry and Eleanor in a college production of The Lion in Winter (a student show, not a main-stage one, thank goodness). A friend of ours said it was like watching Sandra Dee and Tab Hunter in Macbeth.
Of course, seeing as I can’t sing worth a crap, I can never really have a major role in a musical (of course, I’m not claiming to be a superb actor or anything, but my acting is 100x better than my singing!)
