# Your Dream Role On The Stage **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 18, 2008, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dream-role-on-the-stage/464133 "2008-09-18T12:43:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dream-role-on-the-stage/464133/21 "2008-09-19T04:34:30Z")
I did get to play a witch in Macbeth, which was great. I always wanted to play Mercutio, the best part of Romeo & Juliet, and Iago, greatest Shakespeare villain of them all. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dream-role-on-the-stage/464133/22 "2008-09-19T04:35:15Z")
The most fun I’ve ever had onstage was in _The Fantasticks_, as The Man Who Dies. I’d love to play Ell Gallo though. But dream role? Sweeney Todd. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dream-role-on-the-stage/464133/23 "2008-09-19T04:35:16Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > If I could sing, I’d kill to play Jesus or Judas in _Jesus Christ Superstar_. Oddly enough, I’m an atheist. Aaaand it appears you’re me. Rock-hard atheist, die-hard fan of _Jesus Christ Superstar_, would love to play Judas, can’t sing worth shit, beans, dirt or tiny papier-mache frogs. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dream-role-on-the-stage/464133/24 "2008-09-19T04:55:03Z")
> [@glee](#): > > If I could sing, I’d like to perform [‘Sit down, you’re rocking the boat’](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7kzsZreG0o) from Guys and Dolls. Showstopper. 😃 > > If I could act, I’d like to deliver Lady Bracknell’s line in Oscar Wilde’s ‘Importance of being earnest’ [“A … handbag?!”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1jL-9S-oD8&feature=related) 3 seconds of joy. 🙂 Ooh, good ones! I briefly toyed with the idea of auditioning for the part of Lady Bracknell in my college play (picture it, a 6’2" 19-year old male weighing about 160 pounds before the drag - I think I could have pulled it off!) but I was too chicken. I had Edith Evans down pat, too. My pick would be Cyrano. Besides the fact that it’s my favorite play and my favorite character in any drama, it’s that rare lead that does not require good looks. The part also speaks to me on a personal level, although I am no hero and definitely no poet, nevertheless I yearn to be that man. Roddy ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dream-role-on-the-stage/464133/25 "2008-09-19T05:15:32Z")
I would love to play Ricky Roma in Glengarry Glen Ross. I have half of that guy’s lines memorized already. You stupid fuckin’ cunt. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dream-role-on-the-stage/464133/26 "2008-09-19T05:44:32Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > If I were a woman (or could pull off convincing drag), my dream role would be every wannabe Broadway chorine’s dream role, **Mama Rose** from _Gypsy!_ Oh absolutely! Or any other Merman role. Or Fanny Brice in _Funny Girl._ Or Dolly Levi . . . but not as a woman, only as a female impersonator doing Carol Channing. But if I really had unlimited talent, I’d want to do Sondheim. Probably George in _Sunday in the Park . . . ._ ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2008, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dream-role-on-the-stage/464133/27 "2008-09-19T08:55:40Z")
I’d love to do John Adams in 1776. One major problem, I’m female. ---
**Author:** ![BrynSublime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@BrynSublime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrynSublime)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dream-role-on-the-stage/464133/28 "2008-09-20T14:00:06Z")
If I was a guy, my top pick would be **Ben Rumson in Paint Your Wagon**. I know most people thought the movie was crap, but it’s one of my favs. As a girl, I’d love to try Velma Kelly in Chicago (although who could ever top Bebe Neuworth?), or Eponine or Fontine in Les Mis. Although, my number one choice of musical roles has to go to **Lola in Damn Yankees** , simply because it was the first role I became obsessed with playing at the age of seven or eight. I actually used to put on strip tease shows singing “Whatever Lola Wants” for my parents (way before I understood what a strip tease was)! I guess my mom never set me strait because she was just so happy that I was into musical theatre as much as she was! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-dream-role-on-the-stage/464133.md?page=1)