Even though I can't act to save my life, there are still parts in various plays or novels that's I'd really like to perform. Sometimes they're male, sometimes they're female, either way this is a thread for all of those parts that you've always wanted to act.
Desdemonda Othello Javert Les Miserables Sancho Man of La Mancha Benedict or Beatrice Much Ado About Nothing Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Eliza Doolittle, My Fair Lady Bianca, Kiss Me, Kate Velma Kelly, Chicago
*tries to find one that isn't in a musical*
I second the Much Ado About Nothing ones!
As for musicals, there's much more, many many more. Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
Mr. Croup from Neverwhere Flagg the Joker
Hmm... These are all kinda the same character.
Iago Richard III Robin Goodfellow (I already played him but I loved it; I was still in gymnastics and I could do handstands and such while talking)
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Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
The part that I would KILL for...well, almost..is The Baker's Wife in Into the Woods
I also think that I'm really well suited for Maria in The Sound of Music
A part that I would like to play AGAIN because I think I could do it better now is the Narrator from Joseph and the ATD.
I would love to try some more dramatic, non musical roles. I played Eleanor in The Lion in Winter and I absolutely adored the experience.
Posted by imogen (Member # 5485) on :
I wanna be Eponine in Les Miserables.
When I was younger, I always wanted to be Liesl Von Trapp from The Sound of Music - but somehow, 21 going on 22 just doesn't have the same ring.
Posted by lcarus (Member # 4395) on :
Don Quixote Rutledge from 1776 Joseph (hah!) (vocally right up my alley, though) either male lead from Chess--I'm vocally more suited to play the Russian, but the American part is very compelling to me
I'd love to play Cromwell again in A Man for All Seasons. Posted by Valentine014 (Member # 5981) on :
Liesl in The Sound of Music Rizzo in Grease Eponine in Les Miserables
I know I can think of many more, and YES! Velma!!
Edit: Wow, imogen, I didn't refresh before I posted, you and I have very similar tastes. Everyone always wants to be Cosette and Maria.
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Posted by skrika03 (Member # 5930) on :
R2D2 Scooby Doo (I haven't seen to movie, only the cartoons) Oooh, what was the name of that crazy gal in The Brother's Karamazov ? She was in love with Alyosha and slammed her finger in the door? That happened to me once. But it wasn't on purpose. Can't remember her name. Anna Karenina Sophia from War and Peace If I were in LOTR, I would be Gimli. Then I would get to sit behind Legolas on the galloping horse :drools: P.S. the neurotic chick in Chess I used to sing that "Long ago in someone else's lifetime" song in the shower.
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Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof (I want to grow a big beard)
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Narnia, I'm doing the vocal direction for Into the Woods this summer! It's a kids' production, and I'm SO excited. Posted by ReikoDemosthenes (Member # 6218) on :
Hamlet from...Hamlet and Edgar from King Lear
I love those two roles...
Posted by Human (Member # 2985) on :
I'd love to play Hamlet, Prince of Denmark...and anything from Reduced Shakespeare.
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
Why has no one said Ender? And you people call yourselves fans?
Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :
I was actually going to say that mazer-taser fellow from EG.
fallow
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
heh heh.
Raia, that sounds like so much fun!! I'm jealous!
I myself would like to play Hamlet. I could temporarily flatten my boobs and speak in a low hoarse voice.
Ok. Yeah, that's a bad idea. I just love the soliloquies.
I'd do Katherine in The Taming of the Shrew. She's got some great monologues. And I can definitely do Shrew. Posted by ReikoDemosthenes (Member # 6218) on :
*smacks forehead for forgetting to think of the Ender books*
I would definately enjoy acting as Valentine as in Ender's Game...
Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :
Pooka, is that song really in the play? I've never seen it, so I wouldn't know.
What happened was, I downloaded a bunch of the music from Chess, and that song was one of the ones I downloaded, then I checked the soundtrack out of the library, and Someone Else's Story isn't on it. It's been bugging me for a long time. Who sings it? And When?
Posted by fiazko (Member # 5812) on :
Sarah Brown from Guys and Dolls.
Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
Hotspur, too.
Posted by lcarus (Member # 4395) on :
It is in the play. It is sung by Florence. I thnk it might not have been in the British version.
Posted by Ryan Hart (Member # 5513) on :
My favorite character ever is Peter from An Enemy of the People.
I would also love to be Hamlet in Hamlet.
I'm now living my dream of being Javert in Les Miserable. (Show is this weekend)
Posted by Trogdor the Burninator (Member # 4894) on :
I'd like to be that guy on "Oblivious' on Spike Tv.
Posted by lcarus (Member # 4395) on :
Yep . . . that's it.
Posted by lcarus (Member # 4395) on :
btw, Chess fans, Cor and I sang the "Terrace Duet" in a performance for the Rotary Club this year, and I will be using "Where I Want To Be" as an audition piece for this year's production of 1776. Posted by Jill (Member # 3376) on :
Belle in "Beauty and the Beast" Jo in "Little Women" Hamlet in "Hamlet" Jane Eyre in "Jane Eyre" Elizabeth Bennet in "Pride and Prejudice" Beatrice in "Much Ado About Nothing" Puck in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Narrator in "Joseph" Jean Valjean in "Les Miz" Lady M in "Macbeth" Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet" Jill in "Butterflies are Free" Jacee in "Comic Potential" Ella in "Ella Enchanted" Jonas in "The Giver" Charlotte Doyle in "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle" Meg in "Wrinkle in Time" Ender in "Ender's Game
Posted by Ophelia (Member # 653) on :
Mrs. Lovett from Sweeney Todd Of course, I'd have to be able to sing first. Which I can't. Alas.
I also always wanted to be Alia from the Dune books. But that might just have a little something to do with my answer to the fictional crush thread . . .
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
I would kill to do any of the Sweeney Todd roles. I can sing Johanna, but I just don't fit the part physically. I imagine that she wasn't 6 feet tall. Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
Hedda Gabler from Hedda Gabler Nora from A Doll's House Lady Macbeth from Macbeth Eowyn from LOTR Meg Murray from A Wrinkle in Time The White Witch from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Cruella DeVille from 101 Dalmatians Little Red Riding Hood from Into the Woods The Witch from Into the Woods Eponine from Les Miserables
I'm sure I'll think of others. (edit: I did)
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Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
I just watched the Lion, Witch, Wardrobe production at BYU. I kept thinking how fun Edumund would be to play.
Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :
same here MPH, but with the White Witch. Or Mrs. Beaver.
Posted by UofUlawguy (Member # 5492) on :
I would enjoy playing Fagin in Oliver! He has great lines and even better songs.
"I am reviewing the situation. Must a villain be a villain all his life?"
"Cheerio, but be back soon. I dunno, somehow I miss you."
"Why should we break our backs stupidly paying tax? Better get some untaxed income. You've got to pick a pocket or two."
Great stuff. But I'm not a tenor.
Posted by Sweet William (Member # 5212) on :
I'm definitely up for Aslan, but I'm going to let the witch just keep Edmund as the other children and I go skipping off into the woods. Hey, it's the Disney version.
Quasimodo Macbeth Shrek, definitely Shrek
Posted by Jenny Gardener (Member # 903) on :
Basically, if the part says "Strong Woman", I'm all over it. I want to be quirky, sexy, assertive, and powerful. I want people to fear me and admire me. I love playing the villain.
Posted by Vána (Member # 3262) on :
The Narrator from Joseph Eowyn from LotR Fred from Once Upon a Matress I'd like to do Mrs. Paroo from Music Man again.
I'm sure that there are others. But I'm sleepy and can't think of any more right now. Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
quote: Mrs. Lovett from Sweeney Todd
This year I'm singing "The Worst Pies in London", it's so much fun, she's such a kooky character!
I would like to play: Shakespeare: Hamlet, Richard III (Men get all the best roles- actually I'd just like to be in Hamlet as anything) Maria (from Twelfth Night) Beatrice (From Much Ado About Nothing) Musicals: Eliza Dolittle (My Fair Lady) Fantine (Les Miserables- If I was a man I would like to play Javert too...) Nancy (Oliver!) Other: Rosencrantz (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead)
Will add more when I think of them.
Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
Once upon a matress?
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
I'd really like to do Don Quixote/Cervantes in Man of LaMancha, but they'd never cast me for it. I have a Sancho body type. Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :
Oooo! I always wanted to be Ophelia (from Hamlet). Once I got together with a couple of friends and we were going to film the whole play, and I was going to be Ophelia, but we only did the first scene.
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