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An Ideal Role

Thu, 26 Jan 2006, 01:58 pm
Luke Heath11 posts in thread
Partly to get everyone who has been distracted from what this site is really for, but I would like to pose a two part question to the general theatrical populus.

1. If you could be cast in ANY stage role, what would it be?

2. If you could direct any play, regardless of cost, what would it be?


For me it would be:

1: Gallileo Figaro from We Will Rock You

2: A Streetcar Named Desire (or Luck of the Draw, when i finish writing it.)


Have a good day!!

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Thread (11 posts)

Luke HeathThu, 26 Jan 2006, 01:58 pm
Partly to get everyone who has been distracted from what this site is really for, but I would like to pose a two part question to the general theatrical populus.

1. If you could be cast in ANY stage role, what would it be?

2. If you could direct any play, regardless of cost, what would it be?


For me it would be:

1: Gallileo Figaro from We Will Rock You

2: A Streetcar Named Desire (or Luck of the Draw, when i finish writing it.)


Have a good day!!

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NormaThu, 26 Jan 2006, 02:26 pm

Re: An Ideal Role


1. Lady Macbeth
(I always wanted to play her, right from schooldays, tho it'd have to be Lady M's grandmother by now!)

2. MacBeth
(Either my Scottish ancestry or my dark side, or both)

Thou beslubbering reeling-ripe flirt-gill!
jassepThu, 26 Jan 2006, 03:54 pm

Re: An Ideal Role

1. Sweeny Todd

2. Pacific Overtures (Sondheim)

Jason

Thou fawning flap-mouthed clack-dish!
Walter PlingeThu, 26 Jan 2006, 05:24 pm

Re: An Ideal Role

1. Stage role (musical) fabrizio, light in the piazza
Stage role (non-musical) chance wayne, sweet bird of youth

2. Direct (musical) city of angels cy coleman, dave zippel
Direct (non-musical) sweet bird of youth, tennessee williams

great question!




Thou surly beef-witted malt-worm!
Walter PlingeThu, 26 Jan 2006, 08:01 pm

Re: An Ideal Role

Glad to see something fun, and interesting, and (touch wood) unlikely to cause any silly arguments.

1. Stage roles are suject to change depending on what I'm working on, but at the moment it would be a toss-up between Joanna (from COMPANY by Sondheim) or Cathy (from THE LAST FIVE YEARS by Jason Robert Brown)

2. As a director, I'd love to take on Kiss Me Kate by Cole Porter or something lovely and simple like I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change.
NaThu, 26 Jan 2006, 08:20 pm

Re: An Ideal Role

I'm not an actor, so I'll reply to the first one as a techie:

1. Stage manager. So much fun bossing the actors around!

2. My own play, or a play of a friend's. Other than that, Pirandello or Sartre. (Such an existentialist!)

Good question!

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Walter PlingeThu, 26 Jan 2006, 08:32 pm

Re: An Ideal Role

For me it would be


1.Touchstone in As You Like it (cracks me up every time I read it)


2. Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig

Thou goatish elf-skinned pignut!
Walter PlingeFri, 27 Jan 2006, 12:38 pm

Re: An Ideal Role

1. Josephine from 'HMS Pinafore'
2. 'Show Biz' (one of my friends is writing it) lol!
Walter PlingeFri, 27 Jan 2006, 08:50 pm

Re: An Ideal Role

loving this question...
1. so hard to choose! ummm love anita from west side. lucille from parade. logainne schwarzengrubenierre from 25th annual putnam county spellng bee. i could answer this one for days!
2. midsummer night's dream - it was the first play had a lead in, and it's always been my favourite. i've seen so many spins on it, i'd love to do my own!
Walter PlingeSat, 28 Jan 2006, 01:30 pm

Re: An Ideal Role

1. Dot in Sunday in the Park with George (Sondheim).

2. Edmond by David Mamet (ever since I saw Kenneth Brannagh in a production on the West End - glorious).

Gill :-)
Walter PlingeSun, 29 Jan 2006, 03:12 pm

Re: An Ideal Role

1. Nancy in Oliver

2. RENT - I was on a school excursion and we were watching a play I didn't really understand, but the theatre had a balcony so I was staging "Life Support" for half an hour or so. Plus I've never seen it, so I won't have any preconceptions about how it should look.

Good post, lots of fun.
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