Favorite/Best Role you've had - 2007/11/26 00:00I thought we could share what it is about a role that makes it our favorite or the best one we've ever had.
Three years and eleven shows later, my favorite is still Chava from Fiddler on the Roof. Though this is one of the smallest roles I've had, I learned a lot about acting because of the range of emotions she goes through. Plus, I got to work with a professional director, who also taught me a lot.
Also, this was the first time I felt like the cast was like a second family. Everyone was amazing to work with. When the show ended I actually cried, which was a first for me. Even though I moved away from the area I still keep in contact with some of the cast and crew.
It's experiences like this one that keep me involved even when I come home grumbling that everything is going wrong and I'm never doing another show again!
Post edited by: Annie, at: 2007/11/26 00:01~Annie Currently: Soloist for Night of Jazz fundraiser Recently: Miss Thorn (Ruthless! the Musical), Emma Carew (Jekyll & Hyde)
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Re:Favorite/Best Role you've had - 2007/11/26 19:31Even though it was a little role, "Horace" in 101 Dalmatians was my first musical theatre role and got my name out in the community. Jasper and I stole the show, and she's one of my really really great friends now.
Funny how your favorite roles aren't always the biggest...-Ali
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I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that when you have a smaller role you get to relax and hang out with the rest of the cast more during rehearsal.~Annie Currently: Soloist for Night of Jazz fundraiser Recently: Miss Thorn (Ruthless! the Musical), Emma Carew (Jekyll & Hyde)
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Re:Favorite/Best Role you've had - 2007/11/26 20:43Annie wrote: aliauthor wrote: Funny how your favorite roles aren't always the biggest...
I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that when you have a smaller role you get to relax and hang out with the rest of the cast more during rehearsal.
Yeah, very true. There isn't quite as much stress. -Ali
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Re:Favorite/Best Role you've had - 2007/11/30 11:53i'm dying for some bigger roles but no ones given me any yet so..... but anyway back on topic, this is a hard one! i'd have to say my top 3 to date (not in any particular order) would be Alice in The Best Christmas Pageant Ever because she is such a brat, Beth March in Little Women because i got to die, and this one character in a play we did at my church called Lord of Light, Prince of Peace. it was a small cast of only 5 main characters and none of the characters had names (there was Old Man, Young Man, Little Boy, Old Woman, and Young Woman with a Baby) i played Young Woman with a Baby. (it was kind of funny because the doll we used for the baby was the only one with a name. he was "Joshua") but anyway, it was really interesting because the play took place in a warzone on Christmas day and we are all taking refuge in this abandoned church. it was the first time i sang in front of an audience (i was the only one with a solo) but yeah it was fun.
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Re:Favorite/Best Role you've had - 2007/12/03 07:54In West Side story I was Anybodys and I had the greatest time ever. It was so much fun and I really love that show. I was dance captain of the Jets even though I wasn't in half those numbers cause the guys could not reme3mber anything but it was the best experience i've ever had. I also really enjoyed being Electrs in them greek tradegy Electra but then again my discription was A young women who spends most of her time wailing and screaming as her obsession with revenge turns her into an animal. it was bound to be entertainingCurrently Combeferre
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Re:Favorite/Best Role you've had - 2008/01/01 19:11hmmm...the last musical i did was Pirates of Penzance i was in the Daughters Chorus, i liked doing this show, though i didn't have a very big part and it was a pretty challenging show... it was cool though because i got to wear a fancy dress and my one and only line got a lot of laughs It also helped me to progress in acting and especially singing. I really want to start getting bigger roles though!! (i am in community youth theatre by the way) Favorite Shows: POTO, Wicked, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Legally Blonde, Hairspray, BATB, Music Man and more!
Currently in: R&H's Cinderella as a Stepsister!
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I was Widow Corney in OLIVER! It's the largest role I've had, and it was also a great challenge because my partner (Mr. Bumble) was an equity actor from New YOrk. Performing with such a skilled actor really raised the bar for me---I didn't want to look like an amateur compared with his performance. I also learned so much from him and the two other equity actors we had in the production!
I have also been Mrs. Cratchit twice in our theater's musical version of Dickens' A CHRISTMAS CAROL. I love being Mrs. Cratchit because my husband is Bob Cratchit, and it's wonderful to work closely with him. I also enjoy acting the part of the temperamental, fussy, constanly outspoken Mrs. C---she's totally unlike me!
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Re:Favorite/Best Role you've had - 2008/01/05 22:51I have only been in 3 shows and had 2 roles in 1 show, but I liked them all. I liked playing Sowerberry in Oliver, because I got to sing. I liked playing Brownlow in Oliver because I got to be the good guy. I liked playing John Arable in Charlotte's Web because I got to be the real good guy, but I loved playing Prof Marvel/the Wizard in The Wizard of Oz, because I got to the the really good guy. It is easy to say that the Wizard made a bunch of promises that he couldn't make good on, but Marvel did "trick" Dorothy into going home when she wanted to run away and he was out looking for her after the cyclone. As long as I can play opposite to some little girl who bats her eyes at me and thinks I am her hero, I will keep accepting those parts. The first time I play a really nasty guy will be a rude awakening for me!
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Narrator in Joseph- This was my first play and I was only 13 at the time, but I had so much fun. I loved all the different styles of music in the play, and I loved the cast and directors as well. I have only fond memories of my Joseph days. Also, I hadn't been introduced to the confidence-crushing world that is high school theatre, so I was completely confident with my ability the whole time, which unfortunately has not been the case since.
Jupiter in Cymbeline- God, this is such a wonderful play. I can't even describe how much I love Cymbeline just as a play, let alone how amazing it was to be in it. i loved being Jupiter because it was the first time I had a part that wasn't a narrator or ensemble, so I really got to play up the whole godly thing. Also, in the Shakespeare production of Pericles the year before, I was cast as Gower, who is pretty much the narrator, and I had no free time to socialize with anyone in the cast- I was either onstage or ready to go onstage. Jupiter, on the other hand, was only in the beginning and end of the play, so I actually got to spend time with my castmates for once. Also, our school put on an absolutely phenomanal production of this, and it always feels nice to be a part of something so great.
Actually... Those are the only 2 that really stand out right now, but hopefully I'll be able to add Belle to that list soon.- Caitlin / Cait -
Favorites Belle in Beauty and the Beast (2008), The Apostle Philip in Jesus Christ Superstar! (2007), Jupiter in Cymbeline (2006), Narrator in Joseph... (2005)
Now Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Cogworth in Beauty and The Beast hands down has been my favorite role to date. Also the biggest role I had gotten in theater at that point. It was so great considering I had gone from having like 20 lines in Camelot to having 200 something in Beauty and the Beast. Out of the like 15 scenes in the show I was in like 10 of them! Haha. It was an incredible productio nand I had sooo much fun, and grew as an actor like crazy.
Considering I use to consider myself a singer that can act, I'm getting closer to just calling myself An actor and a singer. That show was my trasition into becoming a better actor and I've been growing ever since then.Name: Bruce Current Production: None. Upcoming Auditions:
The Butler Did It Singing (Chandler)
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It also helped me to progress in acting and especially singing. I really want to start getting bigger roles though!! (i am in community youth theatre by the way) 
