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bullet Posted: 10/26/06 at 5:31pm
Dream roles

    Mr. McAfee    been Albert twice.........wanna be the dad now in Bye Bye Birdie
    Ben Franklin or John Hancock (with Marty as J. Adams)  in 1776 (a show I bet Gaafa's never done)
    Billly Flynn in Chicago
    Fagan in Oliver
   
   I would also like to do "The Devil and Billy Markham" and "Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll"
  
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bullet Posted: 10/27/06 at 9:52am

I tried to chime in on this while the board was being bipolar, and it got lost, so I guess I'll try again.

Favorite roles:

  • Norman in Boys Next Door
  • Sir Toby in Twelfth Night
  • Kholenkov in You Can't Take It With You
  • Judge Brack in Hedda Gabler
  • Father in Twelve Angry Children -- oops, I mean Cheaper By The Dozen

Favorite tech shows:

  • I'm Not Rappoport
  • 42nd Street
  • Here We Come Gathering

Favorite directing gigs:

  • T Bone N Weasel
  • The Shawl
  • A Walk In The Woods
  • Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

There's only one show I've done twice: Of Mice And Men, playing the Boss both times.  The first time was a wonderful experience, a near miss on the favorites list above; second time was a disaster of Biblical proportions.

Dream roles:

  • Falstaff
  • Willy Loman
  • Buddy or Ben in Follies (except I'd have to learn to sing and dance first )
  • The Cowardly Lion in Wizard of Oz (ditto)
  • Lear (yeah, right)
  • And about six hundred others that I'll never have time, talent, or opportunity for .
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bullet Posted: 10/29/06 at 5:55pm
Originally posted by jayzehr


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Took me a minute to figure out which one you meant.  I've never heard anyone call them by their first names.  :)  Love the show though.  Hope to do it someday.
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bullet Posted: 10/30/06 at 8:04pm
I couldn't think of any dream roles, but I've had a few favorite off-the-wall roles over the years:

Dracula - Dracula, the Musical? (The comedy, not the drama). Funny show, and a lot of holding my eyes really wide for several hours at a stretch.

5 character roles (including Bert Healy and the laundry man) in Annie. Oh, all in the same show. Between the quick-change and the character development, that was more fun than it should have been. I never checked, but I might have had more stage time than Annie!

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bullet Posted: 11/30/06 at 5:53pm

As everyone else from our theatre has chimed in, I guess I will also.

Favorites that I played:

Sancho - LaMancha

Nicely Nicely - Guys and Dolls

Charlie (x2) - The Foriegner

Sam Byck - Assassins (Yes now there are at least three of us that like the show)

Now my Tech Favs:

Somethings Afoot - Special Effects, set design and construction

The Forienger - set design & construction

Scrooge - Set Design and construction (the Director tricked me into doing the job by saying that we probably didn't have the ability to do all the play required and dummy me, I took up the challenge)

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bullet Posted: 11/30/06 at 7:39pm
Originally posted by pdavis69

Sam Byck - Assassins (Yes now there are at least three of us that like the show)

Ah, yes... "Assassins".  I had the pleasure of swinging the role of Squeaky and performing it for two weekends.  Awesome, awesome show!!!  If I was a guy, I'd totally use Sam's monologue for auditions!

 

 

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bullet Posted: 11/30/06 at 7:58pm
Originally posted by teridtiger

Originally posted by pdavis69

Sam Byck - Assassins (Yes now there are at least three of us that like the show)

"Assassins".  I had the pleasure of swinging the role of Squeaky and performing it for two weekends.  Awesome, awesome show!!! 

Aha!  Well, Patrick, there are now at least 4 people on this Board that like the "A" show.  Nyah, nyah, Marty!

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bullet Posted: 3/09/07 at 2:05am
Ooh, fun topic!
 
Favorite roles:
Rolf in "The Sound of Music"
Charlie Dalrymple in "Brigadoon"
Burt Healey in "Annie"
Skimbleshanks in "Cats"
Asparagus in "Cats"
 
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More than once:
Brigadoon (once Harry Beaton, once Charlie Dalrymple)
Anything Goes (tap-dancing sailor both times)
Cats (see above)
The Fantasticks (Three times--and every time I was "The Man Who Dies!"  I wanted so badly to be The Boy, which is why I kept auditioning--and I was beaten out by the same actor twice at two different theaters!)
 
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bullet Posted: 5/23/07 at 3:27pm
Acting:
Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol"
Macduff in "Macbeth"
Lenny in "Rumors"
Pellinore in "Camelot"
Owen in "The Foreigner" (fairly small role, but bad guys are always fun, and he is NASTY!)
 
Directing:
 "Spitfire Grille"
"In Good Spirits"
"Steel Magnolias"
"On Golden Pond"
"The Good Doctor"
 
More than once:
"A Fiddler On The Roof" (Lazar Wolfe, Reb Morchka, Rabbi)
Brian in "No Sex Please, We're British!"twice
Eugene in "Grease" twice
"Hamlet" (various roles in two productions)
"A Christmas Carol" (Scrooge & Cratchit - go figure!)
"Zoo Story" (Peter & Jerry)
"Rumors" (Lenny & Officer Welch)
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bullet Posted: 5/24/07 at 11:49am
Hey Bonnie.... PIPPEN  PIPPEN PIPPEN!!!!!
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