Greatest Character
Greatest Character
#0Greatest Character
Posted: 7/27/04 at 8:02am
In your opinion, who is your favorite character to appear in a musical?
Here is my choice:
I think Angel in RENT is one of the best characters ever to appear in a musical.
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#1re: Greatest Character
Posted: 7/27/04 at 8:33am
Millie in Thoroughly Modern Millie...unfortunatley it closed =(
Rose in Gypsy
Peter Allen (a la Hugh Jackman) in Boy From Oz
Tracy Turnblad in Hairspray
Belle in Beauty and the Beast
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Updated On: 7/27/04 at 08:33 AM
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#2re: Greatest Character
Posted: 7/27/04 at 10:43am
Mrs. Lovett - Sweeney Todd
Billy Bigelow - Carousel
Curly - Oklahoma
Rose - Gypsy
Curly is perhaps less difficult than the others to pull off well, but I give him credit just for the songs he gets to sing.
Updated On: 7/27/04 at 10:43 AM
nycdncr
Leading Actor Joined: 7/25/04
#3re: Greatest Character
Posted: 7/27/04 at 10:43amCharity in 'Sweet Charity'....this role takes a powerhouse talent to work.
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day that says, "I will try again tomorrow."
popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#4re: Greatest Character
Posted: 7/27/04 at 10:50amOr alternatively, Christina Applegate.
Nothing precious, plain to see, don't make a fuss over me. Not loud, not soft, but somewhere inbetween. Say sorry, just let it be the word you mean.
#5re: Greatest Character
Posted: 7/27/04 at 10:50amRose in GYPSY.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#7re: Greatest Character
Posted: 7/27/04 at 10:58am
Paul in A Chorus Line...
"Who am I anyway? Am I my Resume? That is a picture of a person I don't know."
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#8re: Greatest Character
Posted: 7/27/04 at 10:58am
Female - Eliza Doolittle, MY FAIR LADY
Male - Don Quixote, MAN OF LA MANCHA
#9re: Greatest Character
Posted: 7/27/04 at 11:03am
I am going to echo DGrant, but I am going to add to that list
John Wilkes Booth - Assassins
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
PJ
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#11re: Greatest Character
Posted: 7/27/04 at 11:15amEffie Melody White in DREAMGIRLS
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#12re: Greatest Character
Posted: 7/27/04 at 11:22am
Rose- GYPSY
Elphaba and Glinda- WICKED
Mark and Roger- RENT
Maria- SOUND OF MUSIC
Phantom- PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
Jean Valjean- LES MIZ
Tracy, Edna, and Wilbur Turnblad- HAIRSPRAY
Peter Allen (as said previously, "a la Hugh Jackman)-BOY FROM OZ
Princeton- AVENUE Q
There are more...lemme think of them...
wickedfan2
Broadway Star Joined: 7/8/04
ponine24601
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/03
#14re: Greatest Character
Posted: 7/27/04 at 11:29am
Elphaba-Wicked
Eponine-Les Mis
Penny-Hairspray
"People asking questions, lost in confusion. Well I tell them there's no problems, only solutions."
~The one and only John Lennon
JaiLuver2007
Chorus Member Joined: 7/27/04
#15re: Greatest Character
Posted: 7/27/04 at 12:11pm
Angel in RENT (2000 & 2004 Jai Rodriguez)
Zanna in Zanna Don't!(off broadway Jai Rodriguez)
Kate in Zanna Don't
Conrad in Bye Bye Birdie
My Jai Rodriguez Web Site
#16re: Greatest Character
Posted: 7/27/04 at 12:12pm
Mrs. Lovett --Sweeny!
'The Devil be hitting me!'--Whitney Houston
BWayBoy88
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/23/04
#17re: Greatest Character
Posted: 7/27/04 at 12:25pmI would have to agree with Mrs Lovett for female and the Leading Player for male.
#18re: Greatest Character
Posted: 7/27/04 at 12:27pm
Elphaba and Glinad-Wicked
Millie-Thoroughly Modern Millie
Eliza-My Fair Lady
#19re: Greatest Character
Posted: 7/27/04 at 12:33pmSweeney Todd
BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"
#20re: Greatest Character
Posted: 7/27/04 at 12:33pm
hmmmm... I know that there are more great ones than just this, but just because of my namesake...
EMCEE!!! He's really the glue that bound a lot of Cabaret together, and I felt like every time I saw the show I got something new from it, because of the Emcee. I loved the way that he was always lurking and that he represented so many different things. It's probably an amazing role to play.
ponine24601
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/03
#21re: Greatest Character
Posted: 7/27/04 at 12:35pmyeah i agree. lucky adam and joel, and just about every actor that got to play the emcee.
"People asking questions, lost in confusion. Well I tell them there's no problems, only solutions."
~The one and only John Lennon
#22re: Greatest Character
Posted: 7/27/04 at 12:38pmI used to be able to rattle off the names of all nine (I think it's 9) but not now. Ask me later.
insomniak
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/7/04
#23re: Greatest Character
Posted: 7/27/04 at 12:46pm
Mark. (Rent) He is a quiet character, the backround guy, but he has so much depth that is easy to miss when portrayed by the wrong actor.
I don't think that Elphaba is that great in the musical, but in the book she's a really fascinating character. Please don't hit me.
Updated On: 7/27/04 at 12:46 PM
ponine24601
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/03
#24re: Greatest Character
Posted: 7/27/04 at 12:53pmyeah i agree. you don't really get to see that much of her personality in the musical. in the book she is quite interesting.
"People asking questions, lost in confusion. Well I tell them there's no problems, only solutions."
~The one and only John Lennon
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