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Most insignificant title role?
Joined: 12/31/69
#25re: Most insignificant title role?
Posted: 6/18/06 at 11:25pmjimmy dean in COME BACK TO THE FIVE & DIME, JIMMY DEAN, JIMMY DEAN
#27re: Most insignificant title role?
Posted: 6/18/06 at 11:34pm
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n.
*An opening made by rending; a rip.
*A breach of relations between persons or groups; a rift."
Again, it wasn't my idea. I explained to my friend that it has multiple meanings, but she only took it at face value.
Hence the shrug.
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#29re: Most insignificant title role?
Posted: 6/19/06 at 1:41amThe Drowsy Chaperone
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thevolleyballer
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#30re: Most insignificant title role?
Posted: 6/19/06 at 2:15amI have to say Bye Bye Birdie. I'm doing the show now, and Conrad has, what, twenty lines and a few songs? He really has such an insignificant time on stage, and though he's what everything focuses around, it's really about Albert and Rosie.
Colle
Broadway Star Joined: 2/13/06
#31re: Most insignificant title role?
Posted: 6/20/06 at 8:06amThat is true, wickedrentq, although Gigi does refer to Kim, the main character, as "Miss Saigon."
Link Larkin Wanabe
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#32re: Most insignificant title role?
Posted: 6/20/06 at 11:03am
Actually in a production of Fiddler I was in...the Fiddler was onstage quite a bit..a pressence in many of the scenes..especially Tevye's monologues. And danced a drunken Tevye home from the bar after L'Chaim, as he runs into the constable, who scares the Fiddler away.
Akiva
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#33re: Most insignificant title role?
Posted: 6/20/06 at 11:14am
I agree with Link Larkin Wannabe, In a production I did last summer, the Fiddler was featured in many scenes with no dialouge but still there to represent the tradition and how it never is far from Tevye.
Updated On: 6/20/06 at 11:14 AM
#34re: Most insignificant title role?
Posted: 6/20/06 at 11:16amThe Woman in White is a large part of the story, but a smaller role in the actual show.
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...
Marguerite Chauvelin
Broadway Star Joined: 7/19/05
#36re: Most insignificant title role?
Posted: 6/20/06 at 11:25am
(About Mame)
"You know the real name of this show is Vera. The only reason they changed the name was because Jerry Herman couldn't think of a rhyme for it. Steve Sondheim could have"
Bea Arthur- Original Broadway Vera
If Percy Blakeney were in Les Mis....
Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)
Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)
#37re: Most insignificant title role?
Posted: 6/20/06 at 12:03pm
How about INTO THE WOODS?
Hehe... I was in a production of this way back when, and since they had more actors than they had roles, they cast a "chorus" of dancing trees. (Don't ask; it was high school.) So, unless you consider significance in terms of metaphor (like FIDDLER), I'd say that our title characters were by far the least significant. :)
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wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#38re: Most insignificant title role?
Posted: 6/20/06 at 1:07pmAh, true Colle. I was pushing that one a little, since Miss Saigon as the title is really supposed to refer to Kim.
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#39re: Most insignificant title role?
Posted: 6/20/06 at 1:59pmI think in JCS Jesus isnt as big a role as Judas imo. It would seem as if Judas is the show.
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"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
#40re: Most insignificant title role?
Posted: 6/20/06 at 2:17pmMarguerite - Bea said that at a roast/tribute of Jerry Herman. I don't think she was serious.
"I don't wanna see that!" -Aunt Sassy (as played by Valerie Cherish) on Room & Bored
NYC4Life
Broadway Star Joined: 1/23/06
#41re: Most insignificant title role?
Posted: 6/20/06 at 2:46pm
"I always thought Aida is more about Amneris than Aida. Not to say the role is small. "
Have you not seen the show? Aida is very much about Aida.
jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#42re: Most insignificant title role?
Posted: 6/20/06 at 3:07pmthe beast in beauty and the beast, compare his songs/ role to say.. gaston and you'll see what i mean
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EdmundOG
Broadway Star Joined: 7/9/05
#43re: Most insignificant title role?
Posted: 6/20/06 at 3:29pm
Most of you are naming roles with very little stage time, but whom the entire show revolves around, (i.e. The Mikado) or someone who has a lot of time but does not seem to be the MAIN character. (Aida, Jesus)
A truly less-than significant title role is one I have played, that of Rocky Horror in The Rocky Horror Show. The plot wouldn't change much, or at all if Frank was planning on making him a couple weeks after Brad and Janet showed up.
JustABroadwaybaby2
Broadway Star Joined: 4/6/06
#44re: Most insignificant title role?
Posted: 6/20/06 at 3:54pm
BJH-
The Drowsy Chaperone was a name that was used because it was easy to forget especially because the drowsy chaperone wasn't the main character, said Bob Martin.
"I'm thinking about how if you took the W in
answer, and the H in ghost, and the extra A in aardvark, and the T in listen, you could keep saying WHAT but no one would ever hear you because the whole word would be silent."
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#45re: Most insignificant title role?
Posted: 6/20/06 at 3:59pm
I always thought Aida is more about Amneris than Aida. Not to say the role is small.
I also think JCS is more about Judas than Jesus.
I don't think JCS is necessarily "more about" Judas, but the story is definitely told more from Judas's perspective. The role of Jesus is by no means "insignificant," though.
However, Aida's story both revolves around the title character and is HER story, not Amneris's.
Updated On: 6/20/06 at 03:59 PM
#46re: Most insignificant title role?
Posted: 6/20/06 at 4:57pm
It's not a person, but what about Carousel? Other than that being where the main characters meet, and the basic metaphor of the cycle of abuse, what significance does it even have in the show? I wouldn't even say it's the best metaphor they could have come up with...
Same thing goes with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - the show is more about the people than the car (well, it SHOULD be at any rate).
Damn Yankees -- the team in the show is the Senators. The hatred of the Yankees causes Joe to make his deal, but that's where their significance pretty much ends.
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#47re: Most insignificant title role?
Posted: 6/20/06 at 6:53pmIt's called Aida for a reason, but I get why you think that.
#48re: Most insignificant title role?
Posted: 6/20/06 at 6:57pm
BJH-
The Drowsy Chaperone was a name that was used because it was easy to forget especially because the drowsy chaperone wasn't the main character, said Bob Martin.
That's odd...Wonder why he wanted a title that people would forget...That makes no sense.
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