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StarDreamer

Ever fall for your leading man/lady?

Have you?
bwaybrunette21

Not at all, I don't know why though. I haven't ever REALLY been in love yet but I'm still young. Although, once I was in Anything Goes and I was Bonnie and I was going out with the guy who played Billy. But I don't think that counts.
<3Wilson<3

sadly yes, I have a thing for guys who can sing and act....it's my weakness. Well the guy I liked....well actually I didn't fall for him, I already liked him before, now that I think about it. So actually no, I haven't fallen for a leading guy, but as I said already I love guys who can sing and act, so it would be long before I fall for a leading guy.
LesWickedPhantom

any guy who's remotely good-looking, and is a good actor/singer/BOTH makes me weak in the knees. Which is why I'm having such a hard time keeping a straight face in the play I'm in right now. My scene(s) with him make me too giddy to concentrate...lol
StarDreamer

I know the feeling =) When I did Annie the guy played Rooster and I was Annie. The one line I had to say to him and the one line he had to say to me we both were looking at the floor. Then came Music Man and he played Harold and I played Marian... that was interesting lol... literally 9 days before Opening Night we were finally able to sing Till There Was You looking into eachother's eyes lol. And Guys and Dolls is coming up and I have a feeling we'll end up as Sky and Sarah lol. But yea.
Tiny-Tot

No I haven't had that happen yet, but I am only 13. I guess if I ever get a crush on a guy a play i am in I will be up front with him since that is the way my personality is.
broadwaybabe1364

I have. I was in my school's production of HMS Pinafore and I played Little Buttercup and he played Captain Corcoran...but sadly...he liked the chick who played Josephine (aka. his daughter)...he was also 1st chair clarinet and I was 2nd...so we had to see each other every day....
catlike-tread

Several years ago I played Jeff Douglas in a production of Brigadoon. I fell for the girl playing Meg and while she was pursuing me on stage, I was pursuing her off. We've been together ever since and have gone on to be cast opposite each other again and again as Mr. and Mrs. Mayor in Seussical, Al and Rosie in Bye Bye Birdie, and most recently, Harry and Annabel in Lucky Stiff. They were all wonderful experiences (not so much Seussical as the director was psychotic and everyone was miscast: Come hear Horton the elephant sing Rent! Off-key!) and my love for my Meg grows stronger every day. I've met all of my past girlfriends in plays, but Brigadoon will always be my favorite show, and Meg, my favorite leading lady.
TheNextTenMinutes

My current boyfriend and I met on the set of a play I was directing and he was he lead in. I won't lie- I do get little crushes on all the men I work against. But in some ways, I think that chemistry is important...I mean you have to imagine being able to find them attractive offtsage too Wink
MademoiselleMusicals

Wink Wink lol. Nah never had a leading role - would love to! But in my little town, there aren 't that many males who can sing and act AND are around my age. Bummer. Mad
<3Wilson<3

I think it's the fact that they can sing and act that makes them attractive.
Ep-Griz-Reno

Wellllllll in

G&D the first time, my nathan was said to have a fling for me
G&D the SECOND time I liked my nathan
OKLAHOMA my Curly Liked me
LES MIS my marius was gay, soooooooooo haha
ANYTHING GOES my evelyn was my best friend


sooooooooooooo

it BASICALLY never works out for me

hahahah

((at least casting-wise with nennnnnzzzzz))

haha
snowhite880

Yes, actually...a lot of the time...I met my current boyfriend in theatre, as so many have...the hard thing about going out with your leading man/lady is that if you break up, you or him/her may not be mature enough to get over the fact that you just broke up, and the rehearsels and show can turn out to be very akward...i try to stay away from dating MY leading man, but if they can sing, dance, and act well...and if they are somewhat good looking, i really cant help myself...long live the hopeless romantics! Very Happy
happyguava

<3Wilson<3 wrote:
sadly yes, I have a thing for guys who can sing and act....it's my weakness.


Yes, mine too! I know the feeling; so many times!
Chimalmaht

In the plays I'm in, we always have the same leading guy. And he just annoys me, so I can't say I've ever fallen for a lead guy. I do have the most wonderful boyfriend in the world though, and he acts and sings, just not in the lead. Wink
broadwaybaby124

This is funny that this was brought up.
In the show I'm in now, we have a whole big circle of crushes going, its pretty crazy. I'm not in it though, which is slightly too bad because I find it very funny. (I'm interested in someone else whos not in the show Smile )
I'd use character names with this but I swore to keep people's secrets so, yeah. Two people are going out, but two guys like the girl in the couple. Another girl likes one of the guys who likes the girl in the couple. Yet another girl likes a different guy who likes the girl in the couple. Yet another girl likes the guy in the couple. There's more too, I'm positive of it, I just haven't been told/discovered it yet.
audreydarling

happyguava wrote:
<3Wilson<3 wrote:
sadly yes, I have a thing for guys who can sing and act....it's my weakness.


Yes, mine too! I know the feeling; so many times!


mine too..I fall for it over and over again!

well as
Jan in Grease I was too young..but Roger was nice..though I was like 11 so nothing happened
I was a secretary in How To Succeed and was connecting with Finch and Gatch..that didn't go past flirting for finch adn friendship for gatch ...here's where it gets fun
Adelaide in G&D ..i totally respected my Nathan as a friend..and he gave me my fist kiss onstage..but our ge difference was too big and we were friends.he had gorgeous eyes and a whole lot of talent!
Tzeitel in Fiddler..I sort of fell for Motel..we had GREAT chemistry onstage..but didn't talk offstage..he kissed me as well..lol..nothing happened..but we were a good stage couple..so I'm just waiting..but I totally fall for actors and singers..a guy with a good voice and looks and talent and a good personality in theatre..wow..I totally go weak in the knees!
NellGwyn

Does this count...?

I wasn't on stage, I was running crew and this guy in the cast (for Children of Eden) who played Cain kind of had a flirty thing going on, but I have a b/f who I love and he had a g/f. Wow, I'm just a flirt lol. Anyways to answer your question No, but I can deffinatly see how it would work
Fosca

Well, I had a crush on one of the leads in the first production I was involved in. I played a small role in the play. My character had only one three-word line that she said to his character. Every time I said this line, our eyes would meet briefly. At the time I cherished it like I cherished chocolate. Also, when we stood backstage together, I always wished that I had the guts to say something. At the time, I hadn’t any clue how to deal with my feelings, and decided it was best to keep my feelings secret.

It worked itself out for the best though. I eventually found a really nice guy that doesn’t have any relations towards theatre. For me, that’s the best way to go, because I don’t have to deal with the gossip the follows in the theatre department at college.
BroadwayBud

The Baker's Wife Embarassed
griz-elphie

I fell in love with the guy that played seymour in LSOH when I was in Audrey. I knew him before then though. But we're still together so that's happy and everything
opheliarose

I MARRIED my leading man! Mr. Green
goddesspsyche

I just finished a production of Oklahoma and over our three month run our Curly and Laurey started dating as did our Ado Annie and our Will Parker. I played Gertie Cummings and was dating our Ali Hakim for a time as well. I think faking emotion catches up to people.
DaddyDiesel

I was in Mame as Beau and ended up dating Mame for about 2 years. So Yeah. I dont know it depends on the lead. If there talented and good I will get a thing for them. But if they good and they know they are good and let everyone know how good they are. Im not so attracted. Diva women can be a big turn off. But a girl who can sing and be grounded is hot.
What Is This Feeling?

lol, funny topic. Ummmm when I was 10, I was Hansel in Hansel and Gretel. There were two sets of Hansels ad Gretels. (Doublecasted) I was "going out" with the other Gretel. So one night, my Gretel, couldn't perform that night, and I got to perform with my "girlfriend". We were very professional about it however. Lol, yes, my sister in the show, was my so called "gf". 4 yrs later, our puppy love didn't last, lol. Plus, I'm gay now, sooo lol... yeh
sunrae

Well, yes and no.

I think that I was very often attracted to my onstage counter-parts....I think it is hard not to be! But I never really fell for any of them. We just had good chemistry during rehearsals and onstage. But, nothing ever went further than that for me. Plus, even if something could have happened I never let it happen.

When my husband and I were engaged he came and saw me in Fiddler, and I think he was a bit jealous of Perchik! Haha! But he knows there's no real worries. He's not really into theatre much so he just doesn't understand how a group of people who don't really know each other can become so close in such a short amount of time...and then, in some cases never speak again!

It is a strange thing about the theatre. I know they usually call dancers gypsies...but really that is what we all are! We're all theatre gypsies traveling from one "family" to the next "family" making best friends everywhere we go but not always keeping in contact with the people we become so close to! It would make an interesting psychological study!
minesayrejoice

The young man I am in love with happened to be our male lead in high school. So, absolutely!
Broadwaybelter

I have only played opposite one guy who wasn't gay and he was my romantic counterpart four times. I have been told we have a great chemsitry in each company we've done shows in. We are always friends between the shows, but during the shows we always start flirting and then dating but afterword when we aren't together every weekend we just become friends again. Very Happy
Cake_in_Song

I used to be madly in love with the guy playing Higgins in our My Fair Lady. He came out of the closet about a year ago, but I still love him dearly, and we're close friends. I would have loved to play Eliza opposite him, but I ended up Mrs. Pearce instead. He was a little shocked, since the director was apparently very keen on him playing Higgins for me in my first call back. I thought we were great together in that audition, but the truth is, the director has been grooming the other girl for a lead for about four years now, and amazing chemistry isn't going to change that. If she breaks her leg or something, I'll have my chance...

One interesting fact: I've never done Fiddler on the Roof without Tevye falling for one of his daughters. It always puts a whole new spin on the show knowing that two cast members are hooking up. I'll never look at Far From the Home I Love in the same way again...
MademoiselleMusicals

Quote:
I'll never look at Far From the Home I Love in the same way again...


LMAO!!!

Agh it's so annoying as in my little town (hmmm reminds me of Beauty And The Beast), there is just NOONE who is into performing arts and is male. And around my age. There is someone I know, who fits all the criteria, but he has a GF. I would not go out with him even if he didn't have a GF. Not my type lol.
elleb~is~spiffy

Yes! I was Lady Larken in OUAM and I fell for Sir Harry. But Fred fell for Harry and Dauntless fell for Fred. So I was going to tell Harry that I liked him and Fred had gotten there, she said, "Can I talk to you?". He said, "Hold On". He came over to me when his friend (The King) came and I was like "Oh, Never Mind, I forgot!" So to wrap it up Harry (one of my best friends now)is with Winnifred, Dauntless is with the Queen (my best friend) the Jester (played by a girl) and the Minstral are going out and the King and I (no pun intended) are going strong!
Beat That! Wink
Pawzxx

lol...that would be like, umm super romantic! Cool
lucy-lu

AAAAActually yes it has, at a camp called Pine Forest, he was Shroder I was Lucy...lol, it was really funny though. and on the last day of camp he told me he liked ME too, ON THE LAST DAY!!!! now i have to wait A YEAR to see 'im again...lol Rolling Eyes
itsaboutonemoment

When I played Fiona in Brigadoon, I actually had a huge crush on the guy playing Charlie (the character who marries my character's sister). He seemed to like me too, we were always flirting, and I was so happy, thinking this might turn into something, until about 3 weeks into the rehearsal process, some girl came in and sat in the back. I asked Jeanie, "Who is that?" and she said, "Oh, that's Danny's* girlfriend." AAARRRGGGHHH!!!! He continued to flirt with me a lot, but I wasn't so happy about it anymore and didn't respond as much. With the way he flirted with me and knowing that he had a girlfriend, I felt it wasn't appropriate. Oh well.
Jenem

Quote:
Well, yes and no.

I think that I was very often attracted to my onstage counter-parts....I think it is hard not to be! But I never really fell for any of them. We just had good chemistry during rehearsals and onstage. But, nothing ever went further than that for me. Plus, even if something could have happened I never let it happen.

When my husband and I were engaged he came and saw me in Fiddler, and I think he was a bit jealous of Perchik! Haha! But he knows there's no real worries. He's not really into theatre much so he just doesn't understand how a group of people who don't really know each other can become so close in such a short amount of time...and then, in some cases never speak again!

It is a strange thing about the theatre. I know they usually call dancers gypsies...but really that is what we all are! We're all theatre gypsies traveling from one "family" to the next "family" making best friends everywhere we go but not always keeping in contact with the people we become so close to! It would make an interesting psychological study!


haha! You summed it up perfectly. I can totally relate.
candlestickjay

I'm Kim in Bye Bye Birdie, my current Nemesis got cast as Ursula and her boyfriend got Hugo while I might like Hugo I've also had a crush on the guy playing Al for a bit who happens to be cast against my best friend as Rosie. Oh yeah, and Conrad is just a hottie who EVERYONE has the hots for taken or not.

In LSOH last year I thought I might like the guy who played Sermour (I was Audrey) but then he freaked out about the kiss (I was an upperclassman) because he'd never kissed a girl before. That was...unpleasant. So something that could've been romantic suddenly wasn't. Like at all.
Kate_Monster

I'm ALWAYS falling for guys who are talented actors/singers
its just such a turn on!
However the leading guy is never "mine" seeing as I'm never the female lead. This year I've got a main role in my school production, but even though the guy I'm acting with is pretty much worshipped by every girl in my year and the year above, he's arrogant as arseholes, if you'll pardon my french. And he doesn't even have good reason to be, he's not good looking at all!
milkywhite24601

Yes. Since I'm really really into theatre, I'm often attracted to guys who share my interest. But when they're really really good, well, I go even more gaga. Lol-I know, great vocabulary word-right? But anyways-when I was in 6th grade and a chrous member of Once on This Island, I fell in love with the guy playing Daniel who was unfortunately 3 years older than me, and I was in love with him for the next three shows (we do a show at my church every year) but unfortuantely for me-he kinda didn't like me back. (Yea, I was in love with him for three years-how pathetic is that??? lol) but then the one romantic lead I've had, unfortunately, I HATED the guy I was working with SOOO much, so I didn't really fall for him...obviously. LOL But yea, I've liked others too.
bwayluvor31

Yes.... while playing Guenevere in Camelot I fell for the guy playing Arthur. He was really nice and we worked on lines/songs so often with each other that we became really close. That was the only time though; I think it really depends on the actor's personality, not just the fact that you're "in love" with someone on stage.
ShadowInTheWings

I work backstage, not onstage, and one of my favourite things to do is to speculate on who likes who in the cast. It's wildly fun, and causes many giggles during particular scenes. The cast I'm working with right now is insane with the hookups, I've having trouble keeping up- as our SM puts it "This is the most incestuous cast ever." Hee. Course, that's probably because they seem to have some sort of party after every single show.

As I don't play a role, I don't fall for "my" leading man- but every show I have ever worked there's always been one guy, usually the leading man, who I would get a slight crush on. Most of the time they're not even guys I talk to all that much (if at all), but guys that I like to watch while they're on stage, or that I flirt with if the opertunity comes up. It's all quite harmless, really, except when the guy in question has a girlfriend in the cast, which always makes me feel a little guilty.
Eponine93

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I've never done Fiddler on the Roof without Tevye falling for one of his daughters. It always puts a whole new spin on the show knowing that two cast members are hooking up. I'll never look at Far From the Home I Love in the same way again...


LOL. When I was in Fiddler every person in the cast in the girl's dressing rooms was in love with our Tevye. Which would have been perfectly normal except he was gay. Extremely gay. And none of the girls noticed except for me until he licked another boy on opening night.

And then I did another show with him and spent the entire time convincing a certain friend of mine who's also on the forums, *cough Milkywhite24601* that he was gay. Which she didn't realize until he told her that he was a drag queen on the weekends.
milkywhite24601

[/quote]And then I did another show with him and spent the entire time convincing a certain friend of mine who's also on the forums, *cough Milkywhite24601* that he was gay. Which she didn't realize until he told her that he was a drag queen on the weekends.[/quote]

Okay-so I wasn't the brightest person in the world. But hey-at least I did eventually figure it out!!!!!! lol But that's kind of true-(I know what I'm about to say isn't always true-but it's been for me in most of the plays I've been in, and same with other friends-so yeah) a lot of guys who do theatre (mostly musicals) are gay-so you have to be careful about falling in love with the leading man since there's definitely a chance he won't like you back...But still-the straight ones that are really talented seem to have that effect. lol
phantomphan85

I've just been cast as Sarah in Guys and Dolls and I have a bit of a crush on my Sky, but he's gay unfortunately.

Oh well...
ClareBell

I had a rule of not dating anyone in a cast I was part of... I like to keep business and pleasure totally apart. My fiancé hadn't even been to the theatre till we went to see Wicked in London, he's never had anything to do with the arts.
I Love Lockstock

When I playing Cinderella in Into the Woods, the guy who played the Baker was....wow. He was an amazing actor, a fantastic singer..he was just great. There was always flirting between us, and I miss it! Sadly, I never got his number, e-mail...and I've never seen him since. I thought I'd run into him at an audition sometime, but nope. Sad.
Sweeney Hyde

NOPE!
Da_Dark_Dude

no... Sad
Salome

ClareBell wrote:
I had a rule of not dating anyone in a cast I was part of... I like to keep business and pleasure totally apart. My fiancé hadn't even been to the theatre till we went to see Wicked in London, he's never had anything to do with the arts.


i could never be with someone who wasnt in the arts. or at least someone who is an arts person.
NoOneMournsTheWicked

My boyfriend and I met doing a show last year, but nothing happened between us until the summer. Now we're Maria and Tony in WSS.
me-shellmybelle

So I did was in a bunch of high school shows with this guy and we never really had anything going on until my best friend who is also "said guy's" best friend pointed him out as the perfect guy for me. So all through Guys and Dolls I tried to stand as close to him as possible backstage and flirt shamelessly at rehearsals. The awkward part is that I played a guy. During the summer we got together and then Beauty and the Beast auditions came about (side story- Im obsessed with Beauty and Beast and I have a fictional crush on the Beast) Anyway he played the Beast and it was a dream come true. Aww I still love that boy even though things ended once I went to college Sad
Mr T

I met my wife in "The Boyfriend" back in 1982. We have been married for 21 years. We are both just starting rehearsals for Sweeney Todd, She is playing Mrs Lovett and I am playing Todd. I think we have played opposite on at least 10 shows and our Daughter has just started playing leads opposite her Boyfreind who she met during Les Mis. Just goes to prove some Show romances do last!!!
Asha

I used to like my Daddy Warbucks (I'm Annie) and apparently there's FAR TOO MUCH romantic chemistry between us onstage, making warbucks look like a pedophile...
Sam I Am

When I played Leisl in the Sound Of Music, I fell for the guy who played Rolf. He had blond hair and blue eyes and I think he was around 18 at the time, making me jailbait at 16. Nothing happened except alot of gazing stares into his eyes during 16 going on 17.
Salome

i guess it happened a bit latr with you too since you are 23 weeks prego with no man huh?
xsophiex

only once Cool
PappyCat

Alas, the guy I'm playing opposite is gay...Shame, too...He's a cutie.
broadwayxdoll

our charlie brown was GOOOORGEOUS. and i was luck enough to play his little red-haired girl Very Happy <3333




too bad hes gay Sad
Jellicle_Jule

Wow, what a topic! XDDD

Well, yes and no. I wouldn't call either of us "leading," but we did play opposite each other. ^^ We just finished Anything Goes a couple of weeks back; I was Mrs. Harcourt, and my Whitney and I had some serious flirting going on, on-stage AND off. Razz I actually had to laugh during the finale in the first dress rehearsal--our Billy and Hope looked like wedding-cake toppers and weren't very romantic (due to his g/f watching like a hawk), and our Evelyn and Reno...well, they were good, but they were probably winging it. Meanwhile, the two of us are just hamming it up, singing and looking into each other's eyes like we wanted to snog each other's faces off. So the two main romantic pairs are awkward, while the not-so-main comic-relief old-people pair that's supposed to be shallow is deemed the most believable couple by the director! Oh, if only he knew. Very Happy

We still go at it occasionally. Razz

Other than that...well, I was a missionary in Guys and Dolls way-back-when, and I had a huge thing for our Nathan...who, ironically, was dating our Sarah. (And I think our Adelaide had a previous thing with our Sky...or maybe Nicely. Or both???) Said Nathan was also the Fagin to my Oliver. Razz


~JJ, who had way too much fun with this topic
ILoveToSing2010

Are Beast and Belle in my Beauty and the Beast are together haha. Its really funny. They started going out the week the show ended, everyone thinks it really cute. lol
Eponine93

I think it's a much interesting story when people in a show who's characters are not in love end up getting together.

For example, our Narrator in Into the Woods ended up going out with Florinda... It was the Jr. version, but still that's definitely not a couple Sondheim would write in.
metaphor17

Last summer, I played Kaa in The Jungle Book. The boy playing Baloo had a thing for me for about a month and finally asked me out in August... we're still dating Very Happy


This is him in the Baloo head and the Shere Khan jacket-thing...


This is me playing Kaa:


This is a blurry picture of us at Homecoming (his. I couldn't go to mine, I had a show Sad)
PappyCat

I used to think it was funny how often people hooked up during rehearsals..but than I realized that if you spend ALL your time with a certain group of people, and grow close the way a lot of cast members do, it's bound to happen.
sopranoopianoo

Hahaha... I can definitely see how it happens. Yet, I was just in GREASE and our Danny was an arrogant, non-chalant, hardly-shows-up-to-practice kind of guy so quite frankly I despised him... but oh well!!
ILoveToSing2010

Eponine93 wrote:
I think it's a much interesting story when people in a show who's characters are not in love end up getting together.

For example, our Narrator in Into the Woods ended up going out with Florinda... It was the Jr. version, but still that's definitely not a couple Sondheim would write in.


HAHA yeah like are Maurice is going out with one of the Silly Girls In Beauty and the Beast, its pretty funny.

Here are the some of the Couples in the Play

Lefou and Napkin (they just started going out during to show)



Maurice and Silly Girl (they been going out for a Year)


Belle and Villager (they been going out for a Year) note- the belles are double casted, the other belle is going out with the beast


I don't have a picture of the beast and Belle, in coustume so.... but yeah, you know its high school of chorse your gonna have some couples hehe
NoOneMournsTheWicked

While we're all posting pictures (and since I'm super bored)



Tony and Maria, at rehearsal. By the time the show opens, we'll have been together 9 months.
audreydarling

I had a thing with the guy who played my son in a Play Called reindeer soup..it was funnt because I had to kiss him on the cheek once and we had to cut it because Iwas treating him like my boyfriend...he also gave me a hickey (whic h was funny because he had previously played kenickie) and one of the girls ended up noticing...it was really funny though...now we're over but we actually might play opposite eachother and codirect The Last Five Years (the mother of all stage couples) which will be awkward but amazing considering our relationship and how it ended.
metaphor17

NoOneMournsTheWicked wrote:
While we're all posting pictures (and since I'm super bored)



Tony and Maria, at rehearsal. By the time the show opens, we'll have been together 9 months.


This is supercute.
Really.
Very Happy
Future_Broadway_Star

I've never technically fallen for MY leading guy... but when I was in chorus for Call Me Madam, I was in love with the guy who played Kenneth (we're just friends right now... *sigh*), but then he started dating one of my best friends, so I had to back off.... however, he's fair game now... maybe I should call him...

Also, in my first musical I played Daisy Lou Bowman, who was chasing after Rip Page and Monty Missouri. I had a huge crush on Monty (who turned out to be gay Sad ...) and the guy who played Rip had )and still does, sadly) a crush on me... That was 6 years ago, and today Monty is in college and "Rip" is my new "Charlie Brown" lol.

I love off-stage romances, although at my school they end badly or one lead is pining for the other... *sigh* drama should be reserved for the stage and the stage alone...

Btw, Sunrae, I love your "It is a strange thing about the theatre. I know they usually call dancers gypsies...but really that is what we all are! We're all theatre gypsies traveling from one "family" to the next "family" making best friends everywhere we go but not always keeping in contact with the people we become so close to!" Can I quote you on that?
lola

Are there any shows where people don't hook up? You keep thinking that the older you get, this sort of thing will calm down. I think it just gets worse. Now we have episodes like the leading man's wife storming into rehersal to scream at the chorus girl he is having an affair with. . . Shocked
broadwayxdoll

in the younger groups show we did a few scenes from Family Album and i played that mom cause none of the little kids looked old enough and another older kid played my husband and hes a cutie <3
audreydarling

lola wrote:
Are there any shows where people don't hook up? You keep thinking that the older you get, this sort of thing will calm down. I think it just gets worse. Now we have episodes like the leading man's wife storming into rehersal to scream at the chorus girl he is having an affair with. . . Shocked


sadly that sort of thing does not just happen in theatre Sad but you're right the older you get the more complicated things are
Melindaisy

yep... I fell for mine..."The Man Who Came To Dinner"...he was Bert, I was Maggie. Our first musical as a couple was "The Fantastics"... he was Matt, I was Luisa....
We've played opposite each other lots since then (This is community theater) and it's alway fun (of course, there was the time we did "Oliver" and he killed me...)
We've been married 13 years now.
Very Happy
Cake_in_Song

I've always had this theory that some people just don't know how to handle the emotions of playing lovers on stage without making it a real life thing. See, if the directors done a good job of casting, and the actors are really caught up in the moment, there should be sparks on stage. But the problem is, people sometimes think the sparks are real. That's not to say that everybody who hooks up during a sbow is mistaken, since there are some people who meet long term partners in theatre, but I think it accounts for the trend we see, especially in young people, of hooking up during a show. It's the same in Hollywood, where young stars seem incapable of doing a movie or TV series together without a short lived romance or marriage. Really, there is a difference between actor and character!
Salome

cake..do you have IM?
Richytheactor

lol

****Walks Away**** Embarassed
Cake_in_Song

Salome wrote:
cake..do you have IM?


Nah...I have MSN, but not AIM, if that's the question.
giggles24

I've dated one and he turned out to be a huge scumbag.
Richytheactor

my opinion

Perrsonaly i think it's a blessing if the leading man/lady fall in love, date or whatever, seeing is there is less "awkwardness" in the performance.
i also think that theres more chemistry between the performers and that can only be a good thing!!!
Kaiana

Heehee. With character couples you wouldn't expect. In Summer Brave (the show my bf and I hooked up in) he played the nice young man who got dumped by his girlfriend and I played an old maid school teacher. I did get a few comments about our character's age difference, lol. We've been together for 3 months now.
ILoveToSing2010

I said earlier that our beast and belle were going out but they broke up today Sad

they were so cute together. Everyone thinks he broke up with her cause he is gay hahaha, but i don't know if its true.... maybe...
PappyCat

Re: my opinion

Richytheactor wrote:
Perrsonaly i think it's a blessing if the leading man/lady fall in love, date or whatever, seeing is there is less "awkwardness" in the performance.
i also think that theres more chemistry between the performers and that can only be a good thing!!!


I think good friendship can appear as Chemistry onstage too..Although it sometimes makes for NO chemistry.
Sweeney Hyde

I can't believe I forgot about this one...when I played Gilbert Blythe in Anne of Green Gables I fell for our Anne...she was a GREAT actress...she moved last year and has pretty much refused contact with any of us...man, I still miss her.
PappyCat

My love interest in a play once was a woman....Because I was playing a man. She was also one of my best friends so we joked for MONTHS (who am I kidding, it's been 2 years and we still joke about it) about our love scene which they "cut out." (It never existed.)

I got strep throat from my leading man recently.
choochoo

Fantasticks. My Matt didn't like me back.

Oh well. Embarassed

If he doesn't like you for who you are then he isn't worth it! hehe

And in another show I did I didn't like the guy I played opposite "in that way" for a long time until I had known him for a really long time and we were in two other shows together...and I just started to really like him because he was such a caring person...and then he didn't like me back either! I have bad luck with that sort of thing.

Although I did get one date out of a considerably older musician from another show I was in! Wink hotttie HAHAha
Glissando

I was majorly obsessed with this one guy during Camelot and Footloose (he was Sir Dinadan and Ren, I was Ensemble and Country Kicker/Ensemble). Five or six of us lower chorus members were in love with him and formed a fan club around him (the White Knight Club), but I was the most obsessed with him. I finally got over him before we opened Footloose, though.
EponineMNFF

When I was in Babes in Arms, the guy who played Val was extremely cute. I was only eleven (the youngest in the cast) and he was about seventeen, but that didn't stop me from having the hugest crush on him. Hehehe
BEaSTARandSINGlove

Ugh. I've never actually admitted this to anyone, but ummmmmmmmm let's just say I was completely head-over-heels for my Danny when I was Sandy.
Rebk424

When I was in Cinderella as Cinderella, I had the biggest crush on the guy who played the Paige (he's a fantastic actor). We actually ended up doing Cinderella again a few years later and I played a stepsister and he was the prince's best friend, but i had gotten over him by then. lol.

I also was one of the kids in Little Women who is like starving and i played one of the students in the second act (i was like 9 or so) and the guy who played Laurie was adorable. Of course, I think the 10 year or so age difference might have had something to do with it not working out Wink

I think as I've gotten older there have been less crushes. I'm pretty focused on playing my character and I dont want to let boys interfere. I can't say it never will though. I date more of the jock type anyway.

I did have a little crush on the guy who played the oldest son in The Curious Savage when I directed it. His girlfriend was the lead and i think she hated me. lol
elphclaudia

To tell the truth..... YEAH!

When I just did Fiddler, I fell in love with my Fyedka. Then I found out he has a boyfriend.

Oh well, NEXT!
PappyCat

elphclaudia wrote:
Then I found out he has a boyfriend.


If I had a dollar for everytime that happened...

...Well, I'd have like, 7 dollars.
nycbound

About 9 times out of 10, I end up dating someone that I've done a show with and most of the time, they are my love interest in the show.
Salome

several times. one incident of course got me beat up as many of you know.
Big_Dave

I was chino and liked maria but maria was actually goin out wit tony!!! lmao. but then tony and maria split up and then it wa chinos time to shine!!! wot a bloody role reversal eh!?!? lol. we dint shoot each otha but we fought!! lol. Laughing
ShadowInTheWings

I've decided I am totally giving up on actors in terms of anything serious. There's something about them that makes them more skilled at lying and better at playing games, and I've pretty much had enough of it.

Actors are just fine for a random hookup or a fun, carefree fling, but I've learned not to go looking for anything more seious with one.
BroadwayObssessed

That happened in Oliver! I pretty much fell in love with the kid who played Bill Sykes. The thing is, I thought he was atleast in 8th grade because he was like 5'7 and had a really deep voice, but it turns out he was a 6th grader...I'm in 8th grade and I found that out in front of my friend, I could tell she was laughing on the inside. Embarassed

I still like him alot though
Mr. Nice Guy

When I was Nanki Poo in "The Mikado" I had a thing with my Yum Yum. It was complicated by the fact that the other two of the three little maids had a crush on me...and were roommates. I've never felt so loved before. Nor have I EVER seen so much drama... It was fun with Yum Yum though.
candigirl1990

Yea, my ex was Ren and I was Ariel in Footloose. goooood times!
broadway_bound

sadly yeah i have it was in The Music Man I was Zaneeta and he was Tommy, he had an amazing voice, personality and was an awsome actor and was just so darn hott how could I not Very Happy

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Current roles- Seussical (Who, Circus MuGurkus, Hunch, Fish)

musicals only
Previous roles- The Jungle Book (Baby Monkey)
The Beauty and the Beast (feather duster)
The Wizard of Oz (Lacreecia the Witch)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Princess Starlight)
Peter Pan (Liza)
R&H's Cinderella (Rose the citizen)
The Secret Garden (chours)
The Sound of Music (Elsa Shrader)
Mamma Mia (Rosie) your Wicked (chours) with your Hairspray (chours)
The Music Man (Zaneeta Shinn)
High School Musical (Taylor McKessie)
Children of Eden (Aphra)
Set_Buildin_Dad

35 years ago, as a senior in high school. I played Cyrano, and she played Roxanne. Unfortunately she ran off with the choral music instructor and they got married. d'oh!
Kaaatrina

Hopefully no. I'm a skunk in Winnie the Pooh and there is a boy skunk who is supposedly my 'boyfriend' (we do these cuddly, corny scenes together Razz). I don't even talk to him. The only times I do is when we discuss the play and our parts (which is basically never).
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