Jordan
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Worst 'made up' part you ever played?My old theatre director ran a childrens/youth theatre so naturally for 'bums on seats' she used to 'create' parts so all the kids mums and dads would come to see Little Johnny being '5th tree from the left'.
So, when we did Into The Woods many years ago, being an adult (therefore too old to be a 'woodlands creature' and get to wear the cutest frog costume in the world) and not getting 'cast' even as Cinderella's Father or the Prince's butler bloke (I can't think what he is) I was a 'Mysterious Woods-person' which called for dressing up in brown clothes, wearing vine-type things wrapped around us and during every part of the show where they sing 'Into The Woods' or during the First/Second/Last Midnights we peered out between the trees and sang along.
So, come on, what's the worst 'spear carrier' you ever performed?
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metaphor17
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I don't believe I've ever played a "spear-carrier"  but I DID see a really terrible production of Cinderella in which the director cast seven VERY small children as EVIL-VIKING-ELF-SPIES.
I'm not even kidding you. That's what they were billed as in the program.
anyway, all they did was follow the Prince around and wear those funny hats with horns. it was absolutely ridiculous. and they were all about seven years old.
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Robinflamingo
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Here I am being an American again...but what's amdram? I googled it and got the Amateur Drama group in England - is that it?
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Luc
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Well right now I'm Guard 2 in Aladdin... I haven't seen the script yet, so I don't know if I'm an add-on or not.
Although when I was in the Sound of Music, my parts were (kinda) made up. I was the understudy for Kurt. The director knew that I lived an hour and a half away from the theatre, so if the boy got sick and I was called, I wouldn't be able to make it until probably around... curtain. So, he added me in as a street boy in "Confidence" (which he also added in ) and I was an Altar Boy at the wedding (although I have seen pictures of one of the professional productions using Altar Boys, so I'm not sure about that one). Also, the von Trapp kids could never get their harmonies straight, so I sang offstage to help them as "Ghost chorus."
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Glinda Upland
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There was somthing close to a guard 2 in my aladdin jr...
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I'm doing that Hansel and Gretal operetta right now, and none of the girls wanted to play angels, because all they do is dance, so she double cast alot of people (like me) as an angel.
But I have really never played a made up part really...
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My director usually makes up alot of parts, because she is a softie for sad little kids.
*~*~Helena~*~*
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The Drama Queen
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When I was in Annie Jr. I was cast as- Apple Seller/Radio Announcer/Cecile/Random chorus, so I actually ended up with a total of around 5 lines, by combining a bunch of little roles.
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jazzygirlsings
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I went to one rehearsal where I played a part of a chorus of sperm...of course, going into it, I didn't know that would be my part...When I found out, I almost fell out of my chair laughing!
I didn't leave at the first break because I wanted to see how hideously bad everything turned out! LMAO! And then I "forgot" my materials on a chair after the rehearsal...
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Sweeney Hyde
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I was Charlie/Peter?/2nd Helper in the Pajama Game. Not made up parts on their own...not put together very often though i bet. There was very little character behind it. Yet at the same time, I had a good many lines and a few little solos. It was actually really difficult to play because I basically had to give the characters their personality since they had not really been given one on page.
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DramaRobin2002
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Well, this isn't so much a made-up part as a usually inanimate object turned into a role. I did Joseph and the Amazing Technicolored Dreamcoat in high school and was cast as the front half of the hairy Ismaelites' camel. Our director decided that worked better than building some kind of camel that they could wheel across stage.
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InaraSanguine
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Okay, I don't think I've ever actually played one of these made up roles...but what bothers me is when you're out of children's theatre and the director deems it necessary to give everyone in the chorus a "name" in the program, even though they don't speak or do anything that might make them stand out in the audiences minds...and then all the names end up having a stupid Y or an IE sound at the end like: Joanie, Marty, Jimmy and Bobby. Seriously.
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Robinflamingo
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While I've never played a made up role, I've made them up before as a director of children's theatre. What I've tried to do is give the roles some reality by creating relationship and names - for instance, the girls and boys in Little Mary Sunshine (young ladies and forest rangers) are easy enough to create names and personalities for - and then as an acting exercise, have the actors create subtext for them, and it works out rather well.
In Brigadoon, I dressed the clans each in their own color and tartan, and as a result, there was a sense of belonging and development of "family", especially when they were introduced at the "weddin'".
But evil-spy-elves? Even I have never gone that far.
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metaphor17
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| Robinflamingo wrote: | While I've never played a made up role, I've made them up before as a director of children's theatre. What I've tried to do is give the roles some reality by creating relationship and names - for instance, the girls and boys in Little Mary Sunshine (young ladies and forest rangers) are easy enough to create names and personalities for - and then as an acting exercise, have the actors create subtext for them, and it works out rather well.
In Brigadoon, I dressed the clans each in their own color and tartan, and as a result, there was a sense of belonging and development of "family", especially when they were introduced at the "weddin'".
But evil-spy-elves? Even I have never gone that far. |
yeah. I've been in several productions (The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, The Odd Potato, etc.) where this has been done.
while my parts in these shows have always been "real", it was easy to see that letting the "made-up" or chorus actors give their characters backgrounds and families and such added to the believability of the production!
| InaraSanguine wrote: | | Okay, I don't think I've ever actually played one of these made up roles...but what bothers me is when you're out of children's theatre and the director deems it necessary to give everyone in the chorus a "name" in the program, even though they don't speak or do anything that might make them stand out in the audiences minds...and then all the names end up having a stupid Y or an IE sound at the end like: Joanie, Marty, Jimmy and Bobby. Seriously. |
in the process of creating backgrounds for chorus characters, a name is usually made up. while it is not always necessary to actually bill the chorus as their made up names in the program (especially with exceptionally large choruses) sometimes it makes sense.
for example, I did a small musical in which there was a chorus of perhaps ten "schoolchildren" who participated in maybe three scenes. the director had these kids make up a name and story for their respective characters, and it definitely helped them and the show!
since there were only ten of them, we did bill them in the program as their made-up names (i.e. Rosie, Rachel, Ariel). we also tried to add their characters' names to lines as much as possible in order for the audience to make the connection between the actors and their names.
for instance, the actress who played the teacher would have a line like "Sit down!" and she would change it to "Sit down, Rachel!" while looking at the child in question, who would then sit down.
this way, billing the children in the program as their "made-up" names didn't seem to pointless.
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InaraSanguine
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| metaphor17 wrote: | | InaraSanguine wrote: | | Okay, I don't think I've ever actually played one of these made up roles...but what bothers me is when you're out of children's theatre and the director deems it necessary to give everyone in the chorus a "name" in the program, even though they don't speak or do anything that might make them stand out in the audiences minds...and then all the names end up having a stupid Y or an IE sound at the end like: Joanie, Marty, Jimmy and Bobby. Seriously. |
in the process of creating backgrounds for chorus characters, a name is usually made up. while it is not always necessary to actually bill the chorus as their made up names in the program (especially with exceptionally large choruses) sometimes it makes sense.
for example, I did a small musical in which there was a chorus of perhaps ten "schoolchildren" who participated in maybe three scenes. the director had these kids make up a name and story for their respective characters, and it definitely helped them and the show!
since there were only ten of them, we did bill them in the program as their made-up names (i.e. Rosie, Rachel, Ariel). we also tried to add their characters' names to lines as much as possible in order for the audience to make the connection between the actors and their names.
for instance, the actress who played the teacher would have a line like "Sit down!" and she would change it to "Sit down, Rachel!" while looking at the child in question, who would then sit down.
this way, billing the children in the program as their "made-up" names didn't seem to pointless. |
Both times I have seen this done...it has been done in shows with HUUUUGE choruses...30-50 people. I completely understand the use of having a name and a background for your character, however small...but if the people don't even know their "character" had a name until the program came out and they were listed as Jodi? When I posted I was referring to the ridiculousness of listing 50 individual names in the program, not the reasoning behind it.
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opheliarose
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I was in a Shakespeare play where several typically female roles were made male. I was the maidservant to the lead (with about 10 lines actually written in the original script.) The director decided to make me a "secret agent", and thus I was still the maidservant and the evil guy's ho as the same character. That in and of itself wasn't so bad. But he wrote me several long monologues (pretending he was shakespeare) and also a long song to sing (not as a scene change or background, but actually stopping the action of the play to sing this made-up song!)
That show still gives me nightmares.
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Bianca.
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Fork A1. Beauty and the beast.
They wrote me in a tap solo.. to try and make up for the fact that they gave belle to the director's daughter.. when.. well.. I was OBV. better suited. But hey.. we were 12. What can you do?
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metaphor17
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| Syrso2yrsAgo wrote: |
Fork A1. Beauty and the beast.
They wrote me in a tap solo.. to try and make up for the fact that they gave belle to the director's daughter.. when.. well.. I was OBV. better suited. But hey.. we were 12. What can you do? |
you look like a Belle, from what I can tell in that picture.
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Bianca.
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| metaphor17 wrote: | | Syrso2yrsAgo wrote: |
Fork A1. Beauty and the beast.
They wrote me in a tap solo.. to try and make up for the fact that they gave belle to the director's daughter.. when.. well.. I was OBV. better suited. But hey.. we were 12. What can you do? |
you look like a Belle, from what I can tell in that picture. |
went on to play the part twice.
haha.
one of my favs.
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kakoforever
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| InaraSanguine wrote: | | and then all the names end up having a stupid Y or an IE sound at the end like: Joanie, Marty, Jimmy and Bobby. Seriously. |
I was in "Mr. Popper's Penguins" the musical as a kid. It was dreadful. The director was too soft-hearted to make cuts (even though it was a fairly competitive children's theatre), so she tripled all the roles and we had a cast of 70. 
It was a total zoo. Instead of Mr. Popper, Mrs. Popper, Billy Popper, and Janie Popper, we had Mr. Popper, Mrs. Popper, Billy, Bobby, Jeanie, Janie, and Junie. And all of them were children of kids on the Board that paid the director's salary. And none of them could act.
And there's an old lady, Mrs. Elsie or something, was split into seven roles. And we had an entire herd of baby penguins. And when the penguins audition for a variety show, there's supposed to be a bad Shirley Temple imitator act before them. That was changed into a 20 person chorus of little girls dressed as Shirley Temple yelling "The Good Ship Lollipop" at the top of their lungs.
Needless to say, we sold out every night.
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The Drama Queen
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| kakoforever wrote: |
I was in "Mr. Popper's Penguins" the musical as a kid. It was dreadful. The director was too soft-hearted to make cuts (even though it was a fairly competitive children's theatre), so she tripled all the roles and we had a cast of 70.
It was a total zoo. Instead of Mr. Popper, Mrs. Popper, Billy Popper, and Janie Popper, we had Mr. Popper, Mrs. Popper, Billy, Bobby, Jeanie, Janie, and Junie. And all of them were children of kids on the Board that paid the director's salary. And none of them could act.
And there's an old lady, Mrs. Elsie or something, was split into seven roles. And we had an entire herd of baby penguins. And when the penguins audition for a variety show, there's supposed to be a bad Shirley Temple imitator act before them. That was changed into a 20 person chorus of little girls dressed as Shirley Temple yelling "The Good Ship Lollipop" at the top of their lungs.
Needless to say, we sold out every night. |
That sounds like the play "Amazing Grace" I was in. There were originally only 6 kids + Grace who had lines and did all the scenes, but our director added in an "ensemble" of extra kids for the classroom scenes. When we got to the part where the kids are auditioning for Peter Pan, our director decided to have all 15 or so kids do individual auditions, basically giving everyone 30 sec. of fame. At the time it seemed like it was a really good idea and we were all excited about it, but now I can't imagine how bored the audience got. I, sang Tender Shepard since it was actually from Peter Pan, but other kids did things from shout-singing "Barbie Girl" to a messed up version of "My Country Tis of Thee" (land of the chillin pies...etc), to one girl doing back handsprings
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Bianca.
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| Quote: | | Needless to say, we sold out every night. |
*snorts*
Ohhh Childrens theatre.
I wish I didn't know EXACTLY what you were talking about.
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lostquiche
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In Grease, I was "Science Club".  I was pretty pissed until I found out that I was pretty much the ultimate nerd, and the President. I was like "oh, what the hell, I might as well milk it for all its worth..." So I did..up to the plastic snake i carried around my neck, to the horrible lime green eyeshadow and lipstick I wore at the dance. It ended up being really fun, and if i do say so myself, I quite stole the show! 
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katethegreat
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The made up part I try and put to 'Just Around the River Bend' on the 18th is going to be the worst made up part ever. Fact.
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aquamarine fishnets girl
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| InaraSanguine wrote: | | Okay, I don't think I've ever actually played one of these made up roles...but what bothers me is when you're out of children's theatre and the director deems it necessary to give everyone in the chorus a "name" in the program, even though they don't speak or do anything that might make them stand out in the audiences minds...and then all the names end up having a stupid Y or an IE sound at the end like: Joanie, Marty, Jimmy and Bobby. Seriously. |
See, I disagree. I think the fact of this, despite seeming ridiculous if there's a large cast, is really for the actors. Cause if you have a part like "tree" or "dancing fork" or whatever, it hardly feels like a part. The minute you have a name for yourself, you feel like an actual character.
Then again I could just be biased because I'm like the champ of unwritten/tiny parts with no names...
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Asha
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I'm doing Annie right now, and I'm playing Annie, double cast. On the nights that I'm not Annie, I'm a random made up orphan. I'm in like 3 scenes and I have no lines other than the ones the whole orphanage speaks. It's pretty special.
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Bianca.
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| aquamarine fishnets girl wrote: | | InaraSanguine wrote: | | Okay, I don't think I've ever actually played one of these made up roles...but what bothers me is when you're out of children's theatre and the director deems it necessary to give everyone in the chorus a "name" in the program, even though they don't speak or do anything that might make them stand out in the audiences minds...and then all the names end up having a stupid Y or an IE sound at the end like: Joanie, Marty, Jimmy and Bobby. Seriously. |
See, I disagree. I think the fact of this, despite seeming ridiculous if there's a large cast, is really for the actors. Cause if you have a part like "tree" or "dancing fork" or whatever, it hardly feels like a part. The minute you have a name for yourself, you feel like an actual character.
Then again I could just be biased because I'm like the champ of unwritten/tiny parts with no names... |
I'm in love with your Signature.
Both the Quote.. because that's SO me too..
and the LITP<333..
oh my.
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Roger's Chica
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| aquamarine fishnets girl wrote: |
See, I disagree. I think the fact of this, despite seeming ridiculous if there's a large cast, is really for the actors. Cause if you have a part like "tree" or "dancing fork" or whatever, it hardly feels like a part. The minute you have a name for yourself, you feel like an actual character.
Then again I could just be biased because I'm like the champ of unwritten/tiny parts with no names... |
My grade 12 year, I was in Footloose at my high school. I transferred there in grade 12 and had been forced to audition by video at the beginning of the summer, etc, so as I was an unknown quantity, I wasn't cast as Urleen (as I apparently should have been according to the director) but at a chorus character named "Katherine".
I ended up having a HUGE featured role in the show. (Mostly because I was the only semi-competent member of the cast... including most of the leads.) I had added lines, I carried some exposition when it didn't seem like things would be clear, I had solos in virtually every group number, I ended up having to do "Mama Says" because I had choreographed it and the cowboys kept getting sick and missing performances... HUGE-ass chorus role.
The wife of our musical director ended up sort of cobbling together a program from the roles she saw listed in the program. I was listed last in a column under teeny tiny heading that said "Chorus".
Words can not express how angry I was. And sometimes still am.
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Cake_in_Song
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The word is Steward, GayBoy.
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Jordan
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| Cake_in_Song wrote: | | The word is Steward, GayBoy. |
Three pages later, thanks!
Beats 'Mysterious Woods-person' any day.
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NoOneMournsTheWicked
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For my school's production of West Side Story, we had some excess girls...so now the Sharks have Juanita and Ana-Lucia while the Jets have Annie and Paula.
The girl that plays Juanita hates my guts and likes to say stuff about me, so in return my boyfriend does a great impression of her. He basically does the eye roll, the teeth suck and the snap and goes "I watched the movie four times and there ain't no Juanita."
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I Love Lockstock
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Sometimes made-up roles are fun! Someone earlier mentioned Brigadoon, and all the families...well, I was MacLeod, and my family and I (like, five of us) figured out names (I was Jo) and who was the father, mother, daughter, etc. It didn't help anything, didn't matter, but when we were ad-libbing things it was easier cause I could say "Mama, blah blah" and she would say "Not now, Jo." I don't know. It's fun.
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Sweeney Hyde
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| I Love Lockstock wrote: | | Sometimes made-up roles are fun! Someone earlier mentioned Brigadoon, and all the families...well, I was MacLeod, and my family and I (like, five of us) figured out names (I was Jo) and who was the father, mother, daughter, etc. It didn't help anything, didn't matter, but when we were ad-libbing things it was easier cause I could say "Mama, blah blah" and she would say "Not now, Jo." I don't know. It's fun. |
We did a simliar thing. I named all the people in my clan (Beaton), but we didn't improvise on stage with it. We had the best looking fake meat you cuold have imagined in MacConachy Square. I always bought a ham!
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I Love Lockstock
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I always bought green yarn to match the rest of my green-themed shawl/bonnet/dress. It was kind of obnoxious how every clan was a color, but it was cool. I love Brigadoon!
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metaphor17
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| I Love Lockstock wrote: | | I always bought green yarn to match the rest of my green-themed shawl/bonnet/dress. It was kind of obnoxious how every clan was a color, but it was cool. I love Brigadoon! |
Brigadoon rocks, it was one of the first musicals I ever saw
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Monsieur D'Arque
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In a production of HAiR I played Berger in last year, the cast was semi-perfect, and to solve the problem, two roles were "made up."
First, lacking a black man but wanting a Hud, we created a new character and gave him the name of Hud to fill the place. Hud was the ORIGINAL wigger, a white man who dressed in African ethnic clothes and unselfconsciously claimed to be black... and Chinese, and Native American, and whatever else he could think of. Our Claude and I, two resident parody artists, rewrote the lyrics to "Colored Spade" to satire white trash instead, and the song "Porch Honkey" brought down the house every night, leading our Hud to put it on his myspace and get many, many hits.
Second, our Claude was a brilliant actor, but could not sing at all. Meanwhile, I was playing Berger, and a longtime friend of mine was in Once On This Island with the same company, as Papa Ge. My director asked me if I'd be willing to switch roles with Papa Ge, as his prom conflicted with the OOTI showings. I said alright, but before he could switch me, he said, "I have a better idea." The next day, we discovered that a new lead characted had been added to HAiR: Keith.
Keith, the director decided, was a young Vietnam Vet with a nervous twitch and a chain-smoking habit. Keith took on many of the "one spoken line" ensemble characters and sang a lot of the random solos in the show. He even took on some of Claude's harder vocal stuff to save the graet actor from being exposed as a poor singer. He sang the "gaga at the go-go" verse of Hair, and was part of "Don't Put It Down," as well as singing a duet with Claude on "Where Do I Go."
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Matthew
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| Monsieur D'Arque wrote: | In a production of HAiR I played Berger in last year, the cast was semi-perfect, and to solve the problem, two roles were "made up."
First, lacking a black man but wanting a Hud, we created a new character and gave him the name of Hud to fill the place. Hud was the ORIGINAL wigger, a white man who dressed in African ethnic clothes and unselfconsciously claimed to be black... and Chinese, and Native American, and whatever else he could think of. Our Claude and I, two resident parody artists, rewrote the lyrics to "Colored Spade" to satire white trash instead, and the song "Porch Honkey" brought down the house every night, leading our Hud to put it on his myspace and get many, many hits.
Second, our Claude was a brilliant actor, but could not sing at all. Meanwhile, I was playing Berger, and a longtime friend of mine was in Once On This Island with the same company, as Papa Ge. My director asked me if I'd be willing to switch roles with Papa Ge, as his prom conflicted with the OOTI showings. I said alright, but before he could switch me, he said, "I have a better idea." The next day, we discovered that a new lead characted had been added to HAiR: Keith.
Keith, the director decided, was a young Vietnam Vet with a nervous twitch and a chain-smoking habit. Keith took on many of the "one spoken line" ensemble characters and sang a lot of the random solos in the show. He even took on some of Claude's harder vocal stuff to save the graet actor from being exposed as a poor singer. He sang the "gaga at the go-go" verse of Hair, and was part of "Don't Put It Down," as well as singing a duet with Claude on "Where Do I Go." |
Somehow I don't see adding such large characters to Hair being such a great idea.
They are quite concise.
But if they worked, great.
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Eponine93
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| Quote: | | Sometimes made-up roles are fun! |
Yes! I love making up families! When I was in Fiddler, we got split into family groups for Anatevka and Sabbath Prayer. Unfortunately, I was in the "single woman group" (me, my sister, and my closest friend in the show). We branched on to another "family", where everyone made up their own Yiddish names (Modest yahoo... he's a Jewish rapper, ect.) During Anatevka, my friend and her "husband" would mouth to each things like "what about the pet zebra? and the monkeys?" It was so hard to keep a straight face.
I was Lucinda/Prince's Entrouge in Into the Woods. In the scenes where I wasn't scoffing Cinderella or getting body parts chopped off, me, Florinda, Granny, the (female) steward and Cindy's mom in the tree pretty much chased the princes around the woods yelling "Will you marry me?" It was pretty funny because our princes were not the sort of guys who anyone in thier right mind would stalk. We had to pretend they were Adam Pascal.
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shadowdancer
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| Monsieur D'Arque wrote: | In a production of HAiR I played Berger in last year, the cast was semi-perfect, and to solve the problem, two roles were "made up."
First, lacking a black man but wanting a Hud, we created a new character and gave him the name of Hud to fill the place. Hud was the ORIGINAL wigger, a white man who dressed in African ethnic clothes and unselfconsciously claimed to be black... and Chinese, and Native American, and whatever else he could think of. Our Claude and I, two resident parody artists, rewrote the lyrics to "Colored Spade" to satire white trash instead, and the song "Porch Honkey" brought down the house every night, leading our Hud to put it on his myspace and get many, many hits.
Second, our Claude was a brilliant actor, but could not sing at all. Meanwhile, I was playing Berger, and a longtime friend of mine was in Once On This Island with the same company, as Papa Ge. My director asked me if I'd be willing to switch roles with Papa Ge, as his prom conflicted with the OOTI showings. I said alright, but before he could switch me, he said, "I have a better idea." The next day, we discovered that a new lead characted had been added to HAiR: Keith.
Keith, the director decided, was a young Vietnam Vet with a nervous twitch and a chain-smoking habit. Keith took on many of the "one spoken line" ensemble characters and sang a lot of the random solos in the show. He even took on some of Claude's harder vocal stuff to save the graet actor from being exposed as a poor singer. He sang the "gaga at the go-go" verse of Hair, and was part of "Don't Put It Down," as well as singing a duet with Claude on "Where Do I Go." |
WOW. Can we say illegal? I am sure it worked for your show and everyone loved it and all but....I just do not even know what to say. YOu rewrote a song from Hair. It is different if peoepl add and delete but to rewrite the words for an entire song just to fit YOUR show, I find this wrong and hope someone turns in your production.
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Theaterfan101
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Most of my plays end up having "made up characters" on thier own. For instance, when I was in The Music Man, my age group of rehersals ended up learing our songs and dances quickly and well, so our director added us in to Trouble, even tough it was supposed to be an adult number. He had some of the tall kids (like me) go joni the adults and come out earlier in the song. Well on of the adults grabbed me and another boy to become a family. We had a whole story on why we were walking down the street and stop to watch Harold. In the same show a friend and I were chosen to do a cross over between the train scene and Iwoa stubern. So for that show I had an older sister, a brother, and a best friend.
Twice when I did Joseph....I had special parts but I won't go into those because I was choosen at random for those. In the Sound of Music, our director thought it was unfair that their was 5 girls and 2 boys so he added a part for a boy, "Gunther" Gunther got Brigetta's lines in Doe Re Mi. Bassicly the Van Trapps ran throught town playing "airplane" while the giant enesemble of kids played various games (like London Bridgesl  ) and we stopped when Marai started talking about singing. Gunther would pull down on her dress and ask her what she ment when she said one word for every note, but used three for anything. He then told her his name and asked again. She said "sometimes we just do that," and pushed him off stage.
In Oliver! we had a ginormous (giaganic+enormous=ginormous) pickpocket/workhouse ensemble so around 15 of us were lead pickpockets. We beat up Oliver, reached for the 16 pence, picked Fagins Pocket in Pick a Pocket or Two and did the second Thieves Kitchen Scene. My Best Friend was playing Oliver so I enjoyed beating him up. Also in Peter Pan most everyone was and Extra Lead Lost Boy and got an "extra" scene. [/i]
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Jordan
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I'm loving this thread. Carry on.
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ShadowInTheWings
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| metaphor17 wrote: | | I Love Lockstock wrote: | | I always bought green yarn to match the rest of my green-themed shawl/bonnet/dress. It was kind of obnoxious how every clan was a color, but it was cool. I love Brigadoon! |
Brigadoon rocks, it was one of the first musicals I ever saw |
Brigadoon was the first musical I worked. Good times.
I've never played a "made up" role, having never played a role. But my place in the backstage scheme of things has usually been kinda "made up." I was a student volunteer with an interest in stage management until recently, and would often be doing the combined jobs of a second ASM and props person, with a little bit of wardrobe and sound thrown in there, and have been called "stage left" by cast members, cause that's where I like to work, and pretty much own it when I do work it.
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