[kakoforever]

Has anyone found that they've forever wanted to play a character, and then they finally get the opportunity, and it gets complicated?

I'm figuring that out right now. I'm Sally in YAGMCB. The character's quirkiness and dialogue and music fits perfectly with what I do everyday in real life. I'm just trying not to let my personality influence the role too much. The character is 5 years old, after all.

It just feels surreal actually getting to sing "my new philosophy" in the context of the show. Sally has been on my list of roles to play since I first listened to the cast recording as a kid. And now that I get to do it, it's eerie, like dejavu, that I'M the one playing the part.

Anybody been through the same thing?

[Kiwi]

Not quite me dream role, but since I found out about Into the Woods for next school year, I've been listening to it and thinking about what it would be like to play Cinderella, but always kept it in my mind that I didn't really have the role and probably wouldn't get it, especially as a junior. Now that I have the role and am reading the script and listening to the music it's a bit unreal to think that I will be playing the role, particularly because we aren't starting rehearsals until school starts again.

[musictheatre00]

The closest I've gotten to playing a dream role was playing Frederick in The pirates of Penzance,except it wasn't as much of a dream role as the ones I have now,like I knew about the show after I researched it to get ready for an audition and was hoping for frederick,but now I have this list of roles that I really want to play that just keep growing that i just dream of playing all the time, I really wish that could happen to me.

[NoOneMournsTheWicked]

'West Side Story' has been my all-time favourite musical since about 7th grade, and I fought and clawed and begged my way into playing Maria my senior year of high school (not that I didn't deserve it- I knew I was the most qualified).

It was so hard after years of watching Natalie Wood (my absolute idol) play the role, to really make it my own and not just mimic her. I still, to this day, am not satisfied with the job I did, but I have to live with it.

Now my dream is to play it on Broadway in the new revival...with Ben Barnes as my Tony.

[Mungojerrie_rt]

My dream would be to get into the world tour as Mungojerrie. Ain't gonna happen though.

[sopranodespair]

[Amber]

It has been my dream since I was seven or eight years old to play The Witch in Into The Woods. I recorded myself on a little crappy old Talkboy singing her songs (I've found them recently, they're really worth destroying...). Everything. I LOVED the role so much, and then I auditioned for a local production of Into The Woods last September, and I was cast as the Witch. It was so emotionally taxing. I had built the role up as to how I was going to play her, what I would feel, how I would sing...Everything changed once I got into rehearsal. So, of course it was complicated. I put so much of myself into learning her, and being her, alive onstage. I was originally double-cast, so only had a certain amount of performances. That was tough enough. Then, the other girl in the role decided to start drama and stage her "quitting" the part. It was not that far from when the show went up, so it was all on my shoulders. I know that at the beginning of the rehearsal process, "Last Midnight" didn't affect me that much- I had sang it outside of the context of the show, but never got to the deeper meaning behind it (for me, anyway). By the end of the run, that song left me drained every night, in addition to "Lament" leaving me in tears. So, I was incredibly blessed to have played that role. I learned so much about collaboration with other actors (after all, ITW is a very "ensemble" show, even if the Witch acts distant from the others), I learned more about tapping into emotion as an actor, and I learned how flipping challenging that role is. It was so much harder than I expected it to be, but it was so worth it. She's still on my list of dream roles, because I want to play her when I've had more life experience and could probably bring more to her. But it was the most surreal experience I've had onstage, EVER.

[idTAPthat89]

I have dreamed of playing Nancy in Oliver! ever since I was a little girl. Oliver! was the first stage musical I ever saw and the woman who played Nancy was incredible. I sang "As Long As He Needs Me" at a few of my recent auditions, and I always get so into it! Haha