[CherrySprkle3]

What was the best role you have ever played?
Mine was Mrs.Claus
But I will have to see how playing Tuptim will be like

[Salome]

Ive won the best actress awards for my perfomances in

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Maggie

Rocky Hoprror Show as Janet

and

Threepenny Opera as Jenny.

I also consider

Lady Macbeth

Florence in Chess

and

Vera in Ten Little Indians

to be major personal successes.

[frizzball724]

My absolute favorite was Carrie Pipperidge in Carousel with Helen in All's Well That Ends Well in a close second.

[what_the_heck013]

My favorite performance was as Benny Southstreet in Guys and Dolls, but I believe my best was as Ralph in A Christmas Story.

[MuSiCalTheaterLoveR]

I've had roles larger than this, but this was a lot of fun: Dodger in Oliver. Yep it was pretty sweet.

[Desperado]

I think my best performance would have to be in the direct to video release of A River Runs Through Her

[The Drama Queen]

Eudora Lindstrom in "Four Tickets to Christmas", our school Christmas show this year, I must say it was very fun to play the diva role.

[LaurelDP]

Miss Higa Jiga in The Teahouse of the August Moon. Strictly based on the language barrier.

Rose in The Wool Gatherer. Because of the difficulty of the character, and my first time really playing a non-comedic, non-character role.

[wicked_diva]

My favorite would have to be silly girl/napkin in BatB, or the Stepmother in ITW, but my biggest role is probably Berthe in Pippin... Though I don't know, would Aunt Em in the Wiz be the same size?

[Fogeyman]

My favorite has to be El Gallo in The Fantasticks, but my best role -- the one where I got to show the most range -- was Jake in Jake's Women.

[Jennyanydots]

My most challenging role was Val in A Chorus Line. No, she's not a meaty character, but the challenge was in making her one. I chose a completely different approach to her that pretty much everything I've ever heard about her, and it paid off.

My favorite would be Sarah Brown because it was great fun. I also got to show off some of my higher range to my school, which was also fun. I love soprano roles, I do. High notes are a blast, especially when you just sort of add them in....

[LoneWanderer]

Papa Ge in Once on this Island. I got a baby to cry on the first note of Forever Yours (MIiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine) cause the stage suddenly lit up and I was all in black so they couldnt see me before the lights came up and I was well...unique looking. All the gods looked like crack heads at carnival. I'll look for a pic sometime.

~The Lone Wanderer

[bradfacey]

[MuSiCalTheaterLoveR]

[MrsJamieWellerstein]

My personal best thus far: Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors. That was good.

[lakmé]

Baker's Wife in ITW, most definitely.

[NoOneMournsTheWicked]

I haven't played any leads in a musical yet, but I must say that I was amazing as Jean Maitland in 'Stage Door'.

[hynohtz]

"Eva" in Evita
Hands down.

-The most difficult and most rewarding role ever!

[Aphrodite]

Louise in Gypsy
Maria in WSS

[Amber]

Fastrada in Pippin, no doubt about it. Challenging because the character is so far from who I really am, but I got to freak out the audience with my onstage "son" on the last night in that we really showcased the implied incestuous relationship. Plus, getting to be alone onstage was something new, but not half as hard as I thought it would be.

I loved it.

[MaryMag]

I think my best role was actually my most recent, and it wasn't a terribly interesting role. It was Violet Peterson in 'It's a Wonderful Life.' But I think I'm growing as an actress constantly, so I think I did my best in my most recent production. I'm learning with every show!

[Caitlin (Pipes)]

If we're talking musical theatre, then it was Aldonza, hands down. I struggled with that role until the end, and it was the first role that I truly felt and understood my character so deeply. I expected myself to be a disappointment (everyone kept said I was coming across too soft as a character), and I remember crying during the opening night curtain call just because it was entirely unexpected. That performance in particular was my personal best, and it's going to be awhile before I top it.

I got a Best Actress nomination for Luisa in "The Fantasticks," and while it's a fabulous role, I'm still not as proud of it. Vocally, it was a bit tricky, but the role wasn't as emotionally taxing (yet fulfilling) as Aldonza.

[what_the_heck013]

[LaurelDP]

[LeVieDuPirate]

I think Charity has to be my biggest role yet, that show is like one big monologue o_O but I am also enjoying Somethings Afoot right now in which I am playing Hope ^_^ I get to be an over-the-top engenue which is always fun

[Imy]

The role I am most proud of is definitely Prior in Angels in America. I did drag, I was completely nude, I had sex on stage...so many risks involved in that role.

I'm also pretty proud of Seymour in Little Shop, though not as much as Prior.

[dramatic_mizfit]

I think playing "Moon" in The Real Inspector Hound has been my best role thus far. Though, playing "Mary Girard" in The Insanity of Mary Girard was a challenging role, and it was the most I'd ever had to work with. It was a great learning experience.

[phantomphan85]

Well, so far it's Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit, but I can't wait to play Sarah Brown in Guys and Dolls this summer. I think that'll be a fantastic experience.

[Mimi Marquez]

Anytime Annie in 42nd Street!!!! Soooooooo much fun and my first role with more than 3 lines, haha.

[BEaSTARandSINGlove]

i would def. have to say aggravain in OUAM, just because it's a great part, and it's the complete opposite of the type of roles i played before it (like Sandy in Grease) so it was a blast to play!

[vanillabean]

Miss Sherman in Fame. I played it like 3 years ago and I still have people coming up to me about it saying good things.

My favorite was Jan in Grease though, becuase I got to play opposite my leading man

[Starsweeper]

Belle in Beauty and the Beast. It was my first huge leading role and I was scared stiff that I wasn't going to do my best. I worked harder on that role than any other show. The hard work paid off and it was an unbelievable moment when I got a standing ovation when I came out for bows. That show was my personal best.

The other role that takes second place was playing Fantine in Les Miserables. Playing someone that tragic was a departure from the usual sweet, innocent soprano ingenue roles I usually get cast at. Singing I Dreamed a Dream was an almost magical moment for me and I found that I was successful at stretching what I was capable of as an actress.

[allieoop]

Jan in Grease. Definitely. Had the most fun with friends, became best friends with the girl who played Marty, and it was my first comedic role. My most beloved thing about theatre so far is making people laugh on stage. It's my anti-drug.

[Trevor]

Hmmm... probably Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

[Jordan]

When I played Javert and was understudy to Valjean and Gavroche in 2002 at the Palace Theatre. Spiffing good times, what!

[Beagle On Stage]

I hate to say it, but it was Nada in "The Gingerbread House..." It's too bad that such an awesome role is wasted in a throw-away children's show. I dominated the entire production, you have no idea. Not my favorite part I've had, but it's definitely my best performance ever.

[Da_Dark_Dude]

jean valjean in some random production of les mis in an all girl high school lol. good times

[pastryyy]

For straight theatre, La Poncia in The House of Bernarda Alba and Marceline in The Marriage of Figaro. But for musical theatre - perhaps not my best, but certainly the most fun was Grace Poole in Jane Eyre. I had a hump!

[christinadaae]

I've played Sally in Charlie Brown, but I don't think I was very good at that. I've watched tapes of the production and my acting could have been toned down a lot.

But when I was recently Rapunzel in Into the Woods I think I was so much better, and many people made comments that they saw what I could really do.

And I was nominated for a local community theater award for Best Upcoming Actress for Bet in Oliver. Have yet to hear if I've won or not.

[Aimee]

Wow, you have all done some great roles!!

My best was Nancy in Oliver because a) its a fantasic role and b) because it was an incredible summer in an incredible venue with an amazing [and huge] audience.

My second best fun role was Calamaity Jane, that's great fun.

[olly]

I loved recently playing Jack in The Importance of Being Earnest. Yet I have my hardest role facing me yet: Malvolio in Twelfth Night. Thought you mayn't think it a horrendously difficult part, you should see what I want to do with it.

[Alonza0]

Well, Young Cosette in Les Mis was pretty cool, but honestly I think the best part I played wasn't in an actual musical. It was for a dinner theatre, and we had a plot and songs and everything, but I wouldn't consider it a musical because the plot was seperate from the music. Anywho, I played lead beggar Luna Tick, who I think was the best part ever because she was so much fun. I got to be dirty, crazy, obnoxious, and I made over five American dollars in pennies thrown at me in one night alone. Ah, what fun...

[Matthew]

I loved being in the ensemble in The Spitfire Grill.
So fulfilling and my first College show.
And I met amazing people.

[Sweeney Hyde]

I liked like to say my best performance was as Harry Beaton in Brigadoon, however, I think I could do it a whole lot better now (it was my first musical). I had a lot of fun as Lt. Peter Wright in The Secret Garden even though I was in a tenor role and I'm a bari...I also think I did well in Cheaper By the Dozen as Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. (the oldest son) as well as Count Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing and as Gilbert Blythe in Anne of Green Gables.

[Roger's Chica]

At my university, I did a show called "Liquor Store Sobriety" as part of the student run theatre company. It was probably the worst written thing I've ever experienced. Ever. I cried after our second rehearsal. But... after working really really really hard, people were able to sit through the show. And actually sort of laugh.

So I'm proud of that.

Alternatively, I actually think my two best roles were in The Marriage of Figaro and Footloose. I was the QUEEN of the cameos/chorus in both of those shows and sometimes it can be a lot harder to do chorus well...

[Jordan]

[Aimee]

GB, I've never seen better though I admit the Gavroche costume didn't really do much for you.

[Jordan]

[Timmy_Wishes he was Quast]

Singin' In The Rain as Cosmo Brown was my best EVER in muscial theatre. And with such i retired. (it being my last lead role)

Although i simply loved playing the dead father ALBERT in Linda Eisenstiens play "Three The Hard Way" emotionally challenging. BUT very rewaring.

[I Love Lockstock]

My pro Little Red in Into the Woods.

And Hope in Urinetown.

My two favorite musicals ever, they were so rewarding, and I played them well.

[Amber]

Rose Alvarez. I really, really had a challenge with the role, it was the first "leading lady" role I've had, and I got to sing, act, AND dance. I really connected to the character and understood her, and that was the first time that happened as tangibly as it did then.

And I got recognition with it- autographs after the show, someone recognized me when I was out to dinner and then over a month later, a person recognized me at Chita Rivera's show's stage door, no less, when I was waiting there.

[I Love Lockstock]

[quote="misericordiae"]Rose Alvarez. I really, really had a challenge with the role, it was the first "leading lady" role I've had, and I got to sing, act, AND dance. I really connected to the character and understood her, and that was the first time that happened as tangibly as it did then.

And I got recognition with it- autographs after the show, someone recognized me when I was out to dinner and then over a month later, a person recognized me at Chita Rivera's show's stage door, no less, when I was waiting there.[/quote]

The first time I got recognized it was so cool! I had just got done with the opening show of a professional Fiddler on the Roof, and a few of us went out to dinner afterwards, and a whole group of people came over and told us how good it was. It was amazing.

[Salome]

hard to choose just one..but i'd say tha my top 5 roles have been..

Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Lady Macbeth in Macbeth

Jenny in Threepenny Opera

Florence in Chess

Bella in Lost in Yonkers


of course its subject to change.

[Kaiana]

^You already posted silly, lol.

My favorite in a non-musical is Kate Keller in Miracle Worker. I think it's an amazing experience to play a real person like that, and she was a wonderfully complex character. I think I really brought a lot to that role and helped people remember that Annie Sullivan wasn't the only woman in Helen Keller's life.

In a musical, I guess my best role was Ida in Honk Jr. I didn't really care for the show, but I made everyone cry in the scene where Ida thought her son was dead. That was fun.

[Buff Daddy]

My favourite was Perchik in "Fiddler on the Roof"

Buff

[Beagle On Stage]

[Beagle On Stage]

I'm amending my answer. As far as experiences, Matthias was the role that had the most stuff going on. Stage combat, flying, audience interaction, a mouth-full-of-food number, yadda yadda yadda. I've never been so exhausted by the end of a run, but I got quite a lot out of it.

[LaurelDP]

I posted on the first page, but since then:

Queen Aggravain in OUAM was a pretty big accomplishment for me.

Alonso in The Tempest... I felt that was a huge hurdle for me. Interpreting that character into a female really helped me become a more well rounded actress.

And, as of right now I'm playing Mrs. Meers in Thoroughly Modern Millie, and it's amazing. I know that it'll showcase me at my best as an actress.

[happyguava]

Maisie in "The Boy Friend" was definitely the most fun. Probably the role I've performed best in as well.

[Aimee]

[DaddyDiesel]

Nick Piazza in Fame was awesome but Im going to have to say Gaston in B&TB was the most fun. BUt right now the most challenging show I have been in is EVITA. Not saying Magaldi is an overly difficult part because he is not a far stretch from what I have done before. But production staff also has me as Perons assistant, Soldier, Descamisado, and Aristrocrat. So coming up with all those differant charactors so people dont Fully recognize me as magaldi everytime I am on stage has been a fun challenge.

[jazzygirlsings]

Eliza in MFL...HANDS DOWN!!!!

[Ulla Dance Again!]

Doc in WSS -- I had my own set.... [as well as getting to perform one of the saddest scenes in musical theatre].

People were talking about my performance weeks & months after the show ended!

[Jenko]

either Jekyll or Michael (Witches)

[Jordan]

[MaryMag]

I think my current role of Betty in Durang's "Betty's Summer Vacation" is my best. Yes, it doesn't even open for another week, but I think I'm really growing as an actress and that the work I'm doing now is far better than what I did in even the last show.

[norayouadora]

Biggest/favorite roles would have to be either Mrs. Harcourt in Anything Goes or Cookie in Rumors. Lol, yeah, my resume isn't all too impressive yet, but I'm getting there... Also, I'm sure that playing Golde in Fiddler on the Roof is going to be a very rewarding experience, but rehearsals don't start until next week, so I don't think that really counts yet. Lol.

[Marcellus]

Clemment Musgrove in The Robber Bridegroom.

[NoOneMournsTheWicked]

[norayouadora]

[HeroTheBishop]

The Emcee - Cabaret
Highlight of my life.