What operas/musicals/light opera/chorale/play with people singing have you been in?
I have almost too many to list, but here's off the top of my head, in no particular order:
(Some of these roles are technically male; that is, the character is male but the part is a mezzo soprano or alto part, and usually sung by a woman. And on the musicals, there's a few where the director deliberately switched up some of the roles, for the fun of it.)
Operas:
Hansel and Gretel (Sandman and chorus)
Orfeo ed Euridice - Gluck version (chorus)
Die Fledermaus (Prince Orlofsky)
Aida (chorus and dancing girl)
Tosca (chorus)
Amahl and the Night Visitors (cast as a villager in the chorus, but ended up covering King Kaspar when he was sick. Yeah, it's a tenor role, and yeah, I had to play with octaves and stuff. Great good fun!)
Musicals:
Phantom (a non sacked chorus member ;) )
Les Miz (chorus member -whore, villager, widow of the barricade, dancer at the wedding- but later upgraded to Eponine. And for the Halloween performance where roles were swapped Jean Valjean. I wanted to be Javert, darnit!)
Beauty and the Beast (I was in this one twice, once was one of the three silly girls in Gaston and a chorus member, but then I hit paydirt! I was Lumière!)
Chess (Florence)
Kiss Me Kate! (chorus)
Aladdin (Soldier)
Godspell (Mary Magdelen)
Spamalot! (It's traditional for people to play multiple roles in this one. In one show, I was a Laker Girl, Knight who says "Ni!", Sir-Not-Quite-Appearing-in-This-Show and the French Taunter's Best Friend. Since I was also the Lady of the Lake's understudy, I sang her for two matinées and a night performance. This resulted in a hysterical round of musical characters to cover the four people I usually played. Again, it was Great Good Fun!)
Okay! Your turn now! Who were you in what show?
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