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School Days- Broadway Stars Tell Us About Their Favorite High School Roles!
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Nov 1, 2022
They might be big time, Tony-winning, ovation-getting, Broadway superstars now, but all actors started somewhere. Before they were treading the boards of Broadway, they starred in their high school productions just like everybody else. Which roles from their youths inspired them to take theatre to the next level? We're finding out!
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I think my favorite part I played in high school
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Favorite role? Oh, gosh. I have to think about, oh, I know what it was. Oh, my goodness gracious
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I'm trying to remember if I even did a show in high school. I must have done. I think I played one of the plebs in Julia Caesar in high school
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My favorite role, I think, was my very first musical, and it was Hello Dolly at Forst Lake Senior High
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I think it was 1986, and I played Stanley. lose some weight, Stanley
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I played Nancy in Oliver, and I'm still, like, I'm starting a campaign
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Someone please put me in Oliver. Can someone do Oliver? I know it requires a lot of children, but, like, I'm up to the task
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She's here with a carriage with six white horses. My favorite role that I played in high school was charity, Hope Valentine and Sweet Charity
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It was just, like, the most fun you can have in one evening
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Probably the lion in the whiz. It was exciting to do because I don't think I'll
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we get to do that role anywhere else. No, he won't. I was the murderer in the mouse trap
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and I was on the stage one time. That was plenty for me. I'm really happy to be behind the scenes now where I belong
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I was so shy I didn talk to anybody I played Starveling in Midsummer Night Dream We did the visit Our last year we did the visit by Durenmont and I played the policeman
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It's one of my favorite experiences to this day at the High School of Performing Arts in 1982. I'm old
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I was Moonface Martin, and anything goes, and so is this guy. We have pictures. We have matching pictures with our little pre-sadventing
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Bobby, in Crazy for You. It was one of those roles that never left stage, And it was the first time that I felt like what it was like to be on stage for three hours
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It was awesome. My favorite role I played in high school was Jay Pierpont Finch in How to Succeed in Business
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There was one day when the big kids were coming to see the show, meaning like Brian Stokes, Mitchell, and Greg Barnes and Jamie Torsalini
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And I was so, so, so nervous that I sang most of Brotherhood of Man in the wrong key
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I'll admit there's one great club that all of us are in. BOM
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There is a brotherhood. I got to play Billy Bigelow in high school, which no 17-year-old should be doing, but it was
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really awesome, and I think that really Simmons and my love for doing this. The Porter, the Porter from Macbeth
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He's just, just fun. He's unlike any other character in the play
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Proctor in The Crucible. You know it Arthur Miller and it such a great role and my name what is my name In high school I did Susicol twice I played Gertrude the first time and Maisie the second time
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And I think that combination is really something for awkward 15-year-old Caitlin
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It's either between Patty Simcox and Greece or Lois Lane and Kiss Me Kate
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My favorite role that I played in high school was The Baker's Wife and Into the Woods. I didn't know that there was musical theater like that until a couple more advanced
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theater geeks in my high school introduced us all to that show
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My most favorite role that I played in high school was Charlie Brown
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because I played Charlie Brown, you're a good man, Charlie Brown. And that was actually the show that told me
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I think I want to do this musical theater thing for a living. Once I sang the kite song, I was like, we're done, this is it, yeah
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My favorite role was The Bird in Alice in Wonderland because it's the only role I played in high school
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I had one line. What was it? I don't remember. My favorite role in high school was Dolly Lee
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High School was Dolly Levi in the matchmaker, not Hello Dolly. I wish it was Hello Dolly, but it was the matchmaker, but I still loved it
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It's a fantastic play. I did this hokey show called Return to the Forbidden Planet
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Oh, my gosh. And I got to play Ariel, the robot, and I wore rollerblades the entire show
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Yes. Val McKellie in Chicago my senior year it was like brought down the house okay I can do it alone It was like the marriage of all the things I love the most
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Our drama teacher was fired halfway through my senior year. So I took the theater guild and we put on Ruthless the Musical and I played Sylvia St. Croix
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and it was the most shocking production my high school has ever seen. To this day
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Probably. My favorite role I played in high school was the only
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only role I played in high school because I didn't know about musicals until my friend asked me to audition for Brigadune
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She said it was a great way to meet guys. Did you? Yes
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My favorite role in high school was the second part I ever did in a musical. I played the MC and cabaret and that kind of changed everything for me
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That was where a little light bulb went off and I said, I think I might want to do this for a long time. How do I tell my parents
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I think it was probably Barnum. And I was way too young. I mean, I was 15 years old and playing, you know, Barnum
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And I, like Beth, I heard that it was a great way to meet guys
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Did you? I didn't do any shows in high school. So for all of you who are watching this, who didn't have a chance to do your high school show
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you can still have 35 years in show business
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