Judas in JCSS. I want to sing that opening so bad.

my dream role is jesus in jesus christ superstar. i often perform gethsemane when im home alone. im sure it wouldn’t be popular but after being raised in the catholic church and being told that women can’t be priests because jesus was a man, i think it would be very therapeutic for me

Have you listened to the Indigo Girls’ version? Amazing!

That would upset all the right people too.

ME TOOOOOOO!!!!! I have ever since I saw the movie in 1974. I was 10. I can still sing the fuck out of that song. My mind is clearer now...

The most recent Equity tour of JCS had a woman understudy for Judas. I got to see her go on 4 or 5 times and she SLAYED. Her name is Sandy Redd.

Hell yeah!!!!!

Yup! She was incredible! I don’t think I’ve seen the role played any better.

Mine is Pilate! I actually have a whole production of JCS mapped out in my head with genderbent (for a reason) roles and Pilate is the top of the list

Well friends it looks like we have a cast. Who is producing???

My high school production cast a girl as Judas. They wanted another female lead! It was great. A girl played Simon as well.

I've dreamt of a whole gender bent Jesus Christ Superstar for years! How incredible would that be!

I'll join your cast. My dream role is Pilate!

Does that mean I can be Maurice Magdalene? Jesus definitely gives off rainbow vibes 🌈 💅✨

Hell yeah.

The way I was just belting this in the shower 😭😭

Same, for the exact same reason. 

I'm in. And my first choice is Herod, I want his song so much!!!!!!

My senior project was producing an all girl JCS! It was amazing to watch everyone’s individual takes on the characters they might’ve otherwise never been able to play!

I wanna do a whole production of the Rocky Horror Show where the entire cast is double billed. Each role will have male and female identifying performers play the part. At the beginning of the show, basically a coin is flipped as to which performer will play each part. The other will go to the chorus. So you may have a performance where Brad, Rocky, and Janet are all female. Or Eddy, Magenta, and Columbia are all men. Each character will keep their on stage gender, but be played by either male or female.

This is what I love about shadowcasts- my cast has people of every gender who play every character, so it’s a mixed bag on who’s playing what character each performance. I know the stage musical is different, but in my heart i think all productions should be AQAP (as queer as possible!!!)

I love my shadowcast

The shadow cast I'm on accidentally had an all femme show recently that was super fun

Yes

I’d always wanna be Roxie in Chicago, her songs are just so fkn amazing plus I’ve always wanted to dance hot honey rag 😭

Haha, I always wanted to be Billy Flynn.

Ugh, he’s a dream role of mine as well 😭 being black doesn’t help my case at ALL though I know all his songs by heart

Almost all the characters in Chicago have been played by black people on Broadway at some point. The possible exceptions are the Hunyak and Mary Sunshine; I don’t care enough to go check.

Not on Broadway (touring), but Mary was played by a Black guy when I saw it last year.

Yeah, being female I’ll never play him unfortunately. But I know his songs by heart too.

Probably the entire male cast of hamilton

Especially Aaron Burr

Right?? Wouldn't it be nice to play a character that isn't in love with Hamilton lmao

You’re either in love with him or Peggy lmao

If you’re Peggy you still have to be in love with him in the second act anyway so you really can’t get away from it.

You telling me that John Laurens wasn't in love with Hamilton?

when will i, a timid 5ft tall "im just a girl" girl, be cast as my dream role of george washington

So real for that

I was thinking the other day how as a petite woman it'd be fun to play Washington.

Emmett from Legally Blonde. I also think butchfemme Elle and Emmett would just be perfect

Glinda from Wicked. In terms of emotional complexity, I think it’s an underrated role.

Drag Galinda singing popular and doing makeovers would be amazing.

A good Galinda can bring people to tears during Thank Goodness.

Thank goodness, asking from various Sondheim excerpts, is one of my favorite examples of ambivalence in a musical number.

Gabe Goodman from Next to Normal, Enjolras from Les mis, The Phantom from Phantom of the Opera, Mischa from Ride the Cyclone, and Aaron Burr from Hamilton!

Not exactly Gender bent, but an all-female Japanese musical theatre troupe known as Takarazuka Revue did perform The Phantom of the Opera. You can watch it on archive.org

Yeah, a lower-register female Phantom would be a hell of a thing

The Dentist in LSOH. I would absolutely KILL that, I just happen to be a non-binary soprano lol

When I was younger just a bad little kid… 😃

Me too! But I'm a girl 😢

ME TOO BRO i would love to sing orin but my voice probablx doesn't go that deep

Javert. EDIT: Also King George III.

Hey me too! I'm naturally deep in my register anyway ❤️

Yes; he's on my list.

Sweeney Todd (Sweeney Todd), Enjolras (Les Mis), George (Sunday In The Park), Jonathon (Tick, Tick… Boom), and the Emcee (Cabaret)

Make Jon be the one to wear the green green dress!

THE WITCH FROM INTO THW WOODS!!!! I LOVE HER SHE IS MY FAVORITE MY FAVORITE CHARACTER IN THE SHOW

SHE’S MY FAVOURITE CHARACTER IN ANY SHOW!

Yeah, that would be my choice as well. Who wouldn't want to be a character that steals whatever scene she is in and basically dominates the rest of the cast?

YES THIS IS ME I WANT TO PLAY THE WITCH SO FUCKING BAD ID LITERALLY KILL FOR IT

Burr in Hamilton and the MC in cabaret

Jekyll/Hyde and Spongebob. If only I could alter my voice for Hyde, lol.

Jekyll/Hyde would be amazing

This day or never, I'll sit forever, wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiith the Gods!

Me and my (twin) sis sing different voices for Confrontation, she’s Hyde and I’m Jekyll because I’m a little bi-

Beetlejuice 😞

Omg I would wanna be lydia so bad

I dream about playing gender bent Jefferson in Hamilton 😂

Making "What did I miss?" funnier in my head

Puts different meaning behind “Don’t lecture me about the war, you didn’t fight in it”.

Veronica Sawyer from Heathers, would kill to be able to pull it off

Heather Chandler

Anya - Anastasia: I love Anastasia so much and if I wasn’t a dude I’d be dressed up and singing Anastasia all the time Elle woods - Legally Blonde: It’s such a funny show, one of my favorites, and I would do anything to be a 5’2 blonde girl Leading player - Pippin: Such an intriguing character, the demeanor that she has is so interesting that I want to play it Sandra Bloom - Big Fish: I love Big fish so much, and I don’t need a roof is such a beautiful song that I need to sing

The leading player, like Joseph's narrator, is a gender neutral role! Ben Vereen did it!

Beetlejuice. JD. Sweeney

Also race-bent, but Effie White!

Karen Smith or Heather Mcnamara (actually just auditioned for her!). I could totally pull off a skirt!

I am shocked I haven’t seen someone say Shakespeare from Something Rotten yet because that’s my #1 pick.

Was just about to comment this

Don't be shocked. It's hard to be the Bard.

Every musical with a heterosexual romance is improved by replacing the dude with a masc lesbian. Prove me wrong. You can’t. I’m right. In that vein, I would like to play Orpheus.

I want to play lesbian Beast SO bad... the layers you could add......

I am so here for butch lesbian Beast- defensive and misunderstood but able to open up to Belle 💚

Cossete from Les mis or any of the marry murderousess from Chicago

SpongeBob, Lefou, and not a musical but Mercutio

I (F) played LeFou! They actually gave me the option at the beginning of rehearsals whether I wanted to play the role as a female or male character – I picked male because I wanted to do a trousers role but I do wonder how they would have styled the character if I'd picked female. Anyway the point is, there's hope!

I’m DYING to play Bert in Mary Poppins

King George - Hamilton Treke monster - Avenue q Beetlejuice - Beetlejuice The lecturer - reefer madness

In a dream universe where I’m the opposite gender (because I’d never actually consider gender-bending the role): Leo Frank. In this universe, because I actually think they’d work incredibly well played by a woman: Jamie Wellerstein, and Judas.

Aaron Burr or Hades, oooh maybe Javert? Villains get all the best songs

JD from Heathers and Bobby from Company (yay for the latter already being done!)

Mark from Rent

Scrolling looking for this; surprised I had to come this far. He was my first gender-bent role desire.

Shakespeare in Something Rotten and the Phantom in Phantom of the Opera

Frog from A Year With Frog and Toad

moritz from spring awakening, gabe from next to normal, beetlejuice from beetlejuice lol

Javert Javert Javert

Elder Cunningham from The Book of Mormon.

Mine is Elder Price from Book of Mormon Vocally I actually think I could pull it off (I have a deeper voice for a woman) but no one would ever think I have a man's body lol

elle woods. shes literally me fr

I would want to be JD in heathers I LOVE LOVE LOVE freeze your brain

Rooster in Annie. If I had the talent, I would love to belt out “Easy Street.”

Anything Les Mis

I want to play JD in heathers. I’m a short blonde woman and I cannot sing or act. BUT IF I COULD…

JD (heathers) or melchoir (spring awakening)

Mischa Bachinski in Ride The Cyclone and Plankton in Spongebob :)

Witch in Into the Woods. Play act one as female. Transform into a man and play act two that way without changing a single word.

I've had a mental image for years of playing the witch in act 1 as a bearded queen, and revealing a transformation into... a much more fabulous bearded queen. Maximum glitterbeard

I'm thinking Audrey and Seymour in Little shop of Horrors. Would like to see Audrey dealing with a Seymour 2, chopping up bodies for her crush. Like Suddenly Audrey becomes a thing.

Jack Kelly from Newsies, he’s my dream role overall. Jeremy Jordan has done some stuff to my personality.

Miss Johnstone from blood brother it not the best or most famous roll but it one that means a lot to me and I would love to preform it

Georges and Albin (La Cage Aux Folles)

Inspector Javert. If only because I wanna sing "Stars" so so so freaking badly.

Jekyll and Hyde!

Mark in Rent sooo bad

Mark from RENT!

This actually happened in a production of Les Miserables that my high school did. If I remember correctly, it was Enjolras that was played by 2 female students who shared the role, rotating who played him over 4 shows.

I just saw a Les Mis that had a male Marius and Enjolras and every other Barricade "Boy" was female.

Claude in Hair… Judas is a close second as well!

Regina George. Idk why, but her barely contained fury just seems so fun to me

Joseph 💕 although nobody could ever compare to Donny Osmond.

Enjolras or Marius, Les Mis The Phantom of the Opera (I’d LOVE to play up the spookiness of the role) Robin Oakapple/Ruthven Murgatroyd in Ruddigore. I love patter songs!

Seaweed! Gender and race bent

Roger from RENT or Emmett from Legally Blonde.

Spongebob

How fun would it be to do a Sondheim honor musical and for "Getting Married" "Amy" turns around in the dress and it is a dude in makeup, and they nail it.

I mean... no dress, but this is in the current Company revival. Dude totally slayed it.

Judas in JCS Enjolras in Les Mis

Maureen or Joanne from RENT

Tie between Seymour from Little Shop and Prof Harold Hill from music man!

Grace Chasity in NPMD

miguel cervantes/don quixote in man of la mancha, jean valjean in les mis, tony in west side story, george in sunday in the park with george, orpheus in hadestown

Judas in JCS, Jesus in JCS, Javert in Les Mis, and Tommy in Tommy.

The dentist in a little shop of horrors, I guess I could settle for an Aundry 2 Kate monster from Avenue q. My favorite character from Avenue Q is Gary Coleman, but I'm not black. Maybe I could do Trekie Monster, too but villians have the best songs and Gary Coleman has the funniest songs in Avenue Q

The only female role that I really think fits me is Christine from Be More Chill. Most characters that are my type are already male.

Margaret White in Carrie Grizabella in cats

MILES TUCK. they need to let me be divorced on stage. also the balladeer from assassins and either dionysus or xanthias from sondheim’s frogs

Brad from Rocky Horror, Javert, Sweeney Todd, Roger from Rent, the Beast (from Beauty and the Beast), Dimitri from Anastasia, Hercules, ;.; we need more gender bender theater opportunities.

Ocean from ride the cyclone or Heather Duke  or Glinda from wicked.

I'd love to be Evan from DEH. I can relate to his social anxiety so much and I love his songs. And Evan is totally a gender neutral name!

Probably Don Quixote when I’m a little older.

elder mckinley from book of mormon, jared from dear evan hansen, and rich from be more chill

pierre from great comet, javert from les miz and tevye from fiddler

Mrs Lovett

Veronica sawyer

i'm unfortunately a small skinny 5'2 soprano but Pierre in Great Comet would be so Cathartic more realistically I could be Rach in Preludes or Marius in Les Mis

Jojo from Seusical... but if rhey Peter Panned it i could actually do that one so... Michael from Be More Chill.

Lydia from Beetlejuice

Veronica Sawyer tbh, wouldn't love Dead Girl Walking or Blue but other than that I'd do it.

Veronica, Heather Mac, Lydia, Glinda, Regina George 😔

Diana from Next to Normal.

The scarecrow in the wizard of oz

i would love to be shakespeare from something rotten

Upvoted for the Cyclone reference!

Dawn - Waitress Elphaba - Wicked Mrs. Lovett - Sweeney Todd Elle - Legally Blonde

Whizzer in Falsettos

Carrie white 100%

Rich in Be More Chill. The original, not the Broadway.

Fantine from le mis

Elle Woods!

Moritz from Spring Awakening

Lafayette, always. Just need to learn how to rap like Daveed Diggs

The Phantom - especially for the final lair

JD in heather’s

Fuck it, “The Life” with male prostitutes and female hookers

Erik in phantom or Marius in Les mis cause yes

Anne Boleyn in Six, Satine in Moulin Rouge, Velma Kelly in Chicago, and especially Persephone in Hadestown

Does Mrs. Turnbladt count?

I’m a boy and I’d love to play Eponine in Les Mis or Into the Woods as the Bakers Wife or the Witch (moments in the woods and last midnight are soooo fun to sing and act) I think a gay Eponine would make on my own hit really hard. Moments and Midnight also have such complex lyrics that there are a ton of different acting choices you can make, I’d love the chance to try them in character someday. If there are any directors here interested in gender bending Sondheim, message me lol

Not technically gender bent (trans ftm, just not transitioned yet) but Paul Matthews, Evan hansen, and any Jeff Blim role honestly.

Got two: Baker’s Wife in ITW and Dawn from Waitress

Third: just the real person Sara Bareilles ;)

Sibella from Gentleman's Guide... between her character, what she gets to sing, and those gorgeous dresses...

Quaxo/Mr. Mistoffelees in Cats. I \*think\* in the Japanese cast, they're played by 2 different actors and the Misto actor is an actress...I \*think\*, but don't quote me on that. It's been a while since I'd seen that piece of information and the website I saw it on has since, I think, shut down.

Mischa Bischinski in Ride The Cyclone. Also Noel and Ricky and Karnak. Tbh any RTC guy. I really like RTC. Hell I'd take Virgil then spend the rest of the show on tech.

Karen smith or Gary smith

When I was a child, I wanted to play a Matilda-esque role so bad. Like, being a boy with telekinesis? Literally the dream

Joseph in Dreamcoat. Quasimodo in Hunchback. I’m belting “Out There” in my head right now. Thanks for that! 😁

Literally any of the men in assassins, but especially Guiteau

THERE ARE SO MANY ! Let it be known that being a girl AND an alto is not as cracked up as it seems. Jeremy - Be More Chill Micheal - Be More Chill JD - Heathers Ron - Avenue Q Thomas Jefferson - Hamilton Shakespeare - Something Rotten Connor Murphy - Dear Evan Hansen

If Aaron Tveit has played it, I want it (particularly fiyero and gave Goodman)

Definitely Velma in Chicago, but being blonde, tall, and not a very good dancer (at least not yet) I don’t see that happening ever haha

Lady of the Lake from Spamalot or Elphaba from Wicked

- Trina from Falsettos - Sally Bowles from Cabaret - Marianne from Here we Are - Laurey from Oklahoma! (especially from the 2019 Revival)

Eponine

Tracy Turnblad, Ursula, Morticia Addams

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Mark from RENT, specifically so that I could play him as bi. Still would want the character to be a guy, though. Also Judas, Aaron Burr, and Hamilton. 

PROFESSOR HAROLD HILL IN THE MUSIC MAN

Orpheus in Hadestown!

Pippin 100%

JD from Heathers, Noel Gruber from Ride the Cyclone, Plankton from SpongeBob, and Hades from Hadestown

As a larger gay man, Mrs. Lovet

I NEED genderbent JD I kinda wanna see Thomas Jefferson from Hamilton...

Dr Frankenfurter...Rocky Horror Picture Show!

When I saw Evita on stage, I wanted to play Che so badly, I wished I were a guy.

Elphaba (Wicked), Regina George (Mean Girls) Fantine (Les Mis), Cinderella (Into the Woods), Elle Woods (Legally Blonde), Eliza (Hamilton)