Loads and Loads of Roles: Difference between revisions

* ''I Am My Own Wife'' is a one-man play with the sole actor playing more than forty different roles. However, many of them have only a few lines, and there are no costume changes—all of them are performed in the main character's (Charlotte von Mahlsdorf) black dress and pearls.

* At one point, a production of ''[[The Importance of Being Earnest]]'' was staged with two actors. In the final scenes, they resorted to wearing both dresses and suits while holding umbrellas: they'd open the umbrellas to block the suits when playing women, and close them again when playing men.

* The Broadway musical ''[[The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee]]'' has only nine actors in its entirety. The nine actors each have a main role, and double for 13 others. Often, the actors assume their other roles by unzipping vests, moving their hair, or merely changing their voices.

* ''[[The Mystery of Irma Vep]]'' (not to be confused with the film ''[[Irma Vep]]''): two actors (who are contractually obligated to be the same sex to insure that there ''will be crossdressing''), 8 characters, 60 quick costume changes ''each'' in the course of a show that only runs 100 minutes. Anyone who has worked on this show will freely admit that the dressers for the actors are as vital to success as the actors themselves.

** [[Noah Antwiler]]/[[The Spoony Experiment|Spoony]] plays *inhales* Dr. Insano, Chef Ramsay, [[Final Fantasy VIII|Squall Leonhart]], [[Fu Manchu]], Spencer D. Bum, the [[Ultimate Warrior|Ultimate Spoony]], [[Pirates of the Caribbean|Cap'n Smiling Jack D'Arcy]], the [[Atmosfear|Gate Cleaner]], [[Hulk Hogan|Hulk Spogan]], [[Battlefield Earth|Terl]], "Spoonette", Spoontock! of the [[Star Trek|Klingon Empire]], [[Ultima|Chuckles the Fucking Jester]], [[Final Fantasy X|Tidus]], and [[Ultima|The Goddamn Avatar]].

*** The three cross-over [[Warrior (Comic Book)|Warrior]] reviews between [[Atop the Fourth Wall]] and [[The Spoony Experiment]] all involve shifts between various versions of Linkara and Spoony for most scene shifts in the film footage. ''Some'' of those alternate versions are played by other actors. Many aren't.

** [[The Chestnut Hill Improv Group]] is only three people, two of whom do a lot of voices between them.