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== [[Film]] ==
* Ron Holgate as Richard Henry Lee in ''[[Seventeen Seventy Six1776]]'', who carries some great big wonderful slabs of [[Large Ham|roast pork]] while he's singing "The Lees of Old Virginia."
* Eddie the (Ex-)Delivery Boy from ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]''. He shows up, sings one of the most memorable songs in the movie, and is promptly murdered with a pickaxe. He has one later song (titled "Eddie", in fact), but this verse is a voiceover intended to represent other characters reading a letter he wrote.
* Harold the Juicyfruit/Undead leads the most instantly memorable song (and scene) in ''[[Phantom of the Paradise]]'' ("Somebody Super Like You"), but elsewhere in the film he's only seen a handful of times and isn't even recognizable without his heavy goth makeup.
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* King Gator, who does the [[Trope Namer|so-called]] [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]] in ''[[All Dogs Go to Heaven]]''.
* In ''The Rundown'' Ewen Bremen got his own major song that began the film's [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] when he was playing his bagpipes towards the end.
* Afterglow from ''[[Bran Nue Dae (Theatre)|Bran Nue Dae]]'', sung by the resident hippy of the film, Annie.
* [[Phantom of the Paradise]]: The Juicy Fruits/ Beach Bums/ Undeads are rarely on screen, and only one of them has a speaking part, but they sing three of the major songs, "Goodbye, Eddie. Goodbye", "Upholstery" and "Somebody Super Like You", which was released as a single.
* The guy in [[Singin' in Thethe Rain]] who sings "Beautiful Girls" isn't even credited.
** His name is Jimmy Thompson, by the way.
** In the same movie, Cyd Charise is a minor character with a major dance number.
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* The Foreign Woman, from Gian-Carlo Menotti's ''The Consul''. To be fair, she is onstage for more than the one aria she sings, but that aria is her only real point of significance.
* The Steersman from Wagner's "The Flying Dutchman" might qualify.
* Nimue, from ''[[Camelot (Theatretheatre)|Camelot]]'', who sings "Follow Me."
* Steve, from ''[[Paint Your Wagon (Theatretheatre)|Paint Your Wagon]]'', who sings "They Call The Wind Maria."
* The Young Confederate Soldier from ''Parade''.
* The girl who sings "Somewhere" in ''[[West Side Story]]''.
* Gigi from ''[[Miss Saigon]]''.
* The Street Singer from ''[[The Threepenny Opera (Theatre)|The Threepenny Opera]]'', who sings "Mack the Knife."
* The Proprietor from ''[[Assassins (Theatretheatre)|Assassins]]''. He sings "Everybody's Got the Right" at the beginning of the show. Though he does show up at various points, as a background character, an announcer, or even the President of the United States. And in some productions, he does sing part of "Another National Anthem."
* Parpignol from ''[[La Boheme]]'', who sings about two lines.
* The lover from ''[[Evita]]'', who sings "Another Suitcase in Another Hall" and is quickly dismissed. In the film version, Evita herself sings it because, y'know... [[Madonna]].
* Pirelli in ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Theatretheatre)|Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]''.
* ''[[Kiss Me Kate]]'': [[Those Two Bad Guys]] who sing "Brush Up Your Shakespeare."
* ''[[Catch Me If You Can]]'': "Fly, Fly Away", sung by Brenda Strong, Frank Abagnale Jr's love interest. The fact that this is just a major song [[Up to Eleven|is the understatement of the year]], because this song is [[Epic Song|pretty much the hit of the show.]]
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== Music ==
* ''[[Jeff WaynesWayne's Musical Version of theThe War of Thethe Worlds|The War of The Worlds]]'' gives the epic duet "The Spirit Of Man" to the minor but [[Large Ham|hammy]] Parson Nathaniel and his even more minor wife Beth.
 
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