hi i'm kristen chenoweth and this is the late show's dream roll goals
my dream role it's really hard to explain there's no water in that i would say
since we're switching things up gladly
stranger if you don't know that song it's from the musical cabaret by kander neb
and the person i want to play is usually played by a man i say why not let it be
a woman and why not me as the emcee throwing it out there the opening number of wilcombe
is so memorable for the emcee but also money money money i mean oh two ladies
i do sick cooking and i'm exhibit and it's a great number as well um if you know music theater you
would know that song but of course uh veal common is the big hit the emcee let me tell you about the
master of ceremonies that's what mc stands for he's very um relaxed he's uh not afraid to show
anything or she notice how i say she but the mc's job is to stand there and basically be
the audience to commentate to indicate see that you see that is it wrong or right so the mce in
my opinion acts as the audience plus it would be fun to go out and interact with audience members
that would be really really really really really appropriate the first time i saw cabaret i was in
oklahoma watching the movie uh starring joel gray and liza minnelli because we could never afford
to come to new york and see a show so luckily they made a movie what originally drew me to the role
was joel gray's performance academy award-winning performance years later i would of course do
wicked with him as the wizard that was pretty cool moment i love full circle moments but then getting
to see it live with alan [ __ ] one of the best live performers alive today in my opinion and i
left there we had no we had known each other but i left there thinking i have to be with him he's
like my person my brother and it was a performance of a lifetime that he gave which is also another
reason why a woman should do it because i would be very nervous for a man to step in that role now
you know it would be very freeing john kander and if i may i really do like to interact with
the crowd and i haven't been able to do that for two years that would be a challenge and fun to
also play and make it make the show will always be different every night because the audience
is different every night so that's a big draw for someone like me that really really craves
an audience which is why i'm in therapy my ideal sally bowles would be ariana dubose and it's not
just because she's going to probably win the oscar for west side story i told her we were
doing schmincke dune together in canada and i said you've got to play sally you've just got to play
sally goals it's it's a great role there's lots of great songs from for uh sally bowles ariana devos
um maybe this time i'll be lucky and ironically i would i don't know her well but i would love
to see someone like beanie feldstein in the role as well i would love an all-female cast as well
sorry man i don't i love men don't get me wrong or those who identify as such
i love but i just think it would be cool if there was a biopic about dolly pardon and i'm not cast
i'm willing to go under the knife okay i'm lacking a couple things and i've got they're there they're
just hidden she calls hers shock and awe i call mine dumb and dumber but i would love to um and
she has said it publicly too and so but the only thing the only way i would be able to feel right
about doing her is if she wrote it herself because it would be from her heart and her authentic self
so dolly hurry up girl and write the show i've been so fortunate to have been some great in some
great tv shows and my pick for a show that i have done on television to make it on broadway pushing
daisies the musical well schmingadoon even was a love letter to broadway in my opinion i loved
west wing i don't i think the dialogue of the of the west wing is music so i probably wouldn't put
it in a broadway musical i love gcb bobby harling nobody writes style everybody has their own voice
but the show that i really see as a musical is because brian fuller said it set pushing
daisies the tv show pushing daisy in a phantasmagorical place and that is the key
to making a beautiful beautiful uh scenic design costume design that's my opinion simmer on that
well that's it i'm kristen chenoweth thanks for watching dream roll goals what are yours