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== Actors ==
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* [[A Very Potter Musical]] contains copious amounts of ham. "Did somebody say Ron? / Draco?", Cho Chang gets a special intro dance, the first scene Voldemort gets {{spoiler|with a body}}, he gets a (literal) song and dance about it, Bellatrix spends her tenure running about, shouting, and getting wet over her dark lord, Umbridge needs to be seen to be believed, and Dumbledore's entrance is ridiculously long note on 'Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelcoooooooooome'.
** Snape's the reason they [[Chewing the Scenery|have such limited scenery]], though. Man walks on stage and everyone suddenly feels like they've nommed their way through a Costco-sized pack of bacon.
* Practically a requirement for anyone playing Richard Henry Lee in ''[[
* George Hearn, whose performance as Albin in ''La Cage aux Folles'' was parodied by ''Forbidden Broadway'':
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* Maureen in ''[[Rent]]''. Off stage character until "Over The Moon", she takes over the show during that number and much of Act 2
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* This is practically a ''requirement'' for the [[Leonard Bernstein]] operetta version of Voltaire's ''Candide''. Of special note for the level of salt-cured goodness, however, is Kristin Chenoweth's 2004 turn as Cunegonde, in which she was ''clearly'' having a grand old time. See an [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwzewHTcHewhere example].
* Big River,the musical of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The Duke and King...when done best.
* Basically every single last character in [[Little Shop of Horrors]] if the production's any good. It's quicker to list lines that ''aren't'' pure ham than that are, provided you can think of any.
* No matter how good the actors are in all the rest of the show, just try to find a production of ''[[Les Misérables (
** Even better, '''Enjolras'''. ''[[Epic Song|ONE MORE DAY BEFORE THE STORM!]]'' signals an escalation of ''One Day More'' to its theme of revolution.
* ''[[Wicked (
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* Arguably Ben Vereen in the finale of Pippin. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyXZXjzh2s0&feature=related Mole! She has a MOLE ON HER FACE! YOU WANT TO SPEND YOUR LIFE WITH A WOMAN WITH A MOLE ON HER FACE?!]
* From the British production of ''[[Mamma Mia!]]!'': "SHE'S STIIIILLLLLLL DONNA!"
* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGxryV6S2F4 Green Goblin] in ''[[
== Shakespearean Ham ==
* Falstaff in [[Shakespeare]]'s ''[[Henry IV]]'' duology. In ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'' he becomes the [[Butt Monkey]].
* If you perform ''[[A Midsummer
** Bottom may be the hammiest ham ever hammed. His lines are specifically written to encourage acting like this, including a bit where he [[Talking to Himself|tries to play both]] of the [[Show Within a Show]]'s [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]. He even claims that he wants a "part to tear a cat in, to make all split". That's Shakespearean for "I want to play a [[Large Ham]]."
* Don Armado in ''[[
== Stephen Sondham ==
* ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (
** The song ''A Little Priest", the Act I finale which is chock-full of ham, [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshades]] its own hamminess. The movie tried to do it without being hammy and thus demonstrates that [[Tropes Are Not Bad|ham is sometimes necessary]].
* Miles Gloriosus in ''A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum''. Actually, most of the main characters in this require some degree of ham.
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== Hamdrew Lloyd Weber ==
* Another female example: Carlotta in ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'' (and by extension, many of the actresses playing her).
* Lloyd Webber loves his large hams. Pharaoh from ''[[Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat]]'', The Rum Tum Tugger from CATS, and Herod from "[[Jesus Christ Superstar]]" (especially the 2000 version) are some of theater's best hams.
* In the London West End version of Cats, Old Deutromony and Bustopher Jones are played by '''[[Brian Blessed]]'''.
* Count Fosco of ''The Woman in White'', another [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]] musical. It's another [[Melodrama]] so everybody hams it up, but as the show's primary comic relief ''and'' a villain, he's a lot more fun than the other characters.
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== Non-Musical Ham ==
* The title character in ''[[
* Madame Rosepettle in ''Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You In The Closet And I'm Feelin' So Sad''. (Played by Hermione Gingold in one production.)
* John Barrymore's ghost in ''I Hate Hamlet'' and arguably the character of Dierdre as well.
* ''The Man Who Came to Dinner'' is another play populated almost entirely by hams, with Sheridan Whiteside as the king.
* ''Noises Off'' features ham within ham. The characters are the cast and crew of an over-the-top [[Farce]] and perform accordingly, but offstage they're only slightly more subdued.
* Walter in ''[[Don't Drink the Water]]''. Marion meanwhile is a unique character in she can be played as either a large ham or a [[Deadpan Snarker]].
* Most of the cast of cjaracters in ''[[Fools]]'', with special mention to Count Yousekevitch.
* Tito Merelli in ''Lend Me a Tenor'' is all about the operatic ham.
== Other performance forms ==
* For Murder on Center Stage...there's Stanley the Janitor. In his Shakespearean acting.
* The entire cast of any [[Gilbert and Sullivan]] operetta needs to be Large Hams. Even the chorus members.
** The works of [[Gilbert and Sullivan]] can basically be described as overacting set to music. This is about 97% of their charm.
** Even allowing for this, the Pirate King and the Mikado are in a category all their own.
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** ONLY the buffo? Dude, if you're NOT hammy, you have no place in opera. Period.
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