Your favorite anti-hero characters from musicals
Your favorite anti-hero characters from musicals
#0Your favorite anti-hero characters from musicals
Posted: 10/13/05 at 6:26pmMine: Sweeney Todd and Javert
MargoChanning
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#1re: Your favorite anti-hero characters from musicals
Posted: 10/13/05 at 6:28pmPal Joey
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#2re: Your favorite anti-hero characters from musicals
Posted: 10/13/05 at 6:51pmj. pierrepont finch, billy flynn
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#3re: Your favorite anti-hero characters from musicals
Posted: 10/13/05 at 6:52pmBilly Bigelow
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#4re: Your favorite anti-hero characters from musicals
Posted: 10/13/05 at 6:59pm
Oh, Javert. We do love him so.
Definately love Sweeney Todd... but can we really call him anti-hero, because it IS his show afterall? Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I would say that he IS the protaganist if Sondheim's masterpeice. So does he really count? I absolutely adore him, but I don't know if I would classify him as anti-hero...
"I mean, how many of us could honestly say that at one time or another he hasn't set fire to some great public building?"
#5re: Your favorite anti-hero characters from musicals
Posted: 10/13/05 at 7:01pm
Sweeney's actions aren't exactly heroic.
I'd count him, all right!
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rentheadcagofan12
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#6re: Your favorite anti-hero characters from musicals
Posted: 10/13/05 at 7:06pmBilly Flynn.
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#7re: Your favorite anti-hero characters from musicals
Posted: 10/13/05 at 7:08pmJavert, Sweeney.
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#8re: Your favorite anti-hero characters from musicals
Posted: 10/13/05 at 7:19pm
I'm not saying that Sweeney IS a hero (in the general sense). I just think it's a little odd to say that he is the "anti-hero" of a story that is HIS. I do think him a villain, in the general sense. But the fact is that the musical is his story, and I hardly think him the villain OF HIS OWN STORY. I would definately classify Sweeney as the protaganist of Sondheim's musical, and thus I find it difficult to say that he is "anti-hero". If he is anti-hero... then, praytell, who is the hero of Sweeney Todd whom he is so against?
"I mean, how many of us could honestly say that at one time or another he hasn't set fire to some great public building?"
Updated On: 10/13/05 at 07:19 PM
#9re: Your favorite anti-hero characters from musicals
Posted: 10/13/05 at 7:22pm
A protagonist can be either a hero or an anti-hero. There's no doubt that the story revolves around him, just as Pal Joey and Billy Bigelow are also protagonists... they are also anti-heroes. It's possible to be both.
A protagonist isn't necessesarily heroic.
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#10re: Your favorite anti-hero characters from musicals
Posted: 10/13/05 at 7:26pm
dracula
count von krolock
cathy and jaime sort of act as each others anti-heros
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gavrochegirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
#12re: Your favorite anti-hero characters from musicals
Posted: 10/13/05 at 7:39pmJavert and Sweeney!
What the puck?!
#13re: Your favorite anti-hero characters from musicals
Posted: 10/13/05 at 7:44pmlik omg the wizird in wikd
theatrebabe
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/22/05
#14re: Your favorite anti-hero characters from musicals
Posted: 10/13/05 at 7:46pmHere's another one for Javert. I think I have some others, but I can't really think of them at this moment. Does Benny count?
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Born2cthelightsofbway
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#15re: Your favorite anti-hero characters from musicals
Posted: 10/13/05 at 7:47pmDracula and Gaston.
"You alone can make my song take flight, it's over now, the Music of the Night!!!!!"
#16re: Your favorite anti-hero characters from musicals
Posted: 10/13/05 at 7:56pm
I'd go with Robert from Company, I'd consider him an anti-hero.
Also, another vote for Billy Flynn... can we vote for anti-heroines too?
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LostLeander
Broadway Star Joined: 3/18/05
#17re: Your favorite anti-hero characters from musicals
Posted: 10/13/05 at 7:59pm
Gaston is not an anti-hero, he's a villian - a Disney villian, but a villian nonetheless.
There's a difference...
Sweeney, Georges/George from Sunday in the Park with Georges
There's really not much for us to like about Georges/George, but he's so damn interesting. I don't know if he's an anti-hero, but he's just not a very likeable character, and that's what makes Sondheim so damn good, because I still love him deeply.
Personally, I think I have too much bloom.
RaininSmilies
Featured Actor Joined: 3/31/05
#19re: Your favorite anti-hero characters from musicals
Posted: 10/13/05 at 8:12pm
Javert
Sweeney
And could the Witch in ITW count?
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GovernorSlaton
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/04
#20re: Your favorite anti-hero characters from musicals
Posted: 10/13/05 at 8:26pm
Sweeney - Sweeney Todd
John Wilkes Booth - Assassins
Fosca - Passion
Caroline - Caroline or Change
#21re: Your favorite anti-hero characters from musicals
Posted: 10/13/05 at 8:28pm
I didn't mean to imply that a protaganist had to be heroic- I do know that's not the case.
I do feel that to be anti-hero, though, there needs to be a hero. Again, I ask: who is the hero of Sweeney Todd?
"I mean, how many of us could honestly say that at one time or another he hasn't set fire to some great public building?"
Over_the_Moon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/22/05
#22re: Your favorite anti-hero characters from musicals
Posted: 10/13/05 at 8:32pm
Does Fagin count?
He's not really a hero or an anti-hero...
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GovernorSlaton
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/04
#23re: Your favorite anti-hero characters from musicals
Posted: 10/13/05 at 8:37pmMy understanding is that an anti-hero is the protagonist whose actions are less than admirable. Sweeney certainly fits that description.
rentheadcagofan12
Understudy Joined: 8/25/05
#24re: Your favorite anti-hero characters from musicals
Posted: 10/13/05 at 8:39pmOooo, I can't believe I forgot Frank! Oops. Oh well-- Frank N Furter from Rocky Horror.
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