Thanks for your help so far! I was wondering if you could also help me think of sexually aggressive female characters from non-Sondheim shows? Older the better but more recent is fine too.
I have Ado Annie from Oklahoma, Lola from Damn Yankees, Lois Lane from Kiss Me Kate, Rizzo from Grease, Shelia in A Chorus Line, Carmen Jones, Evita, some of the women of Hello Again, the taxi cab character from On the Town.
Ruth Sherwood in Wonderful Town.
Agnes Gooch
Anne Cathrick in The Woman in White.
The Beggar Woman, SWEENEY TODD
Tracy Turnblad, HAIRSPRAY
Grizabella, CATS
Jane Eyre, JANE EYRE
Celie, THE COLOR PURPLE
Mimi, RENT
Nadie, BARE
Luisa Contini, NINE (in a way)
Marie, SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE (in a way)
Julie Jordan, CAROUSEL (in a way)
Anna Leonowens (at times, in a way)
Maria von Trapp (at times, in a way)
Caroline, CAROLINE OR CHANGE (in a way)
Eponine - Les Miserables
Fantine - Les Miserables
Young Cosette - Les Miserables
Elphaba - Wicked
The Witch - Into The Woods
The Beggar Woman - Sweeney Todd
Celie - The Color Purple
Mimi - RENT
Sarah - Ragtime
Daisy and Violet (Hinton?) - Side Show
Annie - Annie
Beast - Beauty and the Beast
Grizabella - Cats
Eva Perone (in the beginning) - Evita
Chava - Fiddler on the Roof
Kim (in the beginning) - Miss Saigon
Mimi - Miss Saigon
Aldonza - Man of La Mancha
Tuptim - The King & I
Mary Magdelene - Jesus Christ Superstar
Lucy - Jekyll and Hyde
Hedwig - Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Sandy - Grease
Rizzo - Grease
Julie - Showboat
Dot - Sunday In The Park
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Norma Desmond - SUNSET BOULEVARD (sort of)
Bertrande - MARTIN GUERRE
Alex, Jane & Sukie - THE WITHCHES OF EASTWICK
Belle - BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (sort of)
Fantine - LES MISERABLES
"Latina Girl" in BROOKLYN
Jenny Diver, Polly Peachum, Lucy Brown-THREEPENNY OPERA
Hesione-THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE
Julie LaVerne-SHOW BOAT
Svetlana-CHESS
Katie-A TREES GROWS IN BROOKLYN
Rebecca and Bella-RAGS
Mother and Sarah (in a way)-RAGTIME
The Baroness in THE SOUND OF MUSIC
Katisha in Mikado
Mirtrio (Daphne Rubin-Vega's part) in Bernarda Alba
Charity in Sweet Charity
Effie in Dreamgirls
Betrande in Martin Guerre
Esmerelda in Hunchback or Notre Dame de Paris
I really wouldn't consider the Baroness in Sound of Music to be an outcast. If anything, Maria is the outcast of that show.
Well it's more specific than that, but I didn't want to lead too much/wanted to keep the door open for a change of ideas.
My thesis is that Sondheim revolutionized the treatment of the female outsider (most specifically ending with Fosca in Passion), as nearly every other female character outsider before his shows either found her tragic demise/ruination or was "tamed" to fit society's standards.
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That sounds like a great idea for a paper!
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Well for the "Agressive" ones, I would have to say Queenie in The Wild Party.
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donna Murphy's charater in Hello, Again
Miss Hannigan from Annie
The old woman in Candide
I don't see how ruth sherwood from wonderful town is sexually agressive... neither do i see it with the witch from into the woods.
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I don't know if she really counts, but maybe Adela in "The House of Bernarda Alba".
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