Characters You Feel Sorry for in Shows
Characters You Feel Sorry for in Shows
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
Characters You Feel Sorry for in Shows#1
Posted: 11/7/13 at 9:47am
In the recent thread on Company, I chanced to think of the kind of life Bobby's wife would have if he actually got married. Talk about a poor baby! Bobby, do her a favor and stay single!
Many times, after enduring some grueling opus, I find myself leaving the theatre feeling sorry for one--- or several -- of the characters most sorely served by their creators. Like the poor mother in Fun Home. Talk about having the cards stacked against you; she has the whole deck plus two jokers! No wonder she never gets to crack a smile. And poor Judy Kuhn having to play this part! She, the mother, the audience, the world---- we all deserve better.
Here are some other characters in musicals I most feel sorry for. I'd love to read other people's lists as well.
The ex-girlfriend in Once. She was lucky to have dumped that wailing whiner in the first place. Now she's duped by the con concocted by him and that pill that he missed her all along. Isn't a relationship supposed to be built upon honesty and trust? Apparently not according to "guy" and "girl."
Margie. Giving up the best years of her life for a two-timing loser.
Georgio. No explanation needed.
Sweeney Todd's victims.
Characters You Feel Sorry for in Shows#2
Posted: 11/7/13 at 9:54amMary in Merrily We Roll Along.
Characters You Feel Sorry for in Shows#3
Posted: 11/7/13 at 10:00am
Nancy in Oliver!
Harry Beaton
The Beggar Woman
Tobias
Elphaba
Kim in Miss Saigon
Grizabella
Tup Tim
The Edies in Grey Gardens
Coalhouse Walker
Sarah
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Characters You Feel Sorry for in Shows#4
Posted: 11/7/13 at 10:12am
As I was making my list I realized it was almost identical to besty's.
So all of those, plus
Everyone in Les Miz
Characters You Feel Sorry for in Shows#5
Posted: 11/7/13 at 10:13amI've always felt bad for Jud in Oklahoma!
Characters You Feel Sorry for in Shows#6
Posted: 11/7/13 at 10:17amThe cast of Spiderman
Characters You Feel Sorry for in Shows#7
Posted: 11/7/13 at 10:24am
I feel bad for Jud in Oklahoma! until he tries to burn Laurey and Curly alive in their house.
Then not so much.
Same thing with the Phantom ... I feel sorry for him until he starts killing people.
Same thing with Sweeney actually.
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Characters You Feel Sorry for in Shows#8
Posted: 11/7/13 at 10:46am
Miss Honey
Sarah
Evelyn Nesbit
Mary Phagan
Mrs. Phagan
Characters You Feel Sorry for in Shows#9
Posted: 11/7/13 at 10:48amLike tazber, my list is similar to Bestie's - I will add Julie from Show Boat
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
Characters You Feel Sorry for in Shows#10
Posted: 11/7/13 at 10:56am
I feel sorry for both Kim and Ellen in Miss Saigon
Stand-by Joined: 7/17/13
Characters You Feel Sorry for in Shows#11
Posted: 11/7/13 at 11:01amI feel bad for all the characters in Gypsy including Mama Rose. All the characters has hopes and dreams that do not come true. It is a sad story but a lot of their problems are caused by their own faults. But Mama is a person who does care about her daughters but does not know how to show it.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
Characters You Feel Sorry for in Shows#12
Posted: 11/7/13 at 11:20amDr Henry Jekyll
Characters You Feel Sorry for in Shows#13
Posted: 11/7/13 at 11:24am"The cast of Spiderman" made me LOL Taz! Thank-you!
Broadway Star Joined: 1/31/06
Characters You Feel Sorry for in Shows#14
Posted: 11/7/13 at 11:26amPaul in A Chorus Line just breaks my heart.
Joined: 12/31/69
Characters You Feel Sorry for in Shows#16
Posted: 11/7/13 at 11:45am
Rose Stopnick
Sarah and Coalhouse
Queen and Sonja
Queenie
Daisy and Violet Hilton
Julie Jordan
Fosca
Characters You Feel Sorry for in Shows#18
Posted: 11/7/13 at 11:56amI've always felt bad for Charley in Merrily
Characters You Feel Sorry for in Shows#19
Posted: 11/7/13 at 11:56am
The MC in Cabaret.
Sally in Cabaret
Fräulein Schneider in Cabaret
Lucy the Slut in AQ
Michael in Billy Elliot.
Elder McKinley in Book of Mormon.
Bonnie in Bonnie and Clyde
All the Dancers who didn't get the part in A chorus Line
All the Villagers in Fiddler on the Roof
Mama Rose in Gypsy
Everyone in Next to Normal
The Witch in Into the woods.
Fantine in Les Mis
Eponine in Les Mis
Javert in Les Mis
Audrey in LSH.
Norma Desmond in Sunset
Everyone in WSS.
Elphaba and Glinda in Wicked.
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/06
Characters You Feel Sorry for in Shows#22
Posted: 11/7/13 at 3:56pmHow can you feel bad for all those characters in Cabaret but not Herr Schultz? Also I feel no sympathy for Sally what so ever.
Characters You Feel Sorry for in Shows#23
Posted: 11/7/13 at 4:02pmSandy the dog for being in that TERRIBLE Annie musical.
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
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