Characters You Feel Sorry for in Shows- Page 2

[EVIE]

Posted: 11/7/13 at 5:01pm

Amos in Chicago

[Idiot]

Posted: 11/7/13 at 7:31pm

Peron's Mistress in EVITA. Kills me every time, even though I know she'll get by -- she always has before.

[FlowerChild67]

Posted: 11/7/13 at 7:50pm

"Same thing with Sweeney actually"

Really? I feel bad for Sweeney even after he starts killing people. I wouldn't excuse the fact he starts killing people, but he's been alone in prison for 15 years for no reason other than the fact the judge wanted his wife, he found out his wife had died (well, he thought so, anyway), his daughter was being raised by the person who caused his misfortune in the first place. He kinda went off the deep end. Mrs. Lovett, on the other hand, lied to and manipulated him. She's the evil one, in my opinion.

[After Eight]

Posted: 11/7/13 at 8:22pm

Flower Child,

How about the people he killed? Do you feel sorry for them?

[Emmaloucbway]

Posted: 11/7/13 at 8:26pm

The campfire girl in Big Fish.

Posted: 11/7/13 at 9:09pm

All the characters in Gypsy? By the age of 19 or so (who knows how old she really was!) Gypsy was a huge international star who succeeded (with little or no actual talent) in a very very tough business. I guess if all you know is the first two hours of the show you might think she's miserable but even by the end of the show she is off and running on one of the most fabulous lives EVEF

[LMcC95]

Posted: 11/7/13 at 10:36pm

She was told all her life she was not talented and to stand in the back. Yes, she did go on to great success but she never felt she had her mom's love. Also, she lost a sister in the whole thing. She just wanted to be a normal girl and go to normal school and have a normal family

[FlowerChild67]

Posted: 11/8/13 at 2:15am

After Eight:

Yes, I do. I also feel sorry for Tobias, Johanna, Anthony, and Beggar Woman. Like I said, it's not excusing his murders, but I certainly do feel sorry for him.

Posted: 11/8/13 at 8:16am

You need to read Gypsy's autobiography. She certainly didn't see it that way.

[jnb9872]

Posted: 11/8/13 at 9:31am

All of THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS.

[BwayGeek2]

Posted: 11/8/13 at 11:13am

Velma Kelly in Chicago.
Dr. Dillamond in Wicked.
The cast of Rent, specifically Angel and Collins.

[Outoftowner2]

Posted: 11/8/13 at 12:18pm

Lucy Barker, Coalhouse Walker, Nancy in "Oliver!" Michael in "Billy Elliot".

[broadfan327]

Posted: 11/8/13 at 12:42pm

Sandy's understudy in Annie, whose only scene in the current revival as far as I could tell was being pushed across the stage in a cage.

[theaterfan862]

Posted: 11/8/13 at 12:52pm

Everyone in Next to Normal break my heart, but especially the father. He did everything he could to help his wife and she ends up leaving him.
Also Tobias and Lucy in Sweeney Todd, Amos in Chicago, Paul in A Chorus Line, Sonia in Vanya..., Collins in Rent, Claude in Hair,the religious woman in Hands on a hard body and many more.

[denali.fire]

Posted: 11/9/13 at 11:46am

Everyone in fun home

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 11/9/13 at 11:53am

Bea in Ballroom
Mack & Mabel
The Hilton Sisters

[Wilmingtom]

Posted: 11/9/13 at 5:05pm

Mrs. Taylor in ALLEGRO

[gfaustswa]

Posted: 11/9/13 at 7:21pm

I've always felt bad for Sheila in A Chorus Line…. granted, she is a bitch….it's her last shot at making it… and then that look she gives Zach when she exits has always portrayed a feeling of sincere disappointment.

Updated On: 11/9/13 at 07:21 PM

[mjohnson2]

Posted: 11/10/13 at 1:17am

Audrey from Little Shop of Horrors is the reason why I cry at this otherwise campy and amazing show. All she wants is a nice quiet life and instead.... SHE GETS EATEN BY A PLANT...

[jemjeb2]

Posted: 11/10/13 at 1:44am

Coalman Walker. Sara. "Ragtime"

[adam.peterson44]

Posted: 11/10/13 at 2:46am

Javert

[onedaymore]

Posted: 11/10/13 at 7:20am

Elder Cunningham in BOM at the beginning....Price is so mean to him! lol

[BobBenson]

Posted: 11/12/13 at 10:04am

Amos and Hunyak in CHICAGO
Luisa in NINE
Charity in SWEET CHARITY
Sarah and Coalhouse in RAGTIME
Simba in THE LION KING
Kim and Ellen in MISS SAIGON
Nancy in OLIVER

And I wholeheartedly agree with whomever said they have no sympathy for Sally in CABARET. By the end of the show, I actually can't stand her. That's only in the show. Oddly enough, I don't feel that way about Liza in the film.

[Wickedmonkey332]

Posted: 11/12/13 at 10:26am

Aunt Bella and Grandma in Lost In Yonkers.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 11/12/13 at 10:30am

Has anyone yet mentioned:

Laura in GLASS MENAGERIE

Catherine in THE HEIRESS

(ETA - if we aren't limiting it to musicals. The title says "shows" - I didn't see the musicals only reference in the opening post until after I read through the thread a second time. So, never mind!)

Updated On: 11/12/13 at 10:30 AM