I die in Act 1, but I get to come back!

#1

I die in Act 1, but I get to come back!

Posted: 7/26/10 at 12:12pm

As a spinoff to the "Characters That Are Really Only In One Act" thread, name characters who die in Act 1 and are miraculously brought back for an appearance in Act II or III.

The obvious ones are Sarah in Ragtime and Fantine in Les Miserables, but there are lots of others....

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#2

I die in Act 1, but I get to come back!

Posted: 7/26/10 at 12:21pm

My soul dies at the end of Mama Mia's first act, but I get to come back when the show is over.

#3

I die in Act 1, but I get to come back!

Posted: 7/26/10 at 12:22pm

^ love it.

#4

I die in Act 1, but I get to come back!

Posted: 7/26/10 at 12:32pm

Billy Bigelow in Carousel. Well actually he dies and returns all in Act 2, but that's only because R&H needed another chorus of "June is Busting Out All Over" to close Act 1 and that's not the best song to sing at a suicide.

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#5

I die in Act 1, but I get to come back!

Posted: 7/26/10 at 12:34pm

Fred Casely in Chicago dies in the opening, but comes back in the trial.

#6

I die in Act 1, but I get to come back!

Posted: 7/26/10 at 12:37pm

Thuy in "Miss Saigon" dies in Act 1 and returns in the nightmare sequence.

Same composers - Fantine dies in Act 1 of "Les Miserables" and returns in the finale, as does pretty much anyone who buys it along the way...

#7

I die in Act 1, but I get to come back!

Posted: 7/26/10 at 12:38pm

Brenda dies in Scary Movie 3, but comes back in Scary Movie 4.

#8

I die in Act 1, but I get to come back!

Posted: 7/26/10 at 12:54pm

I giggled during the "She's a statue!" moment at the end of The Winter's Tale a few weeks ago in Central Park.

#9

I die in Act 1, but I get to come back!

Posted: 7/26/10 at 12:55pm

couldn't breath from laughing at the Scary Movie one....love it hahaha

Updated On: 7/26/10 at 12:55 PM

#10

I die in Act 1, but I get to come back!

Posted: 7/26/10 at 1:04pm

Half the main cast of Little Shop of Horrors in Act I, and then everybody in LSOH in Act II... but they all get to be in "Don't Feed The Plants".

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#11

I die in Act 1, but I get to come back!

Posted: 7/26/10 at 1:10pm

Having played the Narrator twice in ITW in the past two years I have three to four lines in the Act 2 opening, Agony Reprise happens, then my death scene. So he just dies in act 2 but then never comes back. Mysterious man however which I doubled one of the times I was Narrator dies at the end of Act 1 then comes back for No More near the end of the show.

#12

I die in Act 1, but I get to come back!

Posted: 7/26/10 at 1:16pm

I hate when productions of "Into The Woods" don't double up the Narrator, and the Mysterious Man.

#13

I die in Act 1, but I get to come back!

Posted: 7/26/10 at 1:17pm

As I mentioned in the other thread - in WSS, Riff and Bernardo come back IF you do the complete ballet with the "nightmare" section".

In LUCKY STIFF, the character of Uncle Anthony is killed literally 20 seconds into the show, but appears throughout the rest of the show as a dead body - sky diving, snorkeling, playing black jack, etc. He is, after all, the title character.

#14

I die in Act 1, but I get to come back!

Posted: 7/26/10 at 1:23pm

Dot dies during intermission but returns for the second act in SITPWG.

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#15

I die in Act 1, but I get to come back!

Posted: 7/26/10 at 1:24pm

fashion guru you have no idea how annoying it is to play the Narrator with the Mysterious Man track. Half the meaning is pretty much ripped out of the character. It also gave me nothing to do after I died. I did just the Narrator the first time and when I got to play both a year later I enjoyed the show so much more.

#16

I die in Act 1, but I get to come back!

Posted: 7/26/10 at 1:25pm

Camille in "Thou Shalt Not"

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#17

I die in Act 1, but I get to come back!

Posted: 7/26/10 at 1:26pm

"Brenda dies in Scary Movie 3, but comes back in Scary Movie 4."

Haha! She also dies in the first film.

#18

I die in Act 1, but I get to come back!

Posted: 7/26/10 at 1:40pm

King Charles in Pippin, right? I think I remember when we did it in high school and Charles was on the stage dead and the curtain fell on top of him for the whole of intermission. so funny.

#19

I die in Act 1, but I get to come back!

Posted: 7/26/10 at 2:51pm

Mufusa in "the Lion King" comes back in Simba's vision (the reprise of "He Lives in You) in act two.

#20

I die in Act 1, but I get to come back!

Posted: 7/26/10 at 3:12pm

Sarah in Ragtime. First in a flashback, then as a ghost!

#21

I die in Act 1, but I get to come back!

Posted: 7/26/10 at 4:59pm

Gould in Grey Gardens. Comes back in act two as his ghost.

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