Posted: 7/1/19 at 11:31pm
Jenna in Waitress
Ogie in Waitress
Curly in Oklahoma!
Aunt Eller in Oklahoma! - The blackmail at the end of the show has always bothered me.
Posted: 7/1/19 at 11:42pm
Posted: 7/2/19 at 12:23am
I agree about Curly. He's a bully and him baiting Jud to suicide has never sat well with me.
I have no idea if Mandy Gonzalez and Lexi Lawson were just very uninspiring but I didn't much like Angelica or Eliza Schuyler. They always just seemed there, at least at the performance I saw. Certainly not the intelligent, bewitching women I think LMM intended them to be and probably were/are when played by stronger actresses.
Posted: 7/2/19 at 7:08am
SugarButterBroadway said: "Curly from Oklahoma - as much as I love the show, he is quite the awful person. He basically convinces a man that he would get the attention he deserves if he goes and hangs himself all in order to get a girl that keeps dismissing his advances. Jud is no prize pig himself, but Curly is pretty horrible"
Curly isn't my favorite character either, but do you really think we are supposed to take Curly's entreaties to Judd as a genuine exhortation for Judd to kill himself? As a means of actually gettting Judd to do himself in? I took it as a sardonic joke of a ribbing, "a guy thing" And motivated not so much to "get the girl" but to put Judd in his place as a brutish outsider, someone apart from the community, a pill - a theme which, as I understand it, is put in sharply critical focus in the new revival.
Posted: 7/2/19 at 8:26am
henrikegerman said: "SugarButterBroadway said: "Curly from Oklahoma - as much as I love the show, he is quite the awful person. He basically convinces a man that he would get the attention he deserves if he goes and hangs himself all in order to get a girl that keeps dismissing his advances. Jud is no prize pig himself, but Curly is pretty horrible"
Curly isn't my favorite character either, but do you really think we are supposed to take Curly's entreaties to Judd as a genuine exhortation for Judd to kill himself? As a means of actually gettting Judd to do himself in? I took it as a sardonic joke of a ribbing, "a guy thing" And motivated not so much to "get the girl" but to put Judd in his place as a brutish outsider, someone apart from the community, a pill - a theme which, as I understand it, is put in sharply critical focus in the new revival.”
That still doesn’t negate the fact that Curly is actively spelling out a fantasy where Jud kills himself. He’s obviously baiting Jud into suicide, showing him a ‘future’ where people view him as a sort of martyr. Ribbing or not, Curly can’t be that naive to believe Jud wouldn’t go through with it, seeing how calculating he is the entire show. I think that’s spelled out pretty clearly in the revival- but the lighter and cheerier tone of classic productions might mask the intention of the scene as ironic or tongue-in-cheek.
Posted: 7/2/19 at 8:28am
Aside from a few of the ones already mentioned, I really dislike Carl-Magnus from A Little Night Music. He's creepy and selfish but also completely toothless - not just unlikable but entirely uninteresting. Regardless of who plays Carl-Magnus, I find him a chore to watch in an otherwise clever and charming show.
Posted: 7/2/19 at 11:42am
I know people are sticking to musicals, but I find the main love triangle in Rapture, Blister, Burn by Gina Gionfriddo to be distractingly unlikable. They treat their children with the emotional weight of pet fish and treat an affair like a fun fling when they're uprooting the lives of everyone around them.
Posted: 7/2/19 at 2:17pm
Evan Hansen is by far my least favorite character in any show, classic or modern.
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