Least Likable Characters?
Least Likable Characters?
Joined: 12/31/69
#1Least Likable Characters?
Posted: 3/12/07 at 6:22pm
Rent came on Sirius 77 today and I realized-- I hate every single character in that show. Drug addicts, strippers, lazy freeloaders, performance artists--let's face it, if you were at the table next to them in that restaurant scene, you'd get your meal to go!
So is there any other musical with such a large, unlikeable cast?
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#2re: Least Likable Characters?
Posted: 3/12/07 at 6:24pmI hate every ape I see, from Chimpan-A to Chimpan-Z.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
ashbash1990
Broadway Star Joined: 10/15/06
#4re: Least Likable Characters?
Posted: 3/12/07 at 6:35pmWICKED...
What a night! I was in more laps than a napkin!
Broadway Star Joined: 12/31/69
#5re: Least Likable Characters?
Posted: 3/12/07 at 7:04pmMAN I wondered how long before someone would say Wicked!
#6re: Least Likable Characters?
Posted: 3/12/07 at 7:36pmPhantom of the Opera. I really do not like any of the characters at all.
"I have a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell!"
#9re: Least Likable Characters?
Posted: 3/12/07 at 7:54pmI'm not a fan of the characters in Phantom either...
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DoReMi
Stand-by Joined: 5/19/03
mollyml05
Chorus Member Joined: 3/12/07
RockabyeHamlet
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/05
#12re: Least Likable Characters?
Posted: 3/12/07 at 8:43pmJudge Turpin from Sweeney Todd
"I wouldn't let Esparza's Bobby take my kids to the zoo...I'd be afraid he'd steal their ice cream and laugh."- YankeeFan
"People who like Sondheim enjoy cruelty."-LuvtheEmcee
"People who like Sondheim enjoy cruelty."-LuvtheEmcee
thevolleyballer
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#14re: Least Likable Characters?
Posted: 3/12/07 at 8:59pm
Everyone in Sweeney Todd except Toby, Anthony, and Johanna. Bah.
In Little Shop, I get pretty pissed at Audrey II. Yes, it's a plant, but it still pisses the hell out of me.
dramaqueen2
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/23/05
#15re: Least Likable Characters?
Posted: 3/12/07 at 10:13pm
HAHAHAHA agreed volleyballer! it's bugs the heck out of me too!!
and i don't love the characters in phantom either, they're kind of all idiots, IMO.
hear my song; it was made for the time when you don't know where to go, listen to the song that i sing, you'll be fine..
neddyfrank2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#16re: Least Likable Characters?
Posted: 3/12/07 at 11:07pm
Every character in Beauty and the Beast.
Also if I was in a restaurant and sat next to the Beales I would leave.
#17re: Least Likable Characters?
Posted: 3/13/07 at 12:47amI found most of the characters in Steel Pier really hard to like.
I killed the boss, you don't think they're gonna fire me over a thing like that!!!!
thevolleyballer
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#18re: Least Likable Characters?
Posted: 3/13/07 at 1:34amOh, and to tack another on to my growing list, Sir Bedevere from "Spamalot." Steve Rosen is fab, but my God, is that part really needed?
#19re: Least Likable Characters?
Posted: 3/13/07 at 2:57amCosette and Marius, for sure. Fantine, Eponine, and even Valjean to a certain extent die for them, and yet their love story is as superficial and essentially worthless as can be.
"Why, I make more money than... than... than Calvin Coolidge! PUT TOGETHER!"
~Lina Lamont
My name wasn't, isn't, and will never be Scott.
~Lina Lamont
My name wasn't, isn't, and will never be Scott.
gustof777
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/8/04
#20re: Least Likable Characters?
Posted: 3/13/07 at 3:04amWicked!
RIP Natasha Richardson. ~You were a light on this earth ~
#21re: Least Likable Characters?
Posted: 3/13/07 at 3:12amAll 3 main characters in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Not likable, but fun to watch. And I know it's not a musical, but what about the entire cast of Glen Gary Glennross?
FeelingElectric
Broadway Star Joined: 9/28/05
#22re: Least Likable Characters?
Posted: 3/13/07 at 7:12amGeorge and Martha in Who's Afaraid of Virginia Woolf.They are two despicable characters I absolutely love to hate.
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#23re: Least Likable Characters?
Posted: 3/13/07 at 7:18am
are we talking about least liked by us?
Well I have to say cause the show was so horrible it sucked big ones!
Crap-a-cabana
I wished Rico had shot both Lola and Tony. Arg!
"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."
#24re: Least Likable Characters?
Posted: 3/13/07 at 7:18am
are we talking about least liked by us?
Well I have to say cause the show was so horrible it sucked big ones!
Crap-a-cabana
I wished Rico had shot both Lola and Tony. Arg!
"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around."
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