Sweet Charity, I DONT GET IT???

Your English teacher should be scourged.

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LOL ^ Dolly

Bob Fosse didn't want a happy ending for this show. It's as plain and simple as that. A happy ending would've went against Fosse's visions.

Though they changed the ending for the revival - it dosen't go against Fosse's vision.

Updated On: 7/7/05 at 11:36 PM

I don't consider the ending of the revival "happy" at all. She is still obviously heartbroken, and she lets us know with the reprise of "Bravest Individual." But she lets the world know that she will be okay.

In the original, she got dumped - and then she gets a visit from a fairy - or so she thinks it's her fairy godmother. I haven't seen the original finale done live - but I don't know if I'm crazy about how it sounds.

Really, the situation is a no win situation - the ending is going to be bad no matter what.

Oscar and Charity get married - corny and expected. Would somewhat be a let down, and you'd feel empty after (I mean, its too happy of an ending)
Oscar leaves Charity, Charity refuses to take him back and gets depressed - like Roxie said, would be out of character for Charity. Plus, it would leave a very empty feeling to the whole show.
Oscar leaves Charity, Charity refuses to take him back and takes it in stride (current ending) - it is completely in character for Charity, yet it seems to the audience to be very abrupt. You leave the theater feeling empty (but probably not as empty as other endings).
Oscar leaves Charity, Charity takes him back - what would the moral here be? He blew you off, but take him back for him to do it back. Itd make the ending pointless. Again, empty feeling.

She's a doormat. Remember this was written in the pre-feminist era. Today, she'd be the hooker she really is supposed to be -- taxi dancer...uh, right.

I think the ending was appropriate. Great show, and Christina was excellent. And please indicate that there's a spoiler, since you guys are giving away the ending!!! (For those who haven't seen it yet).

The "Good Fairy" ending mentioned above worked like this - Charity gets dumped by Oscar. She's sitting on a park bench when a fairy appears, saying "Tonight. It will all happen tonight." Charity goes off with new found hope, and the fairy turns around, and has a sandwich board on her back, advertising a program called "The Good Fairy - Tonight on CBS". It gets laughs, but is a little cruel. It's one more time that Charity gets screwed over, and she doesn't even know it. The new ending for the revival is not entirely believable - Charity comes off as just too self-aware, but I thought it was possibly a step in the right direction.

I have to admit, I like the film's ending, with the flower children, which was more true to the show's source, the film, Nights of Cabiria. But that ending would never work on stage.

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I liked the ending because it shows how she can move on and face the world with her head up and now let this put her down. I didn't feel empty when I left, I felt that I learned a great moral in "I'm the Bravest Individual." I really wasn't expecting to love this show as much as I did and the ending didn't bother me. The ending, i believe was changed in the movie and they ( the producers ) liked it and kept it.

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