Worst Broadway Boyfriends

#1

Worst Broadway Boyfriends

Posted: 7/13/10 at 2:01pm

Seems appropriate to have a corollary to the 'best' thread, no?

I'd start with:

Freddie & Lawrence, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Judd, Oklahoma
Judge Turpin, Sweeney Todd
The Dentist, Little Shop of Horrors

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#2

Worst Broadway Boyfriends

Posted: 7/13/10 at 2:01pm

James Barbour

#3

Worst Broadway Boyfriends

Posted: 7/13/10 at 2:03pm

Bill Sykes, Oliver!

#4

Worst Broadway Boyfriends

Posted: 7/13/10 at 2:04pm

I actually think Fiyero is a terrible boyrfriend.
If he counts, the Phantom.

#5

Worst Broadway Boyfriends

Posted: 7/13/10 at 2:08pm

He is an ex-boyfriend but Zack, A Chorus Line
Bobby, Company
Roger, Rent
Warner, Legally Blonde
Berger, Hair

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#6

Worst Broadway Boyfriends

Posted: 7/13/10 at 2:20pm

Burrs, The Wild Party
Glenn Guglia, The Wedding Singer

#7

Worst Broadway Boyfriends

Posted: 7/13/10 at 2:23pm

Jamie, Last 5 Years
Father, Ragtime (Well he might have been an OK Boyfriend but he was a horrible spouse)

#8

Worst Broadway Boyfriends

Posted: 7/13/10 at 2:23pm

Lt. Cable, South Pacific

#9

Worst Broadway Boyfriends

Posted: 7/13/10 at 2:28pm

Have to second Jamie, I think he's an AWFUL boyfriend.

Agreed with Fiyero too. He cheated on Glinda, didn't he?

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#10

Worst Broadway Boyfriends

Posted: 7/13/10 at 2:33pm

He just leads her on, not technically cheating.

#11

Worst Broadway Boyfriends

Posted: 7/13/10 at 2:48pm

Marvin in Falsettos... not exactly a great husband or boyfriend.

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#12

Worst Broadway Boyfriends

Posted: 7/13/10 at 2:52pm

I think I've always been and will always be a little bit in love with Bobby (though that's what the writers wanted), but at least as we see him in the show, not ideal.

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#13

Worst Broadway Boyfriends

Posted: 7/13/10 at 3:06pm

Well if that's enough to get Fiyero on the worst list I think you have to boot Link Larkin for the same offense.

#14

Worst Broadway Boyfriends

Posted: 7/13/10 at 3:13pm

Link is just plain using Amber to get in good with her Mother. So yeah, that is pretty bad.

Link is also kind of a dumb ass.

Updated On: 7/13/10 at 03:13 PM

#15

Worst Broadway Boyfriends

Posted: 7/13/10 at 3:14pm

Kodaly SHE LOVES ME

#16

Worst Broadway Boyfriends

Posted: 7/13/10 at 3:23pm

Will & Johnny, American Idiot
Johnny was almost identical to my ex-boyfriend. eek.

#17

Worst Broadway Boyfriends

Posted: 7/13/10 at 3:47pm

Johnny from American Idiot, yes. I don't know about Will so much. Will, unlike the others on this post, never hurts, betrays or uses his girlfriend. He's just kind of a loser, and she walks out on him because she wants more out of life. In fact, by the end, that's what turns him around- seeing the relatively good and productive life Heather and her Rock and Roll Boyfriend have finally motivates him to get off the couch for the first time in a year.

#18

Worst Broadway Boyfriends

Posted: 7/13/10 at 4:09pm

Benny - RENT
(only in it for the $$$-- at first)

Freddy Benson - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
(again, in it for the $$$)

And he may be adorable, but Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors is sort of the catalyst for his boss/girlfriend/the entire world getting eaten by alien plants, so I'd say that's pretty bad.

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#19

Worst Broadway Boyfriends

Posted: 7/13/10 at 4:14pm

i don't know about Fiyero. i think its kind of obvious to everyone except Glinda he wasn't an activepart of the relationship for awhile. i mean she announced their engagement without him ever having asked her, and he finds out at the big gathering. which wouldnt be an ideal time to say hey i dont really want to marry you. and before he had time for a private conversation boom he is off trying to save elphaba.

#20

Worst Broadway Boyfriends

Posted: 7/13/10 at 4:19pm

Giorgio from Passion

#21

Worst Broadway Boyfriends

Posted: 7/13/10 at 4:24pm

Two more to add:

Jimmy and Jack from Reefer Madness
(Both- on indirectly and one directly- get their girlfriends (SPOILERS) shot/bloodied and hooked on MARY-JEW-ANNA!)

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#22

Worst Broadway Boyfriends

Posted: 7/13/10 at 4:26pm

Frank Hardy in FAITH HEALER
Benjamin Barker in SWEENEY TODD
George Seurat in SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE

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#23

Worst Broadway Boyfriends

Posted: 7/13/10 at 4:30pm

Naw, I wouldnt say Lt Cable. He was just poor and confused and felt obligated by his "girl back home", until he decided to have a little "thrill" with liat and he fell in love with her. Its only natural :)

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#24

Worst Broadway Boyfriends

Posted: 7/13/10 at 4:31pm

Oh, and Cheyenne Jackson, because he never got back to Miranda Sings' emails. LOL

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#25

Worst Broadway Boyfriends

Posted: 7/13/10 at 4:36pm

George from SITPWG? Are you kidding?

If you want instead when you're dead
Some more public and more permanent expression
Of affection
You want a painter, poet, sculptor preferably
Marble, granite, bronze
That's durable forever
All it has to be is good
And George, you're good
You're really good
George's stroke is tender
George's touch is pure
Your eyes, George
I love your eyes, George
I love your beard, George
I love your size, George
But most, George, of all
But most of all
I love your painting