Worst Broadway Boyfriends

[madbrian]

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

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

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

James Barbour

[ColorTheHours048]

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

Bill Sykes, Oliver!

[byebyebaby12]

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

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

[backwoodsbarbie]

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

[darquegk]

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

Burrs, The Wild Party
Glenn Guglia, The Wedding Singer

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)

[ColorTheHours048]

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

Lt. Cable, South Pacific

[SporkGoddess]

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?

[byebyebaby12]

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

He just leads her on, not technically cheating.

[Kad]

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

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

[luvtheEmcee]

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.

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.

[byebyebaby12]

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

[CurtainPullDowner]

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

Kodaly SHE LOVES ME

[wendilin622]

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

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

[darquegk]

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.

[Katurian2]

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.

[tamra2]

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.

[taylorPHENOMENON2]

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

Giorgio from Passion

[Katurian2]

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!)

Updated On: 7/13/10 at 04:24 PM

[fosca3]

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

[onedaymore]

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 :)

[onedaymore]

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

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

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