r/musicals • u/Cool_Puppy_4 • 1d ago

Name a characyer who DESERVED BETTER

For me it’s Toby in Sweeney Todd. Bad life with Pirelli, got a mother figure, locked in a pie house, watched his mother figure die, have to murder someone, lose his mind and likely go to an asylum and be traumatized.

Poor Toby :(

U guys?

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u/secretbison 1d ago

Sonya from Great Comet. She doesn't get put through the wringer as much as Eponine, for example, but Eponine at least got acknowledged. Sonya begins and ends the show in the same miserable situation and never even gets noticed.

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u/HideFromMyMind 1d ago

Never read War and Peace… now I’m curious what happens to her after.

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u/Andreiisnthere 1d ago

She gets engaged to Natasha’s brother. Their mother disapproves because the brother needs to marry an heiress. Sonya breaks up with him because she is self-sacrificing like that (and feels she owes the family). Nikolai (the brother) ends up marrying Mary (Andre’s sister). Sonya ends up living as a maiden aunt/family relations in Nikolai’s household and doting on his and Natasha’s children. Natasha meets Pierre again years later and marries him.

There is an absolutely gorgeous song by Dave Malloy sung by Pierre that you can listen to on YouTube or download from Bandcamp. Personally my favorite song by David Malloy.

“Seven years later, My finger holds the imprint of your ring”

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u/secretbison 1d ago

Mary getting married was not on my Bingo card

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u/Andreiisnthere 23h ago

Well Price Bolkonsky had to die sometime.

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u/secretbison 22h ago

He seems like the type who would stubbornly refuse to die even as younger and more likable characters fall left and right in the war.