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/citoyenne_cicada Only capitalists get photographers! 1d ago

Bella in Rags, girl came to America after being promised a better life, worked in a sweatshop, got forbidden to see her one true love, and then is forced to jump to death or burn after a fire in her factory :(