The most annoying character in any famous musical ever

Hugo in “Bye Bye Birdie.”

Bob Fosse

Ursula in Bye Bye Birdie

If played ineptly, Mama Rose in Gypsy. You ever see Linda Lavin play her? Yikes! You wanted someone to kick her and tell her to shut the fuck up.

Bloody Mary in SOUTH PACIFIC

Gertie Cummings owns this thread.

The car in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Margaret O'Brien in Meet Me in St. Louis.

Zaneeta Shinn in The Music Man

r9 What about ME?

Og in "Finian's Rainbow."

Angel in RENT

Gertie. She only appears in Oklahoma! for the specific purpose of being annoying.

Those fucking Trapp kids.

John Adams in "1776"

That's blasphemy, r15! Sit down!

The Engineer in "Miss Saigon"

Dr. Kitchell, the Bells Are Ringing dentist who wants to be a song writer is pretty damned annoying.

I thought Molly was the Oh my goodness in Annie

Ermengarde in Hello, Dolly. There is no way to make that character funny.

The child Kim in "Show Boat"--too much melodrama.

All of the women in "The Full Monty." (Except Jeanette.)

Kris Kringle in Miracle in St. Louis

[quote] Kris Kringle in Miracle in St. Louis

Ummm...

A second vote for Ermengarde from HELLO DOLLY. Ambrose is a close follow up.

For R24.

Ben in Follies. He fucks up the others' lives, while getting literally everything he wants, and is still miserable. Waah!

That old codger who sings More I Cannot Wish You, bringing Guys and Dolls to a dead halt.

Uncle Arvide.

Arvide Abernathy

Donald O'Connor in Singin' in the Rain. He doesn't make me laugh, he makes me want to die.

The entire cast of Flower Drum Song

Tessie is indeed the whining orphan.

Molly is the youngest of the orphans, the one Annie cradles when she sings "Maybe." She was played by Danielle Brisebois in the OBC.

FOLLIES!

Eponine in Les Miserables. She's always whining about her unrequited love for Marius. What's more, she even gets a whole damn solo saying the exact same thing we've heard before! That pisses me off, because the musical seems to sideline Cosette in favor of her. But Cosette should be more developed than that street urchin and she doesn't even get her own solo. The one duet she gets with Marius is interrupted by Eponine once again singing about her unrequited love. Ugh.

Frid in A Little Night Music. Lost his one song out of town and spends half a book scene near the end of the 2nd act being annoying with annoying Petra.

Actors cast in small parts for the primary purpose of being understudies are annoyed and annoying.

Frid fills the OPs requirements and therefore owns this thread.

Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, such a mousy doormat.

Doc in "West Side Story"

"I have no mind. I am the village idiot."

Gary Coleman in "Avenue Q."

Nessarose in "Wicked."

Ben in Follies really is the worst. Has anyone ever made that character work? I've seen excellent performances of the other three leads, but I always find Ben to be the biggest issue of the show. He whines and whines but never seems to have any actual problems. At best, he just wants something different from middle age and doesn't seem to know what it is. Why does he suddenly get obsessed with Sally and make out with her? It always seemed like he fucked her a few times and left her soon after and that it was just physical for him or due to boredom. He never seemed to have any feelings for her until this night.

Does he just believe all her little lies about having the perfect life, husband, and children and think "hey, I want that and maybe I can have it with her?"

Ermengarde is easily the worst. Every production I've seen of that show stops to halt every time that character is on stage. Horribly unfunny and shrill.

Ben is not so difficult. He's driven and ambitious. Everything in his life has been sublimated to his ambition. He wants the road he didn't take and the road he did take, too. He's a narcissist. Everyone and everything is used by Ben to serve his voracious ambition.

I agree, r43. He’s a potentially unlikable character, but not difficult or annoying. To me, anyway. He’s one of those characters that has to be cast just so if we're to be engaged emotionally by him and not just intellectually. Philip Quast in the NT production came closest for me.

Pantene, or whatever Nicole Kidman's name was, in Moulin Rouge. I'm not advocating violence, but someone should have backslapped the bitch.

Evita, in the [italic]movie[/italic] version of it.