Characters
- Reverend Brock - an idealistic old preacher
- Tommy Howatt - An ambitious young reporter
- Laura Crosbie - a society girl who falls for Tommy
- Ellington Dupont Smythe II - Laura’s elegant young suitor
- Purdy - Laura’s wealthy uncle
- Bridget - Purdy’s maid
- Frye - a detective
- Gertie - a vivacious young prostitute
- Joe Kovack - a farmer who discovered coal on his land
- Nita - escapes prostitution when she falls in love with Joe
- Margie - One of the girls Tommy shares an act with
- Jessica Havemeyer - clerk at the church Parish House
- Martin - a prudish church choirmaster
- Mrs. Barker -a church lady and friend of Rev. Brock
- Chairman - officiates over the trial of the Tenderloin
- Deacon - an old man who Tommy hires to take pictures
- Rooney - a police officer
- Sergeant - collects the money all the derelicts give the police
- Schmidt - a corrupt police lieutenant
- Derelicts; Prostitutes at Clark’s tavern (Pearl, Maggie, Nellie, Liz)
Read more about this topic: Tenderloin (musical)
Famous quotes containing the word characters:
“I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“The Nature of Familiar Letters, written, as it were, to the Moment, while the Heart is agitated by Hopes and Fears, on Events undecided, must plead an Excuse for the Bulk of a Collection of this Kind. Mere Facts and Characters might be comprised in a much smaller Compass: But, would they be equally interesting?”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
“White Pond and Walden are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light.... They are too pure to have a market value; they contain no muck. How much more beautiful than our lives, how much more transparent than our characters are they! We never learned meanness of them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)