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Maxwell "Max" Carrigan
Max across the universe

Hair color

Blonde

Eye color

Blue

Hometown

Princeton, New Jersey

Friends

Jude

Sadie

Prudence

Family

Lucy (sister)

Unnamed younger sister

Unnamed mother

Unnamed father

Teddy (uncle)

Unnamed grandmother

Maxwell "Max" Carrigan is a young Princton student living in America, who befriends Jude. He is the brother of Lucy He gets drafted and goes to war.

Biography

America

Princeton, New Jersey

Max is a student at Princeton University, however, he dropped two courses and did not take school very seriously. He meets Jude when he is searching for his father, and they sing "With a Little Help From My Friends". Later, Max picks up Lucy from school and they drive to their family's house for Thanksgiving. Max, his father, and his uncle Teddy get into a fight about "who Max is" and what he plans for his future. He decides to drop out of college and move to New York with Jude.

New York City, New York

Max and Jude move in with Sadie in Greenwich Village, with Max paying the rent. Lucy comes up to join them in New York, and falls in love with Jude. Later, Max is drafted to the war. He tries to think of ways to avoid going, but realizes there are none and shows up to the military office, where he is tested and accepted to go to war. Lucy is worried about him, but Max goes to Vietnam and fights until he is seriously wounded. He is taken home and is hospitalized and relying on morphine, making him delirious. He later recovers and when Jude is concerned that Lucy has been killed, appears to him and informs him she is alive. Jude comes back to America and Max greets his friend and takes him to Sadie's rooftop concert.

Songs

Solos

  • Happiness Is a Warm Gun

Solos (In a Group or Duet Number)

  • With a Little Help From My Friends
  • All You Need is Love
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