![]() Dry and vicious, LuPone sells the Bobbie-as-woman concept better than anybody else. The great LuPone plays Joanne, a wealthy socialite whose blood alcohol level is 99%. ![]() The whole cast is a smash - an ensemble as tight as my hamstrings - but especially on fire are Simard, consistently the funniest actress working on Broadway, and Doyle, whose radiating goodness balances out Jamie’s manic neuroses. Bobbie is Goldilocks and they’re the three bears, but even the fella that appears “just right” is wrong. (Bobby Conte) and Andy (Claybourne Elder). Brinkhoff-MoegenburgĪnd then there are Bobbie’s boyfriends she’s casually dating: Theo (Manu Narayan), P.J. One stunning lyric: “I telephoned my therapist about it, and he said to see him Monday, but by Monday I’ll be floating in the Hudson with the other garbage.” Bobbie (Katrina Lenk), David (Christopher Fitzgerald) and Jenny (Nikki Renée Daniels) go wild when they smoke pot. Jamie (Matt Doyle) and Paul (Etai Benson), on the flip-side, are getting married, but Jamie’s having second thoughts. Joanne (Patti LuPone) calls Larry (Terence Archie) “my third husband.” Jenny (Nikki Renée Daniels) and David (Christopher Fitzgerald) think they’re rebels when they get a little high. Peter (Greg Hildreth) and Susan (Rashidra Scott) get divorced to bring themselves closer together. Sarah (Jennifer Simard) and Harry (Christopher Sieber) practice jiu jitsu, go on diets and bicker. We learn in scenes both hilarious and searing that wedded bliss means misery, compromise and bourbon. She can’t decide if she wants what they have or to go it alone. The perfect book by George Furth is a series of vignettes in which Bobbie is the token single friend of several zany but familiar couples. It’s Bobbie’s (Katrina Lenk) 35th birthday in “Company.” Matthew Murphy Women, however, stand on a precipice with significant choices to make. In 2021, single, 35-year-old men in NYC are less concerned with marriage than whether or not their dad can Venmo them $200. The gender switcheroo is seamless enough that if you don’t know the show, you won’t notice it.Ī female Bobbie adds some clever urgency, though. The major shakeup in Elliott’s interpretation is that the main character Bobbie (Katrina Lenk), who’s turning 35, has been changed from a man to a woman. Why pay for therapy when you could go to “Company”? Friends hightail it at random, unable to deal with the stress. Constantly surrounded by wackos and dullards. Eight million people and somehow you’re still single and in your 30s. Sondheim’s musical, splendidly directed by Marianne Elliott, is a paean to NYC about the pains of living in NYC. No other show understands the callused skin that hardened, cynical New Yorkers develop to make it through another miserable day quite like “Company” does. 2 hours and 30 minutes, with one intermission.
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