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| Posted by: Clancy 02:43 am EST 02/17/19 | |
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| Excellent production. Sets, costumes, acting, accents are all good. Marianne Elliott as Director The decision to have Bobby instead be Bobbie is a masterstroke. Every production of Company I’ve seen Bobby is a cipher. Why would a 35-year-old man be concerned whether he should get married? A 35-year-old woman adds much needed complexity. It: • Frames her friendships with the married couples more deeply. • Makes her interactions with her boyfriends/suitors less power-driven • Adds a delicious lesbian undertone to her interactions with Joanne And Rosalie Craig (Bobbie) can not only sing and act, she has wicked comedic timing. Stritch would be proud. Patti LuPone as Joanne Was lucky enough to see the Neil Patrick Harris production at Lincoln Center where LuPone played Joanne for the first time. There are similarities to her performance as Rose in Gypsy at City Center versus the Broadway production. Both were excellent. But you can tell in the Company London production that she’s had time to internalize the role just as she did as Rose in the Broadway Gypsy. She is an Actor Who Sings. And it makes her performance the best Joanne I’ve seen. In every other production of Company I always took the last stanza of Ladies Who Lunch to be Joanne talking about herself: “Here’s to the girls who just watch…” What is radical about this production is that this last stanza is now lazerly directed at Bobbie. Not Joanne. “Look into their eyes and you see what they know…” And by the way, No Flannel Mouth. One other note: during the two performances I attended the loudest curtain call applause was for Jonathan Bailey. I hope he makes the transfer to New York. |
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