| re: Here! Here! | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 05:24 pm EST 02/18/19 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 05:23 pm EST 02/18/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Here! Here! - Chromolume 04:53 pm EST 02/18/19 | |
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| I don't think Bobby is gay necessarily in the original Company... though I do think it's very easy to make that case. But it doesn't change that the show as written can and is also true for many straight men and just people in general. Which is why I love the show as it originally was -- though I do think including Marry Me A Little is a huge improvement for Bobby's emotional and mental journey/growth toward "Being Alive", and I think a necessary thing for the audience, not to mention a f*cking great song. I'm sure the show worked, especially as a new show introducing new things for a musical, in 1970, without MMAL, but I think it's necessary now. But I do think the show makes the most sense now in a gay version with a gay bobby. And I definitely have to disagree with you about waiting until gay marriage is more pervasive and accepted. I think we've had it long enough that gay men under 40, especially ones living a more "mainstream" lifestyle, are expected by friends (straight and gay alike) and definitely family who now have had many years to know marriage as a legit option, to get married or to at least find a committed partner. In fact for a lot of straight people, it legitimizes what a gay life and relationship is. It no longer has to be thought of as some naturally unconventional or untraditional union. But either way I'm very much the gay Bobby in my life as Company presents it (or how a "gay" Company would), and it rings very true. |
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