| re: My Company rant in general - not targeted to you, kidmanboy - with staging spoilers | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 05:50 pm EST 12/31/21 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 05:38 pm EST 12/31/21 | |
| In reply to: re: My Company rant in general - not targeted to you, kidmanboy - with staging spoilers - Ann 02:34 pm EST 12/31/21 | |
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| I don't know why Sondheim never apparently would ok a production with Bobby being a closeted gay man, perhaps out to one or a few other characters. I think it would have worked without having to have very much rewriting from the original, much less than with making Bobbi a woman, and it might explain an awful lot of his hesitancy -- he's just dating, sleeping with and being set up with the wrong people. Plus he hasn't had role models in these straight couples that he can see how a gay couple could make a go of things. That also depends if this is set in 1970, in the 1980s at the start of the AIDS crisis, or after gay marriage is legal in the US. Perhaps if they made one of the couples gay could be one way of dealing with having some kind of real role model for him to somehow see that as a possibility for him. He could be bi, too, but that would complicate things, but then again, Sondheim usually rather liked some complexity in his work, being as he was into creating and sometimes solving puzzles. The character of Bobby is a real puzzle all right, still not easily solved. One problem with the concept of the show: I know couples who when they marry will drop singles as friends; it's not that unusual actually. They don't want a third-wheel or perhaps competition for their spouse's attention. For Bobby or Bobbi, they might have 1 or 2 couples with whom they might still socialize (especially with a date along), but having a whole bunch of couples (and not many single platonic friends) is just not very believable, though the songs are so great we tend to just go along with them for the ride of the show. |
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