I actually liked that a lot...it seems like a choreographed representation of how suffocating this Bobbie's life can seem to her, even though this large extended group of friends and lovers literally revolves around her. And I liked that, at times, she seems just this side of completely overwhelmed by her friends, who are, frankly...a lot. And that set piece also seems like a nod to the shoebox size apartments in which a lot of New Yorkers live and how difficult it can be to have more than a couple of people over at once.
I haven't seen this production yet, but, if I came into this opening number knowing nothing about the show, I think I'd have a pretty good idea of what I was in for during the evening: a person trying to find herself, while also trying to keep her head above water with her friends, who don't seem to think about her, as a person, at all, only as a convenient accessory to their own lives when needed. |
