| re: Video of the “Company” opening number (current production). |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 07:54 pm EST 02/16/22 |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 07:51 pm EST 02/16/22 |
| In reply to: re: Video of the “Company” opening number (current production). - Jasonandbroadway 11:58 pm EST 02/15/22 |
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Sondheim is also on recorded saying he didn't think John Tiffany's gay Company reading worked at all because it's not how or why the show was written, and then completely contradicts that pure originalism for his own work by letting Marianne do a version changing Bobby's gender which that makes far less sense for maintaining how/why/what it was written for.
The Bobby and friends of Company as written has MUCH more in common with what gay life is currently like than what it is for straight people or a woman. But he couldn't see it and held that it can't be done because it just isn't want they wrote... well, I'm sorry but neither is a female Bobbie with half-baked gender-switching of some of the rest of the cast, and a half-baked update to 2020, again, even less what they wrote than a gay Company, in updated for 2020 or set in 1970.
You know, it's *almost* as if Sondheim had blinders on with regard to this because of perhaps some deep internalized homophobia and lack of connection to modern gay life. Hmmm... |
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