She sings "Here's to the girls who watch" to a woman who has spent the whole evening watching all of her married friends but not getting involved.
Then she sings "When they get depressed, it's a bottle of Scotch", and we've seen Bobbie with that bottle of Scotch all night, including as a giant pinata.
Then she mentions "another chance to disapprove, another brilliant zinger", and we have seen that side of Bobbie all night.
And she sings all of this while sitting at a table with Bobbie, singing directly to Bobbie.
As for its message to Bobbie, I took it as "Live!" Here are all the ways that people can become small, sad versions of themselves, you're no different, so get out there and live.
Not everything about this production worked for me, but turning that passage from being about Joanne to being about Bobbie was an A Plus moment, and it takes no connecting the dots whatsoever, because Elliot has connected them for you. If anything, my complaint with this production is that it probably connects too many dots without finding the center of Bobbie as a character - she's the dot that never gets connected.
But I've only ever seen Jon Doyle and Raul Esparza crack that. |
