| re: All well and good, but |
| Last Edit: lordofspeech 03:02 pm EST 03/09/22 |
| Posted by: lordofspeech 03:00 pm EST 03/09/22 |
| In reply to: re: All well and good, but - Delvino 12:34 pm EST 03/09/22 |
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Nice analysis of how the song is meant to fit. Stritch was able to play it as an indictment of herself as a woman of idle privilege as well, which made it both scorching and self-eviscerating.
But there was something else. In each of Bobby’s scenes, his fantasy that any one of these women might’ve saved him is ripped away. Amy’s refusal of him is the most shocking, but to see Joanne, his other favorite gal, implode, pushes Bobby further into confronting his void. The show may not be linear, but it has a progression regarding Bobby’s self-discovery, and the Amy scene and the Joanne scene are the pivots.
I gather that, despite raves about the song, the scene after « Not Getting Married Today » can’t really work in this gender-twisted version, and the scene after « Ladies Who Lunch » has been twisted too much to have the required impact. That’s too bad. Those two short scenes of dialogue have power in the original, strong-arming Bobby into growing up. Poor Furth. His fine handiwork is not fully honored here. |
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