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** Why do Peter and Susan get divorced, given that they [[AmicableExes remain close and actually seem happier than ever]]? Peter flirts with Bobby, implying that they're splitting up because he's gay. If so, that raises the question of whether Susan is just taking it very well, knew the whole time and was willingly TheBeard, or might actually be queer herself. On the other hand, some stagings imply they're still a couple in everything except on paper--maybe they're still in love, but ''marriage'' wasn't for them. They might also be polyamorous, deciding to divorce but remain together and each seek other partners as well. Peter says he won't be moving out because he doesn't want to be apart from their kids ''or'' from Susan, but it's unclear whether they're still romantically linked or if they've settled into PlatonicLifePartners. Bobby's reactions imply ''he'' has no idea what their deal is, either.
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HarsherInHindsight: Dean Jones, who played Bobby, left the show early because of his divorce feeling the show's subject was too close to home. Even though he could have left earlier, he later admitted to having a mini epiphany on stage during the Boston Previews, specifically during the bleak Happily Ever After finale, which prompted him to leave as soon as he could.
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* HarsherInHindsight: Dean Jones, who played Bobby, left the show early because of his divorce feeling the show's subject was too close to home. Even though he could have left earlier, he later admitted to having a mini epiphany on stage during the Boston Previews, specifically during the bleak Happily Ever After finale, which prompted him to leave as soon as he could.
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HarsherInHindsight: Dean Jones, who played Bobby, left the show early because of his divorce feeling the show's subject was too close to home. Even though he could have left earlier, he later admitted to having a mini epiphany on stage during the Boston Previews, specifically during the bleak Happily Ever After finale, which prompted him to leave as soon as he could.
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* CrossoverShip: Bobby and Charley from another Sondheim musical ''Theatre/Merrily We Roll Along''.
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* CrossoverShip: Bobby and Charley from another Sondheim musical ''Theatre/Merrily We Roll Along''.''Theatre/MerrilyWeRollAlong''.
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* CrossoverShip: Bobby and Charley from another Sondheim musical ''Theater/Merrily We Roll Along''.
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* CrossoverShip: Bobby and Charley from another Sondheim musical ''Theater/Merrily ''Theatre/Merrily We Roll Along''.
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* CrossoverShip: Bobby and Charley from another Sondheim musical Merrily We Roll Along.
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* CrossoverShip: Bobby and Charley from another Sondheim musical Merrily ''Theater/Merrily We Roll Along.Along''.
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* CrossoverShip: Bobby and Charley from another Sondheim musical Merrily We Roll Along.
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In the 1990s, Sondheim (himself gay) rewrote the lyric:
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** In the 1990s, Sondheim (himself gay) rewrote the lyric:
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* AwardSnub: Raul Esparza was nominated for, but did not win, a Tony for Best Leading Actor in 2006. Many, if not all, Broadway fans still consider this to be an absolute travesty. (David Hyde Pierce won instead for a now near forgotten musical called ''Curtains''.)
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Joanne seems to be very popular. Having been originated by Elaine Stritch and since then played by the likes of Patti [=LuPone=] helps, in addition to the fact that she is a DeadpanSnarker with a great many hilarious lines, and her song ''The Ladies Who Lunch'' is one of the best known numbers from the show, and can easily bring down the house.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: EnsembleDarkHorse:
** Joanne seems to be very popular. Having been originated by Elaine Stritch and since then played by the likes of Patti [=LuPone=] helps, in addition to the fact that she is a DeadpanSnarker with a great many hilarious lines, and her song ''The Ladies Who Lunch'' is one of the best known numbers from the show, and can easily bring down the house.
** Joanne seems to be very popular. Having been originated by Elaine Stritch and since then played by the likes of Patti [=LuPone=] helps, in addition to the fact that she is a DeadpanSnarker with a great many hilarious lines, and her song ''The Ladies Who Lunch'' is one of the best known numbers from the show, and can easily bring down the house.
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* TearJerker: "Being Alive."
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* TearJerker: "Being Alive."" Amy's WhamLine of "I don't love you enough" when she (briefly) attempts to call off the wedding to Paul - as well as Paul's reaction which, in most productions, consists of him [[ManlyTears blatantly trying his hardest not to cry while asking Bobby to call the church and explain the situation]] before stumbling out of the room as though he's just been punched - can very easily be this if done right. It's even more impressive that this comes towards the end of what's arguably [[MoodWhiplash one of the funniest scenes in the show]].
* ValuesDissonance:
** The original version of "You Could Drive a Person Crazy" had the following lyric sung by the three women:
--->I could understand a person\\
If it's not a person's bag\\
I could understand a person\\
If a person was a fag
In the 1990s, Sondheim (himself gay) rewrote the lyric:
--->I could understand a person\\
If he said to go away\\
I could understand a person\\
If he happened to be gay
** Given men in their thirties no longer face the same kind of pressure to be married or in a committed relationship nowadays, modernized revivals have changed up the character of Bobby to make the concept still work without portraying the events in the past. A production in Spain starring Creator/AntonioBanderas now put Bobby in his fifties where steady relationships are much more expected, and the West End (followed by a Broadway run) famously made Bobby a woman, with a noticeable emphasis on the biological clock of having to settle down.
** The original version of "You Could Drive a Person Crazy" had the following lyric sung by the three women:
--->I could understand a person\\
If it's not a person's bag\\
I could understand a person\\
If a person was a fag
In the 1990s, Sondheim (himself gay) rewrote the lyric:
--->I could understand a person\\
If he said to go away\\
I could understand a person\\
If he happened to be gay
** Given men in their thirties no longer face the same kind of pressure to be married or in a committed relationship nowadays, modernized revivals have changed up the character of Bobby to make the concept still work without portraying the events in the past. A production in Spain starring Creator/AntonioBanderas now put Bobby in his fifties where steady relationships are much more expected, and the West End (followed by a Broadway run) famously made Bobby a woman, with a noticeable emphasis on the biological clock of having to settle down.
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** April can come off as this as well. Bobby pretty explicitly uses her for sex and she's put down by all the wives, despite coming off as a sweet, if dim, woman.
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** April can come off as this as well. Bobby pretty explicitly uses her for sex and she's put down by all the wives, despite coming off as a sweet, if dim, woman.woman.
** Jamie/Amy who has such low self esteem that they find it too hard to believe that their adoring husband loves them. They're also implied to have panic attacks of the nature seen in the wedding scene on a constant basis. Jamie in the revival has the added layer of suffering from internalised homophobia.
** Joanne could also be viewed this way, similar to Jamie/Amy she finds it hard to believe that she is loved to the point of packing up her things twice a year just so Larry will ask her to stay. Not to mention her previous divorces.
** Though the wedding happens anyway, its still hard not to feel bad for Paul when Amy/Jamie calls it off on the day of. He calmly and lovingly tries to calm down his betrothed, but eventually gives up and sadly walks away to tell everyone the ceremony is cancelled.
** Jamie/Amy who has such low self esteem that they find it too hard to believe that their adoring husband loves them. They're also implied to have panic attacks of the nature seen in the wedding scene on a constant basis. Jamie in the revival has the added layer of suffering from internalised homophobia.
** Joanne could also be viewed this way, similar to Jamie/Amy she finds it hard to believe that she is loved to the point of packing up her things twice a year just so Larry will ask her to stay. Not to mention her previous divorces.
** Though the wedding happens anyway, its still hard not to feel bad for Paul when Amy/Jamie calls it off on the day of. He calmly and lovingly tries to calm down his betrothed, but eventually gives up and sadly walks away to tell everyone the ceremony is cancelled.
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* RefrainFromAssuming: Amy's song is actually titled "Getting Married Today" but is often misreferred to as "Not Getting Married Today".
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* TheWoobie: Bobby, especially by the end. The wives even sing a song about him called "Poor Baby."
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** Bobby, especially by the end. The wives even sing a song about him called "Poor Baby."
** Bobby, especially by the end. The wives even sing a song about him called "Poor Baby."
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** Bobby is gay. Sondheim and Furth have stated that the reason Bobby hasn't been able to settle down is ''not'' because he's a closeted gay man, but for a while there was talk of a rewritten version where Bobby is ''openly'' gay and struggling to commit to one man. Since the original production though, there have been hints that Bobby is at least bicurious, as the current libretto has him admit to [[AmbiguouslyGay Peter]] that he's had a homosexual experience, though he laughs off the idea of him and Peter having one. Additionally, the recent Broadway revival had the genderbent Bobbie swipe right on a woman using a dating app.
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** Bobby is gay. Sondheim and Furth have stated that the reason Bobby hasn't been able to settle down is ''not'' because he's a closeted gay man, but for a while there was talk of a rewritten version where Bobby is ''openly'' gay and struggling to commit to one man. Since the original production though, there have been hints that Bobby is at least bicurious, as the current libretto has him admit to [[AmbiguouslyGay Peter]] that he's had a homosexual experience, though he laughs off the idea of him and Peter having one. Additionally, the recent genderbent Broadway revival had the genderbent Bobbie swipe right on a woman using a dating app.
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** Bobby is gay. Sondheim and Furth have stated that the reason Bobby hasn't been able to settle down is ''not'' because he's a closeted gay man, but for a while there was talk of a rewritten version where Bobby is ''openly'' gay and struggling to commit to one man.
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** Bobby is gay. Sondheim and Furth have stated that the reason Bobby hasn't been able to settle down is ''not'' because he's a closeted gay man, but for a while there was talk of a rewritten version where Bobby is ''openly'' gay and struggling to commit to one man. Since the original production though, there have been hints that Bobby is at least bicurious, as the current libretto has him admit to [[AmbiguouslyGay Peter]] that he's had a homosexual experience, though he laughs off the idea of him and Peter having one. Additionally, the recent Broadway revival had the genderbent Bobbie swipe right on a woman using a dating app.
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Robert is dating three women at the same time and never gets called out for it. Of course, the show doesn't say he's in the right, and it's shown that none of them are actually healthy relationships, with both parties in all three being unhappy.
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation:
** Bobby is gay. Sondheim and Furth have stated that the reason Bobby hasn't been able to settle down is ''not'' because he's a closeted gay man, but for a while there was talk of a rewritten version where Bobby is ''openly'' gay and struggling to commit to one man.
** Exactly how serious Joanne is when she suggests that she and Bobby have an affair varies from production to production, especially depending on how much chemistry the actors involved have. Her comment "I just did someone a big favor" hints that she never intended to actually ''do'' it and was indeed hoping to illicit the reaction she got from Bobby, but it's worth noting that she ''is'' drunk when she suggests it.
** Almost the entire show takes place inside Bobby's head, so there's a lot of ambiguity over whether we're seeing his friends as they actually ''are'' or as how Bobby ''sees'' them. For example, in "Poor Baby", do the wives really spend their nights worrying about their handsome, single male friend, or does Bobby just like to think that they do? Are they really that judgemental of his girlfriends, or is Bobby using their perceived criticisms as yet another excuse to avoid becoming emotionally vulnerable in his relationships?
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: It's Sondheim, so there's quite an abundance, but "Being Alive", "The Ladies Who Lunch", "Marry Me a Little", and "Another Hundred People" are all showstopping pieces. "Getting Married Today" is also incredible, if for no other reason than the amount of effort and breath control required to keep up with the MotorMouth verses.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Joanne seems to be very popular. Having been originated by Elaine Stritch and since then played by the likes of Patti [=LuPone=] helps, in addition to the fact that she is a DeadpanSnarker with a great many hilarious lines, and her song ''The Ladies Who Lunch'' is one of the best known numbers from the show, and can easily bring down the house.
** Creator/ChristinaHendricks' portrayal of April in the 2011 concert version was extremely well received as well, with her monologue actually stopping the show as the audience laughed and cheered.
* FanPreferredCouple - There is next to no ''Company'' fanfiction, but most of what little there is pairs Bobby with Joanne.
* GeniusBonus: [[LadyDrunk Joanne]] comments that [[MustHaveNicotine smoking]] is "the best", saying that it's "better than Librium". Librium was a precursor to Valium, a sedative/muscle relaxant/anti-convulsant/anti-anxiety drug, mostly prescribed short term for anxiety. You know what else it's prescribed for? [[TheAlcoholic Acute alcohol withdrawal]].
* GrowingTheBeard: Sondheim has said that ''Company'' was the show where he really found his voice as a composer; after hearing the first orchestra rehearsal of the opening number, he thought, "Oh, that's who I am." The score also won him his first Tony Awards (for both music and lyrics), finally establishing him as Broadway's leading composer after years when he had been mostly in demand for lyrics only.
* SignatureSong: "Being Alive" and "The Ladies Who Lunch", and to a lesser extent "Side By Side By Side" and "Another Hundred People."
* TearJerker: "Being Alive."
* TheWoobie: Bobby, especially by the end. The wives even sing a song about him called "Poor Baby."
** April can come off as this as well. Bobby pretty explicitly uses her for sex and she's put down by all the wives, despite coming off as a sweet, if dim, woman.
** Bobby is gay. Sondheim and Furth have stated that the reason Bobby hasn't been able to settle down is ''not'' because he's a closeted gay man, but for a while there was talk of a rewritten version where Bobby is ''openly'' gay and struggling to commit to one man.
** Exactly how serious Joanne is when she suggests that she and Bobby have an affair varies from production to production, especially depending on how much chemistry the actors involved have. Her comment "I just did someone a big favor" hints that she never intended to actually ''do'' it and was indeed hoping to illicit the reaction she got from Bobby, but it's worth noting that she ''is'' drunk when she suggests it.
** Almost the entire show takes place inside Bobby's head, so there's a lot of ambiguity over whether we're seeing his friends as they actually ''are'' or as how Bobby ''sees'' them. For example, in "Poor Baby", do the wives really spend their nights worrying about their handsome, single male friend, or does Bobby just like to think that they do? Are they really that judgemental of his girlfriends, or is Bobby using their perceived criticisms as yet another excuse to avoid becoming emotionally vulnerable in his relationships?
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: It's Sondheim, so there's quite an abundance, but "Being Alive", "The Ladies Who Lunch", "Marry Me a Little", and "Another Hundred People" are all showstopping pieces. "Getting Married Today" is also incredible, if for no other reason than the amount of effort and breath control required to keep up with the MotorMouth verses.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Joanne seems to be very popular. Having been originated by Elaine Stritch and since then played by the likes of Patti [=LuPone=] helps, in addition to the fact that she is a DeadpanSnarker with a great many hilarious lines, and her song ''The Ladies Who Lunch'' is one of the best known numbers from the show, and can easily bring down the house.
** Creator/ChristinaHendricks' portrayal of April in the 2011 concert version was extremely well received as well, with her monologue actually stopping the show as the audience laughed and cheered.
* FanPreferredCouple - There is next to no ''Company'' fanfiction, but most of what little there is pairs Bobby with Joanne.
* GeniusBonus: [[LadyDrunk Joanne]] comments that [[MustHaveNicotine smoking]] is "the best", saying that it's "better than Librium". Librium was a precursor to Valium, a sedative/muscle relaxant/anti-convulsant/anti-anxiety drug, mostly prescribed short term for anxiety. You know what else it's prescribed for? [[TheAlcoholic Acute alcohol withdrawal]].
* GrowingTheBeard: Sondheim has said that ''Company'' was the show where he really found his voice as a composer; after hearing the first orchestra rehearsal of the opening number, he thought, "Oh, that's who I am." The score also won him his first Tony Awards (for both music and lyrics), finally establishing him as Broadway's leading composer after years when he had been mostly in demand for lyrics only.
* SignatureSong: "Being Alive" and "The Ladies Who Lunch", and to a lesser extent "Side By Side By Side" and "Another Hundred People."
* TearJerker: "Being Alive."
* TheWoobie: Bobby, especially by the end. The wives even sing a song about him called "Poor Baby."
** April can come off as this as well. Bobby pretty explicitly uses her for sex and she's put down by all the wives, despite coming off as a sweet, if dim, woman.
