{"id":379053,"date":"2021-12-10T06:03:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T03:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/this-is-the-broadway-show-to-see-right-now\/"},"modified":"2021-12-10T06:03:19","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T03:03:19","slug":"this-is-the-broadway-show-to-see-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/this-is-the-broadway-show-to-see-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"#This is the Broadway show to see right now"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#This is the Broadway show to see right now<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Minutes into the musical \u201cCompany,\u201d which opened Thursday night at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, you\u2019re overcome by a sensation that\u2019s eluded the rest of this tricky theater season \u2014 that Broadway really is back.<\/p>\n

Finally, a smart, funny, human revival about the highs and lows of being alive that actually feels alive. It helps that the show by Stephen Sondheim, who died last month, is the best musical about New York City ever written.<\/p>\n

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\n Theater review <\/span><\/p>\n

2 hours and 30 minutes, with one intermission. At the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, 242 W 45th Street.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

No other show understands the callused skin that hardened, cynical New Yorkers develop to make it through another miserable day quite like \u201cCompany\u201d does.<\/p>\n

Sondheim\u2019s musical, splendidly directed by Marianne Elliott, is a paean to NYC about the pains of living in NYC. Eight million people and somehow you\u2019re still single and in your 30s. Constantly surrounded by wackos and dullards. Friends hightail it at random, unable to deal with the stress. Apartments are small. The subway is unavoidable. Why pay for therapy when you could go to \u201cCompany\u201d?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The major shakeup in Elliott\u2019s interpretation is that the main character Bobbie (Katrina Lenk), who\u2019s turning 35, has been changed from a man to a woman. The gender switcheroo is seamless enough that if you don\u2019t know the show, you won\u2019t notice it. <\/p>\n

A female Bobbie adds some clever urgency, though. In 2021, single, 35-year-old men in NYC are less concerned with marriage than whether or not their dad can Venmo them $200. Women, however, stand on a precipice with significant choices to make. To kid or not to kid. To career or not to career.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s Bobbie\u2019s (Katrina Lenk) 35th birthday in \u201cCompany.\u201d<\/figcaption>
Matthew Murphy<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The perfect book by George Furth is a series<\/a> of vignettes in which Bobbie is the token single friend of several zany but familiar couples. She can\u2019t decide if she wants what they have or to go it alone.<\/p>\n

We learn in scenes both hilarious and searing that wedded bliss means misery, compromise and bourbon. Sarah (Jennifer Simard) and Harry (Christopher Sieber) practice jiu jitsu, go on diets and bicker. Peter (Greg Hildreth) and Susan (Rashidra Scott) get divorced to bring themselves closer together. Jenny (Nikki Ren\u00e9e Daniels) and David (Christopher Fitzgerald) think they\u2019re rebels when they get a little high. Joanne (Patti LuPone) calls Larry (Terence Archie) \u201cmy third husband.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jamie (Matt Doyle) and Paul (Etai Benson), on the flip-side, are getting married, but Jamie\u2019s having second thoughts. One stunning lyric: \u201cI telephoned my therapist about it, and he said to see him Monday, but by Monday I\u2019ll be floating in the Hudson with the other garbage.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bobbie (Katrina Lenk), David (Christopher Fitzgerald) and Jenny (Nikki Ren\u00e9e Daniels) go wild when they smoke pot. <\/figcaption>
Brinkhoff-Moegenburg<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And then there are Bobbie\u2019s boyfriends she\u2019s casually dating: Theo (Manu Narayan), P.J. (Bobby Conte) and Andy (Claybourne Elder). Bobbie is Goldilocks and they\u2019re the three bears, but even the fella that app<\/a>ears \u201cjust right\u201d is wrong.<\/p>\n

The whole cast is a smash \u2014 an ensemble as tight as my hamstrings \u2014 but especially on fire are Simard, consistently the funniest actress working on Broadway, and Doyle, whose radiating goodness balances out Jamie\u2019s manic neuroses.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The great LuPone plays Joanne, a wealthy social<\/a>ite whose blood alcohol level is 99%. Dry and vicious, LuPone sells the Bobbie-as-woman concept better than anybody else. Her rousing song \u201cThe Ladies Who Lunch,\u201d about the many ways women in New York fill their days until they croak, becomes a pointed warning to Bobbie: \u201cThis could be you.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The one weak link, I\u2019m sorry to say, is Lenk. The Tony Award winner was wonderful as a wistful restaurant owner in \u201cThe Band\u2019s Visit,\u201d but she does not fit in musically or dramatically here. The should-be gut-punch songs \u201cMarry Me A Little\u201d and \u201cBeing Alive\u201d are tentative and unmoving. That\u2019s a shame because in John Doyle\u2019s 2006 revival \u2014 the gold standard \u2014 Raul Esparza\u2019s Bobby went far beyond a passive observer.<\/p>\n

Still, the strengths of Elliott\u2019s revival are so undeniable that there are few better nights out on Broadway right now.\u00a0<\/p>\n

How bittersweet. It\u2019s a testament to Sondheim\u2019s legacy and talent that his musical written in 1970 is fresh, poignant and entertaining as ever.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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