The New York Times: Bobby was not in the lobby. It was the week before previews began of a much-anticipated revival of “Company,” the 1970 musical that cemented Stephen Sondheim’s reputation as a composer, and the first floor of the Gielgud Theater here was abustle with crew members, costumes and scenery — including the bed on which the protagonist, Bobby, seduces a flight attendant, after which they sing the hypnotic “Barcelona.”
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Reenvisioning Company is so smart. I first found out about this director a couple years ago when I saw The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. I thought the direction was so smart and clever. It has been of the best plays I have ever seen. She recently came back to the NY scene in the revival of Angles in America. Both of these shows were incredible. She does a really good job of taking the text and truly making it relevant for now. Her production has a lot of buzz since they first announced it. It is genius to make this show non-gender. This show is more important relationships, success and failure that gender is never taken into consideration. Having Bobby be played by a girl is so smart. I am excited to see how things change but yet are the same even though the characters are being performed by different genders. I am hoping this show comes to NY as it will be great and its something the New York Theatre scene needs to see.
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