Changing Bobby to Bobbie in Broadway's "Company" | Keeping Company with Sondheim | GP on PBS

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Listen to Katrina Lenk (Bobbie), Cynthia Nixon and the Company cast discuss switching the gender of the character of Bobbie, and how it opened the door to switch other roles in the cast as well.
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  • @0518_sunbeam
    @0518_sunbeam Жыл бұрын

    desperately need a proshot..

  • @chiara1194
    @chiara1194 Жыл бұрын

    I love the gender swap. It makes the story extra poignant, because women have this extra pressure on us to get married before it’s too late. Katrina’s Bobbie is full of anxiety, desperation, and avoidance. As a 40 year old woman who desperately wants to get married, I shared Bobbie’s tears as she sang “Being Alive.” By the way, I loved the Himbo Flight Attendant.

  • @FCPA1997
    @FCPA19972 жыл бұрын

    What a tremendous show. Everyone is so well cast. Katrina is stellar!

  • @castlegarden2999
    @castlegarden2999 Жыл бұрын

    This production is kinda what I want to see for more revivals of old shows. I would love to see a genderswap or gay She Loves Me, or maybe Music Man, Light in the Piazza, etc. I think what doubters and naysayers fail to see is that this has been a thing in other countries for years. In Japan they have an all-female theatre troupe called Takarazuka Revue, and they sometimes do Japanese translations of Western shows. And this theatre troupe has been around for over 100 years. So the idea of challenging gender in casting isn't new, it's not a "woke" thing, it's been happening for 100 years.

  • @Multifandom04
    @Multifandom04Ай бұрын

    Anyone have a slime tutorial of the West End show with female Bobbie??

  • @victordunson719
    @victordunson7192 жыл бұрын

    She was sooooooo miscast

  • @jameswhalen4507

    @jameswhalen4507

    10 ай бұрын

    Did you see it? I thought she was brilliant!

  • @michael3498

    @michael3498

    10 ай бұрын

    damn you really went to every one of her videos and commented this.

  • @lucaspena6827

    @lucaspena6827

    9 ай бұрын

    She was amazing

  • @Multifandom04

    @Multifandom04

    Ай бұрын

    This show was amazing. Loved it

  • @bluerisk
    @bluerisk Жыл бұрын

    This gender swap is the reason why I opted for Wicked albeit company is my favorite musical. Become woke, go broke.

  • @davidwilliamklak

    @davidwilliamklak

    Жыл бұрын

    Your loss. One of the best productions of that show that ever existed.

  • @bluerisk

    @bluerisk

    Жыл бұрын

    @@davidwilliamklak From the 22 shows that were on stage in fall 2022, it ranked 21st - second to last. I opted for Wicked and I didn't regret it.

  • @davidwilliamklak

    @davidwilliamklak

    Жыл бұрын

    @@bluerisk uh huh, you opted for wicked, a show with 2 female leads), which is funny cuz it seems you can’t stand the idea of a woman being the lead in company. And probably can’t stand the idea that there’s now a gay couple in it lol. It’s not “going woke” (which btw is a term coined by black people that is now being weaponized and demeaned by white conservatives), it’s just modernizing the show. If the lead stayed as Robert, well it wouldn’t really work as well in a modern lens. Changing the role to Bobbie recontextualizes the lived experience of the character and how the idea of marriage and the pressures of getting married effects her. Stephen Sondheim himself worked on this production. You gonna try and say the creator himself was wrong?

  • @michaeladkins6

    @michaeladkins6

    Жыл бұрын

    Just close your eyes and keep telling yourself it will always be 1954.

  • @j.i.r608

    @j.i.r608

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@michaeladkins6What was so great about 1954?

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