rec.arts.theatre.musicals

dgsweet wrote:
> On Mar 1, 8:23�pm, Sweevil wrote:
>> I think the commitment theme might land better if there were at least
>> one really worthy female waiting for his decision. �By satirizing all
>> the girlfriends -- and all the women in the show -- as nuts or ditzes,
>> Robert's lack of commitment looks more like simple prudence.
>
> I don't think that's accurate. Kathy is not a nut or a ditz. She is
> disappointed certainly, but not a caricature. And, though she's scene
> in a frantic state, I've always found Amy endearing. (There's a
> theory that she was based on Paula Prentiss, who was George Furth's
> classmate at Northwestern University and apparently really once said
> that she wanted her own Jew. That turned out to be Richard Benjamin,
> of course.)

Of course, in an early draft of "Company", Bobby actually proposed to
Amy at the end of ActTwo, hence the song "Multitudes of Amys".

--

Stephen

Forbidden barn? Check. Implied polygamy? Check. Ladies and gentlemen, we
have a cult.