Why Have So Many Gay Actors Played The Role Of "Bobby" In Company?

Because a girl's gotta eat!

Because Bobby requires a certain charm that only we can provide.

Only a gay man can convey the emotion needed to belt out "Being Alive"

I wouldn't say that Esparza "played" Bobby. I saw the production and I'd say he chomped his way through the role with overwrought theatrics.

Bobby is Sondheim, the gay friend of all these married couples. So it makes sense that Bobby would be played by a gay actor.

In fact, very occasionally Bobby is played as gay and the girlfriends are boyfriends. (It's been once or twice IIRC, though I've not seen any of those performances.)

^^

Jesus, this tired old pronouncement again? George Furth wrote the book, r5, not Sondheim.

Bobby was closeted

This strikes me as kind of a stupid question, OP. With all due respect.

Surprised that Anthony Perkins was first choice for Bobby with a horrible singing voice like this

[quote] This strikes me as kind of a stupid question, OP. With all due respect.

Why? Dean Jones who played the part was straight

Possibly there are more gay singing actors than straight ones?

Sue me, but I thought Perkins was wonderful in Greenwillow (which was not a good property)--he just sort of broke your heart when his voice cracked on the last "marry". Maybe that was a quality that would have worked well for Bobby. Dean Jones had the same kind of quality, but with a more reliable singing voice.

[quote]Jesus, this tired old pronouncement again? George Furth wrote the book, [R5], not Sondheim.

Yes my son, I think there’s actually some truth to it.

baloney.

Dean Jones remains the definitive Bobby and as noted he was straight.

And how many people left alive saw him originally in the role? Like maybe two? Hal Prince and Steve Sondheim?

The character of Bobby is definitlet closested and "being alive" is his " I wanna come out" anthem. Many gays related to this. Would love to see the new west end production with a female Bobby

You are making this up. People saw him as straight and he was played as straight when the show opened.

You are looking back and making him gay. That is why there is now that idiotic homosexual pass to show people much to their relief he is not gay.

Being Alive is not I Am What I Am. It is the 'I want' song coming at the end not at the beginning.

give it up, r15. you can interpret the show and the song and relate to them any way you want, I guess, but it's absurd for you to attribute intent and meaning to the authors.

Vince Edwards (Dr. Ben Casey) played Bobby on a tour- str8.

Bobbi is being played by a woman in the Marianne Elliott production in the UK At the Gielgud from September 26 to December 22? Sondheim gave his blessing to the decision after attending a workshop that tested the concept.

Bobby, Bobby, Bobby, Bobby

Bobby! Bobby! Bobby Baby! Bobby bubi! Robert! Robert darling!....

You loved her as Millie Loman and Professor Carol Hill ... now the Little Theater of Schenectady proudly presents Miss Bobbi Adler as Bobbi in "Company!"

Broadway night tonight!