Company

But isn’t the repetition the point? Echoing the lyric.

Just watched it
Very good.do you know the answer to her question at the end about her glasses?

I don't, but I imagine @ryan can answer that question!

This is great! Who or what is Irene the Tuba?

If Patti was to have played an instrument it just had to be a tuba. Tuba has Patti all over it.

I have a question. I've just been looking at the Wikipedia page for Company and the Awards and Nominations section caught my eye. In the Original Production, six performances were nominated (none won):

Larry Kert (Bobby) - or Bobbie
Elaine Stritch (Joanne)
Susan Browning (April) - or Andy
Charles Kimbrough (Harry)
Barbara Barrie (Sarah)
Pamela Myers (Marta) - or PJ

But what really caught my attention was that whilst four of these performances were in the correct catagory, Elaine and Susan were nominated for Leading Actress even though their roles are very much Featured. Is it just because of the amount of nominees for Company? Was it a particularly weak year so they were just placed there or was it just because those two roles are arguable standout roles?

It's also really interesting to see Beth Howland wasn't nominated as Amy (or Jamie, as we know it!), whilst that role has been nominated for both a Tony and twice for an Olivier since (well, once officially, but we all know Jonathan's getting a nomination!) 😂

My good friend and former class mate is Bob Bullen who asks her about the Vodka Stinger. 

On another note..when is the cast recording come out?! The show is nearly closing. 

Whether a role is considered leading or featured at the Tony Awards depends on billing as much as anything else, and then a producer can apply to the committee to consider a role in a different category. I would guess Elaine Stritch was nominated in the leading actress category based on billing - she wasn't billed above the title, which is what usually puts a role in the leading category, but she got an 'and Elaine Stritch' on the poster when everyone else apart from the actor playing Robert was billed alphabetically - and that the producers petitioned to get Susan Browning moved from the featured to the leading category, where they expected to get nominations for other performers.

sf is right - the starting point for Tony eligibility is the first night billing. However there have been quite a few exceptions to that - and producers can request (though not insist) that actors are sometimes considered in categories which run counter to their billing.  This has happened a few times - and some make little sense. For example, in the original 1987 production of 'Fences' Mary Alice won Best Featured Actress for playing Rose, while in the 2010 revival Viola Davis won Best Leading Actress for the same role (she then won the Supporting Actress Oscar for the film version!).  Likewise Geraldine Page was nominated as Best Leading Actress for playing Madame Arcardi in Blithe Spirit (1987) whilst Angela Lansbury won the Best Featured Actress Tony for the same role in 2009. No consistency at all.

Company was even more complicated. The entire cast, excluding covers, was billed above the title - though in varying different sized fonts. Dean Jones who created the part of Bobby, had top billing - and in the largest type - but he only stayed with the production for a few weeks after in opened - so his replacement Larry Kert was actually nominated for the Tony as Best Leading Actor.  Elaine Stritch - who arguably had second billing - at the end with an and and in slightly larger font from most for the cast - was considered Best Leading Actress along with Susan Browning (April) - who was way down the cast list.  Barbara Barrie - playing Sarah - was billed immediately below Jones/Kert and the same size as Stritch - and yet was in the Featured Actress Category.  All most confusing (I was trying to find a photo of the billing which could post - but have failed).

Perhaps also worth noting that Sheila Gish won Best Supporting Performance in a Musical at the 1996 Olivier Awards for playing Joanne in the Donmar production. She was up against Sophie Thompson as Amy. So there is precedent for Joanne as supporting and I can't see that there's any way the producers would want to have Rosalie Craig and Patti LuPone up against each other in the leading actress category this year.

Finally got the chance to see this last week and absolutely loved it. I wasn't too sure whether I would or not before going in mainly due to the amount people were raving about it but it exceeded expectations. Really hoping I can fit in another trip but sit further back (I was row b of stalls) and be able to take everything in.

^ I was thinking of that just recently. Would love to pick up a copy when I see the final show!