Original Broadway Cast of Company & Dean Jones
Original Broadway Cast of Company & Elaine Stritch
Charles Kimbrough, George Coe & Charles Braswell
Donna McKechnie, Susan Browning & Pamela Myers
Original Broadway Cast of Company & Charles Braswell & John Cunningham & Steve Elmore & George Coe & Charles Kimbrough
Dean Jones
Pamela Myers
Beth Howland, Steve Elmore & Teri Ralston
Original Broadway Cast of Company
Original Broadway Cast of Company & & Teri Ralston & Merle Louise & & Elaine Stritch
Dean Jones & Susan Browning
Elaine Stritch
Original Broadway Cast of Company & Dean Jones
Original Broadway Cast of Company
The opening song of Sondheim’s 1970s musical Company introduces the main character, Bobby, the five married couples he is friends with, and his three girlfriends.
Company is a concept musical, which tells the story of Bobby’s attempt to understand marriage via a non-linear narrative. It is unclear...
[VOCAL GROUP]
Bobby, Bobby, Bobby, Bobby
Bobby (Bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah)
Bobby, Bobby, Bobby, Bobby
Bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah
Bobby, Bobby, Bobby, Bobby
Bobby (Bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah)
Bobby, Bobby (Bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah)
Bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah
Bobby, Bobby, Bobby, Bobby
Bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah
Bobby
[JENNY]
Bobby
[PETER]
Bobby
[AMY]
Bobby baby
[PAUL]
Bobby bubi
[JOANNE]
Robby
[SUSAN]
Robert, darling
[DAVID, JENNY, LARRY, AMY]
Bobby Bobby
We've been trying Bobby
To call you Bobby baby
[PAUL]
Bobby bubi
[SARAH, HARRY, LARRY, JOANNE]
Angel Bob
I've got something Rob-o
To tell you Bobby, love
[SUSAN]
Bobby, honey
[AMY & PAUL, LARRY, SARAH, HARRY]
Bobby Bobby
We've been Angel
Trying Bobby
[AMY & PAUL, JOANNE, PETER, HARRY]
To reach you Darling Bobby baby
All day Bobby
[SUSAN]
Robert
[DAVID & JENNY, JOANNE, PETER]
The kids Robby
Were asking Bob-o
[LARRY & JOANNE, DAVID & JENNY, AMY, SARAH & HARRY]
Bobby Bobby
There was Sweetheart
Something Bobby
[LARRY & JOANNE, SUSAN, PAUL]
We wanted Sugar
To say Bobby bubi
[PETER, DAVID & JENNY]
What have you been up to, kiddo? Your line was busy
[AMY, PAUL, PETER & SUSAN]
Bobby
[HARRY]
Fella
[AMY, PAUL, PETER & SUSAN]
Bobby
[SARAH]
Sweetie
[AMY, PAUL, HARRY, SARAH, PETER & SUSAN]
How have you been?
[DAVID, JENNY, JOANNE & LARRY]
Stop by on your way home
[AMY & PAUL, HARRY, SARAH, PETER & SUSAN]
Seems like weeks Bobby
Since we talked to you! We've been thinking of you!
[DAVID, JENNY, JOANNE & LARRY]
Drop by anytime
[AMY & PAUL]
Bobby, there's a concert on Tuesday
[DAVID & JENNY]
Hank and Mary get into town tomorrow
[PETER & SUSAN]
How about some Scrabble on Sunday?
[HARRY & SARAH]
Why don't we all go to the beach
[JOANNE & LARRY, HARRY & SARAH, JENNY, PETER]
Bob, we're having Next weekend? Bobby
People in Bobby
[JOANNE & LARRY, AMY, HARRY]
Saturday night Bobby baby Robby
[DAVID & JENNY, SARAH, PAUL]
Whatcha doing Angel
Thursday? Bobby bubi
[HARRY & SARAH, AMY, LARRY, SUSAN]
Time we got Bobby
Together Bobby
Is Wednesday alright? Bobby, honey
[JOANNE]
Rob-o
[AMY & PAUL, PETER, PETER & JOANNE]
Eight o'clock Bobby fella
On Monday Bobby baby
[COUPLES]
Bobby, come on over for dinner!
We'll be so glad to see you!
Bobby, come on over for dinner!
Just be the three of us
Only the three of us!
We love you!
[ROBERT]
Phone rings
Door chimes
In comes company!
No strings
Good times
Room hums, company!
Late nights
Quick bites
Party games
Deep talks
Long walks
Telephone calls
Thoughts shared
Souls bared
Private names
All those
Photos
Up on the walls
"With love..."
With love filling the days
With love seventy ways
"To Bobby with love"
From all those
Good and crazy people, my friends
Those good and crazy people, my married friends!
And that's what it's all about, isn't it?
That's what it's really about
Really about!
[APRIL]
Bobby
[KATHY]
Bobby
[MARTA]
Bobby baby
[PAUL]
Bobby bubi
[JOANNE]
Robby
[SUSAN]
Robert, darling
[SARAH, LARRY, AMY, JENNY]
Angel Bobby
Will you do me Bobby
A favor? Bobby baby
[ROBERT, PAUL]
Name it, Sarah Bobby bubi
[PETER, HARRY, LARRY, KATHY]
Listen pal Bob
I'd like your Rob-o
Opinion Bobby, love
[ROBERT, MARTA]
Try me, Peter Bobby, honey
[LARRY & AMY, APRIL & PAUL, SARAH, MARTA & HARRY]
Bobby Bobby
There's a Angel
Problem Bobby
[LARRY & AMY, JOANNE, KATHY & PETER]
I need Darling
Your advice Bobby, baby
[ROBERT, APRIL, MARTA & KATHY, DAVID & JENNY, SARAH & PETER]
Amy, can
I call you back Just half an hour
Tomorrow? Honey Bobby
[DAVID & JENNY, AMY, JOANNE & HARRY, SUSAN]
If you'd Sweetheart
Visit Bobby
The kids Sugar
[DAVID & JENNY, PAUL & MARTA]
One or twice Bobby bubi
[ROBERT, APRIL, MARTA & KATHY]
Jenny, I could take them to the What's happened to you?
[ROBERT, JENNY, APRIL, MARTA & KATHY, HUSBANDS]
Zoo on Friday Bobby, Bobby Fella, kiddo
[JENNY, APRIL, MARTA, KATHY & HUSBANDS]
Where have you been?
[ROBERT, HARRY, SARAH, PETER & SUSAN]
Susan, love, I'll make it after Stop by
Seven if I can On your way home
[WIVES, APRIL, MARTA, KATHY & HUSBANDS]
Bobby, dear Bobby
I don't mean to pry We've been thinking of you!
[ROBERT, PAUL, AMY, JOANNE, LARRY, DAVID & JENNY]
Sorry, Paul, I made a date with Drop by
Larry and Joanne Any time
[WIVES]
Bobby, dear, it's none of our business
[HUSBANDS]
Lookit, pal, I have to work Thursday evening
[WIVES]
Darling, you've been looking peculiar
[HUSBANDS]
Bobby boy, you know how I hate the opera
[WIVES, ROBERT]
Funny thing Harry
Your name came up David
Only last night Katherine, April
[APRIL, KATHY & MARTA, ROBERT]
I shouldn't Marta
Say this, but Listen, people
[WIVES, HUSBANDS]
Bobby, we've been worried Bobby, Bobby
You sure you're all right? Bobby, baby, Bobby, bubi
[APRIL, KATHY & MARTA, HUSBANDS]
Did I do something wrong? Bobby, fella, Bobby, Bobby
[ALL except ROBERT]
Bobby, come on over for dinner!
We'll be so glad to see you!
Bobby, come on over for dinner!
Just be the three of us
Only the three of us
We love you!
[ALL]
Phone rings
Door chimes
In comes company!
No strings
Good times
Just chums, company!
Late nights
Quick bites
Party games
Deep talks
Long walks
Telephone calls
Thoughts shared
Souls bared
Private names
All those
Photos
Up on the walls
"With love..."
With love filling the days
With love seventy ways
"To Bobby, with love"
From all these
Good and crazy people, your/my friends
These good and crazy people, your/my married friends!
And that's what it's all about, isn't it?
That's what it's really about, isn't it?
That's what it's really about
Really about!
[ROBERT, HUSBANDS]
You I love and you I love and Isn't it? Isn't it?
You and you I love and you I love Isn't it? Isn't it?
[ROBERT, HUSBANDS, APRIL, KATHY, MARTA & WIVES]
And you I love and you and Isn't it? Isn't it? Love!
You I love I love Isn't it? Isn't it?
[ALL]
Company! Company!
Company! Lots of company!
Years of company!
Love is company!
Company!
Company was written by Stephen Sondheim.
Company was produced by Thomas Z. Shepard.
Original Broadway Cast of Company released Company on Wed May 13 1970.
From Sondheim’s Finishing the Hat:
Here I was again .. faced with the problem of writing an opening number which would not only set the theme and tone and introduce the characters but would also, with Hal [Prince]’s insistent urging, be called “Company,” not incidentally the title of the show. I kn...