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
Company is a concept musical, meaning that the songs comment on the topic (here, marriage) rather than occurring at emotional high points in the storyline. Here, character Joanne sings a song that comments ironically on an on-stage fight scene between married couple Sarah and Harry. Joanne claims th...
[SARAH, spoken]
Harry?
[HARRY, spoken]
Uh?
[SARAH, spoken]
Do you wanna stand there?
[HARRY, spoken]
Okay, I'm standing here. Now what?
[SARAH, spoken]
Well, darling, just come at me.
[HARRY, spoken]
Okay.
[JOANNE]
It's the little things you do together
Do together
Do together
That make perfect relationships
The hobbies you pursue together
Savings you accrue together
Looks you misconstrue together
That make marriage a joy
Mm-hm...
[HARRY, spoken]
Well, I could have blocked that.
[SARAH, spoken]
No, that can't be blocked.
[HARRY, spoken]
You wanna do it again?
[SARAH, spoken]
Okay.
[HARRY, spoken]
I'll come at you again.
[SARAH, spoken]
Okay.
[JOANNE]
It's the little things you share together
Swear together
Wear together
That make perfect relationships
The concerts you enjoy together
Neighbors you annoy together
Children you destroy together
That keep marriage intact
It's not so hard to be married
When two maneuver as one
It's not so hard to be married
And Jesus Christ, is it fun
It's sharing little winks together
Drinks together
Kinks together
That make marriage a joy
The bargains that you shop together
Cigarettes you stop together
Clothing that you swap together
That make perfect relationships
Uh-huh...
Mm-hm...
[SARAH, spoken]
Uncle?
[HARRY, spoken]
Uncle your ass!
[ALL]
It's not talk of God and the decade ahead that
Allows you to get through the worst
It's "I do" and "You don't" and "Nobody said that"
And "Who brought the subject up first?"
It's the little things
The little little little little little things
The little ways you try together—
Cry together—
Lie together—
That make perfect relationships
Becoming a cliché together
Growing old and gray together
[JOANNE]
Withering away together
[GROUP]
That makes marriage a joy
[MEN]
It's not so hard to be married
[WOMEN]
It's much the simplest of crimes
[MEN]
It's not so hard to be married
[JOANNE]
I've done it three or four times
[JENNY]
It's people that you hate together
[PAUL & AMY]
Bait together
[PETER & SUSAN]
Date together
[GROUP]
That make marriage a joy
[DAVID]
It's things like using force together
[LARRY]
Shouting till you're hoarse together
[JOANNE]
Getting a divorce together
[GROUP]
That make perfect relationships
Uh-huh...
Kiss, kiss...
Mm-hm
The Little Things You Do Together was written by Stephen Sondheim.
The Little Things You Do Together was produced by Thomas Z. Shepard.
Original Broadway Cast of Company released The Little Things You Do Together on Wed May 13 1970.
From Sondheim’s Finishing the Hat:
The glibness of this lyric, which is by turns amusing and irritating (at least to me) is partly due to its being a list song … but also due to another, subtler problem … making the point over and over with the same irony renders the lyric not only monotonous but c...