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TV Exclusive: COMPANY Is What It's Really About at Broadway Sessions!
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Nov 4, 2022
This past Thursday Broadway Sessions celebrated the 5th birthday of our beloved and uber-talented musical director, Joshua Stephen Kartes. Joshua had but one birthday wish- he wanted to blow out his candles like 'Bobby' in Sondheim's masterpiece, Company. So that's exactly what we gave him!
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Or they find each other in the crowded streets and the guarded parks
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By the rusty fountain and the dusty trees with the battered barks
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And they walk together past upholstered walls with the crude remarks And they meet at parties to the friends of friends who they never know
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Do I pick you up or should I meet you there? We shall let it go
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Did you get my message? Cause I looked in vain Can we see each other Tuesday if it doesn't rain
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Look, I'll call you in the morning Or my servants will explain
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And another hundred people just got off the train Everything's different
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Nothing's changed Only, maybe, slightly rearranged
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You're sorry, grateful, regretful, happy Why look for answers where none occur
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You always are what you always were Which has nothing to do with, all to do with her
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We won't have to give up a thing. We'll stay where we are, right
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Okay then, I'm ready. I'm ready now. Marry me a little, love me just enough
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Warm and sweet and easy, just the simple stuff Keep a tender distance so we'll both be free
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That's the way it ought to be Knock, knock, is anybody there
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Knock knock it really isn fair Look knock I working on my charts
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Knock, knock, there's zombies in my arms Oh, that sweet affection, what is wrong
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Well, who's connection? How long, oh lord, how long? I got a chick for you, wait till you meet her
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I got a chick for you, boy, boy. She's into all those exotic mystiques, the Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques
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Here she knows more than 75. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive
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And I got a girl for you Wait till you meet her
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And I got a girl for you, boy, oh boy Boy, to be in your shoes
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What I wouldn't give I mean the freedom to go out and live
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And that's the settling down You know that Marriage may be where it's been
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But it's not where it's at Oh shit, tell me all about it
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There's this day, tragedy of life, husband yoked to wife. The heart seems torn and feels dead, this dreadful day. Amy
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Yeah. Amy, uh, uh, Paul can't find some things. They're on the dresser
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Oh, okay, thank you for that. Right next to my suicide note. Listen, everybody, look, I don't know what you're waiting for
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A wedding? What's a wedding? It's a prehistoric ritual where everybody promises to give a wedding for everyone, which is probably the most terrifying word I ever heard of
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which is followed by a honeymoon where suddenly he'll realize he's saddled with a nun and want to kill me, which he should
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Thank you all, but I'm not getting married. Don tell Paul I not getting married You been grand I not getting married Don you stand there I not getting married But I not getting married today Go can you go Why is nobody listening
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Goodbye, go and cry at another person's wake. If you're quick for a kick, you can pick up a christening
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But please, on my knees, there's a human life at stake. And so we'll raise another table
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And raise our glasses one more time. There's a face at the window
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And I ain't never, never saying goodbye And it's one by one
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Only the blue will die on They're only flying too close to the sun
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Crying for nothing Never happened to my point It was exciting at the start
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Now we're just starting the show And no one told me where to go
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I've been off stage for far too long It's ages since I've had a song
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This is one unhappy demon The producers did deceive me There is nothing I can see from my heart
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I'm a happy to my part. You're a very special girl, not just overnight
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You're a very special girl, even though you're right. Well, not just because you're bright
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You're a very special girl Jen Let's sing your own albums Jen
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Mistress Jen Thank you Thank you Mistress Jen Somebody hold me too close
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Somebody force me to care. Somebody make me come through. I'll always be there as frightened as you of being alive
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Being alive. Being alive Being alive
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Someone you have to let in Someone whose feelings you spare Someone who, like it or not
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Will want you to share A little, a lot Of being alive
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Make me alive Another chance to disapprove
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Another brilliant singer Another reason not to move Another vodka stinger
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I'll drink to that So here's to the girls in the go
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Everybody tries Look into their eyes And you'll see what they know
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Everybody dies A toast to that invincible bunch The dinosaur surviving the crunch
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Let's hear it for the ladies who lunch Everybody dies Rise Rise, rise, rise, rise, rise, rise, rise
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