Does she have to leave? Couldn't she stay? "Okay", says April. "Oh, God", says Robert. Susan and Peter are back from Mexico, where they so enjoyed getting their divorce they're now living together. At a discotheque, while Larry wiggles on the floor, Joanne gets drunk and attracts the attention of a group of bitchy onlookers. She proposes a toast to them: here's to 'The Ladies Who Lunch' and their empty lives. She also propositions Robert, but what would be the point. He's seen all these marriages, and what do you get for it? But then he understands what his friends already know: part of 'Being Alive' is committing yourself to somebody. That's what it's really about, isn't it? The five crazy couples leave, Robert stands alone and begins again (Finale). With friends like these ... MUSICAL NUMBERS Act I 1. “Company” — Robert and Company 2. “The Little Things You Do Together” — Joanne and Couples 3. “Sorry-Grateful” — Harry, David and Larry 4. “You Could Drive a Person Crazy” — Kathy, April and Marta 5. “Have I Got a Girl for You” — Larry, Peter, Paul, David, Harry 6. “Someone Is Waiting” — Robert 7. “Another Hundred People” — Marta 8. “Getting Married Today” — Amy, Paul, Choirgirl, and Company 9. “Marry Me a Little” — Robert Act II 10. “Side by Side by Side”/”What Would We Do without You?” — Robert and Couples 11. “Poor Baby” — Sarah, Jenny, Susan, Amy, Joanne 12. “Have I Got a Girl for You” (Reprise) - Larry, Peter, Paul, David, Harry 13. “Tick-Tock” — Kathy (Instrumental) 14. “Barcelona” — Robert and April 15. “The Ladies Who Lunch” — Joanne 16. “Being Alive” — Robert 17. “Finale Ultimo (Company)” — Robert and Company CHARACTERS • ROBERT - A middle-class male who's thirty-five years old, which is no age to be unmarried. • SARAH - A married woman who's trying to lose weight and talks about food a lot. She has taken up karate, which is no substitute. • HARRY - Sarah's husband, a struggling! teetotaller since his arrest for Driving While Intoxicated. • SUSAN - A southern belle and a wonderful wife. • PETER - Susan's ideal Ivy League husband. • JENNY - Very middle-class, very conservative. • DAVID - Very middle-class, very modish. • AMY - A bride-to-be who's been living in sin and in analysis for years. • PAUL - Amy's long-standing partner. • JOANNE - A generous but sharp-tongued broad whose drunken scorn for others is matched only by her self-contempt. • LARRY - Joanne's husband. • APRIL - A girlfriend of Robert's, an air hostess from Shaker Heights who came to live in Radio City because she thought it was a city near New York, not actually in it. • KATHY - A girlfriend of Robert's, a New Yorker who's skipping town to go and find rural
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