Company: Being Alive.

Reasons why I am still up at 1AM: Raul Esparza as the 35-year-old perpetual bachelor Bobby in Sondheim's Company. I thought Bobby was somewhat of an awkward role to play because while he is the main character, the storyline runs around him in fringes. But Esparza plays this role beautifully. 

Here he realizes, following a conversation with an older married friend who propositions an affair, that he wants, needs someone he can take care of. Relationships, while they aren't perfect, are part of "Being Alive", a sentiment echoed by his married friends but one Bobby only realizes at the end of the musical with this song.

 

Raul Esparza as Bobby has the most endearing and earnest expression throughout the musical. He watches his married friends' troubles with a semi-entertained look on his face, because these problems don't apply to him and hey, he doesn't want to be married that much, and yet...