The production is directed by Lonny Price and accompanied by the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Paul Gemignani.
It also stars Martha Plimpton, Stephen Colbert, Jill Paice, Craig Bierko, Jennifer Laura Thompson, Jon Cryer, Katie Finneran, Aaron Lazar, Patti LuPone, Jim Walton, Christina Hendricks, Anika Noni Rose, and Chryssie Whitehead.
[1][2] Robert is a well-liked single man living in New York City, whose friends are all married or engaged couples.
What follows is a series of disconnected vignettes in no apparent order, each featuring Robert during a visit with one of the couples or alone with a girlfriend.
Robert meets his three girlfriends in a small park on three separate occasions, as Marta sings of the city ("Another Hundred People").
Robert, the best man, and Paul watch as Amy complains and self-destructs over every petty thing she can possibly think of and finally calls off the wedding ("Getting Married Today").
Susan takes Marta inside to make lunch, and Peter asks Robert if he has ever had a homosexual experience.
When Larry leaves to pay the check, Joanne bluntly invites Robert to begin an affair with her, assuring him that she will "take care of him".
The opening party resets a final time; Robert's friends have waited two hours, with still no sign of him.
At last, they all prepare to leave, expressing a new hopefulness about their absent friend's chances for loving fulfillment, and wishing him a happy birthday, wherever he may be.