Since the musical is set in New York in the 1970s, Company includes some time- and place-specific references. It will be the actors' job to understand the references well enough to make them make sense in a more or less contemporary setting. Below are a list of terms and concepts with which you'll want to be familiar and the pages on which they occur. Happy hunting!
Sazerac slings (47) "[M]y service will explain" (51) Shaker Heights (51) The Cape (53) Fourteenth Street (56) Eliza on the ice (61) Bellevue (63) The Seagram's Building (80) Goliath (94) The East River (100) "Wild-ass kids with probing minds rebelling against all the crap." (102) "[G]o off and ball" (103) "We already gave" (104) Ann Miller (105) The red shoes (105) Vodka stinger (105) Pinter play (106) Mahler (106) Life Magazine (107) Kraft-Ebbing case history (108) Harold Teen (110)