Jack, Frank and Susie on the hotel balcony

Frank is worried that Jack will ruin the group.

If Jack and Susie consumate their relationship, Jack will run away. His pattern is to run when faced with intimate relationships.

Susie is also a damaged person, she constantly pushes away the people in her life.

As a performer I think Frank is regreting the fact that he never gets to be in the audience with his wife, he is always doing the entertaining. He regrets the life he has chosen. The is no connection between Frank and Susie. He is thoughtful and sad, not jealous. When he speaks of his wife it seems so sad, he is not there for her.

My dad was a musician and he always played New Year's Eve. We never got to celebrate it together.

TFBB is about the sacrifices these people have made and was it worth it.

Interesting scene, I agree it could be interpreted in many ways. Jealousy over Suzie? maybe a shade of it. Frank regretting that he can't do something more enduring with their music - like, even commercial recordings - and isn't able to spend time with his family over some holidays? Yes (those two are kind of linked: if they had broken into the business as original artists with some success, or well paid studio musicians, then they would earn more and wouldn't have to do so many holiday shows). Jealousy over their music and a budding sense that things are about to change? yes, probably.

When it comes to rivalry for the audience's attention and the sense of being taken for granted...I once read an interview with Paul Simon - by Jon Landau, early seventies - where he was talking of his partnership with Art Garfunkel and how the duo - in many ways a kind of "artistic brotherhood" and of course phenomenally successful - broke up at the turn of the seventies. There was a lot of struggle and anger during the recording of the Bridge Over Troubled Water album, though it became their crowning, iconic statement, and Paul recalled how he'd been feeling a grudge on the tours in early 1970, when they played to packed audiences and Art would bow to the jubilant people after the title ballad, a song that exposed his luminous vocals and touched everybody (and where Paul's guitar is not much around): "People would rise to their feet, stomp and cheer as he reached the final high note and I'd stand in the shadow and think 'Man, that's my song. Thank you very much. I wrote that song.' It's not a generous feeling and I have to say, a year earlier I wouldn't have felt like that." That's just the kind of unity turned sour, suppressed rivalry that comes up in Baker Boys

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