Company Original Broadway Cast Rarity
Broadway/national tour: Lysistrata Jones (Lysistrata), Wicked (Glinda), Xanadu (Euterpe). Off-Broadway: Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare in the Park); Fly by Night (Playwrights Horizons); Lady Be Good! Almost Broadway: Nerds (Sally). TV: recurring roles on “Chicago Med” (Dr. Nina Shore), “Royal Pains” (Ava). Proud alumna of the Syracuse University Drama department. Huge thanks to Abrams and Disney for making this lifelong dream come true.
So much love to Mom and Dad. This one is for Colin, the best husband a princess could ever dream up.
Original Broadway playbillMusicLyricsStephen SondheimBookProductions721995 Broadway1995 West End revival20022006 Broadway revival132018 West End revivalAwards2019Company is a 1970 with music and lyrics by and book. The original production was nominated for a record-setting fourteen and won six.Originally titled Threes, its plot revolves around Robert (a single man unable to commit fully to a steady relationship, let alone marriage), the five married couples who are his best friends, and his three girlfriends. Unlike most, which follow a clearly delineated plot, Company is a composed of short, presented in no particular chronological order, linked by a celebration for Robert's 35th birthday.Company was among the first musicals to deal with adult themes and relationships. As Sondheim puts it, 'Broadway theater has been for many years supported by upper-middle-class people with upper-middle-class problems.
These people really want to escape that world when they go to the theatre, and then here we are with Company talking about how we're going to bring it right back in their faces.' . ^The 'Overture' and 'Entr'acte' were part of the original Broadway Production. (Source: Original Official 'Company' Vocal Score). Played in most productions by the actor who plays Susan or Jenny. In the 1990s, 'Marry Me a Little' was restored permanently to close Act I and added to the 1995 and 2006 revivals, it is also included in the official composer's edition of the vocal selections, published in 1996 ( ). Added in for the 1995 Broadway Revival.
The dance number 'Tick-Tock' (arranged by ) was abridged for the first Broadway revival, and afterwards deleted entirely from the score.However, it has since been restored in some productions (such as the 2004 Reprise! Production in Los Angeles and the 2011 New York Philharmonic staging). The song 'Multitude of Amys' was the original finale but was cut due to major structural changes in the script. 'Marry Me a Little' was started as a replacement but subsequently moved to the end of the first act.
'Happily Ever After' was used as the finale for the first few performances, before being replaced by 'Being Alive'.References Notes. PBS.com, Broadway: the American Musical, accessed August 16, 2011. Broadway: the American musical, episode 5: 'Tradition (1957–1979),' 2004. Zadan, Craig. Sondheim & Co.
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( interview; podcast.). Downstage Center First aired November 24, 2006. Retrieved on February 4, 2007. ( interview; MP3 podcast.)Further reading. Ilson, Carol. Harold Prince: A Director's Journey (2004), Limelight Editions,.
Prince, Harold. Contradictions: Notes on twenty-six years in the theater (1974), Todd, Mead,.
Rich, Frank. The Theater Art of Boris Aron son (1987), Knopf. Mandelbrot, Ken. A Chorus Line and the Musicals of Michael Bennett (1990), St Martins Press,.External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to. at the. on, documentary about the making of the original cast recording.
on, filmed stage revival starring Adrian Lester. on, filmed stage revival starring Raul Esparza.
Chicago Broadway Original Cast
on, filmed stage revival starring Neil Patrick Harris. recordings at CastAlbums.org.