COMPANY - Closing Performance Stories — Page 7

Another little moment I noticed and loved was when Angel blew Raul a kiss after she she had left the stage during their first scene together. It was so small but adorable.

I didn't take many, because I wanted to just enjoy the moment without getting too caught up in the photography. The ones I did take aren't great, because I wanted to get them quickly, but here they are anyway. My apologies for stretching the page.

Raúl's last bow:



Cast bows:

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I was there too. Every member of the cast was really in the zone. It was one of the most moving pieces of theater I have seen in some time. It's funny, have always enjoyed the music of Company and thought the show was really good when I saw it the first time but there was something about yesterday's performance that moved me more than I expected it to. I guess it was a combination of being a really emotional closing performace and me truly realizing recently that I am in the same position as Bobby, looking at all their happily paired friends and have them ask me the same questions and make the same comments they do. I have always thought the highest compliment someone in the theatrical field can say about a show is that it made them remember why they want to do theater and I know I walked away from this show remembering.

Yay for them selling up to 83.7% in their last week. Too bad people couldn't have come out sooner to support it though.

Third row mezzanine, stage right aisle of the center section. Perfect view, especially for this show.

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Updated On: 7/2/07 at 04:01 PM

and Em, you were absolutely right about the show being beautiful from the front mezz. As much as I loved the front box it was perfect from there. A couple of times I really felt like they were looking right at me, so selfish, but especially during Kelly and Raul's scene.

I think Heather had her baby in October or November, not positive.

I knew at the very beginning that that was where I wanted to be when I saw Bobby step into the light for the last time. At first I was bummed out that I couldn't see facial expressions as well as you can from the orchestra, but in the end, I know it was the right decision. My last memory of Bobby blowing out his candles is perfect.

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The lighting is absolutely gorgeous from above. I hadn't sat in the mezzanine for a while, and sitting there yesterday, I felt like I was seeing a different show. I had completely forgotten how different everything looks from that angle. Sitting in the front row, you would never know the people sitting in the mezz are seeing something so drastically different.

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Updated On: 7/2/07 at 04:54 PM

Now do I go see Company in Australia when I'm there?

The performance after the Tonys was so powerful, I think, because it was normal one minute, but then totally explosive and completely unique the next. Yesterday didn't really have one singular high point like that; the entire performance was emotionally charged. I'm hesitant to use this word, because it has such a negative connotation, but there did sort of seem to be an anxious kind of tension in the room -- in the best way possible, though. It was this strange combination, I think, of sadness and excitement, that seemed to form the kind of appreciation the show deserved.

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Updated On: 7/2/07 at 05:34 PM

Yeah, definitely. And actually I think that the excitement and anxiety was prevalent in the audience as well. Just things like the extensive applause at his entrance, after songs, after intermission, and before he even finished Being Alive - the audience just wanted to express their appreciation at every possible moment, it seemed. With a closing performance, that's expected, but the after Tony thing was just so spontaneous

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Yeah Sondheim_Geek, when he stopped I broke down as well and then after that his voice seemed more powerful then I had ever heard before.