COMPANY, One Year After Shutdown

[CT2NYC]

Posted: 3/12/21 at 11:58am

“I’m hopeful that in the next couple of months the governor will give us the green light that Fall is possible,” says Company producer Chris Harper, “that around April or May we’ll have clarity as to when Broadway will be able to reopen with full capacity. That’s when we would announce tickets going back on sale.” The plan, Harper says, is to bring Company back in the fall, though Spring 2022 remains a possibility as well."

Broadway’s ‘Company’ A Year Later: The Cast Chronicles Covid Shutdown – Deadline

[fosterfan2]

Posted: 3/12/21 at 6:30pm

Great news! Looks like the whole cast is returning too,although I do wonder about Patti LuPone. I hope she returns.

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 3/12/21 at 6:53pm

Love this cast and this creative team. This great article/chronicle gets me much more confident that this will finally, officially open in the upcoming season. Phone rings, door chimes, BACK comes Company!

[ljay889]

Posted: 3/12/21 at 7:40pm

I am so ready for this fabulous production's return. 

I'm also confident with all of this time off, Lenk has had time to work on any vocal issues some found with her performance. 

[SouthernCakes]

Posted: 3/12/21 at 9:49pm

Glad I saw it and highly recommend!!! So good! I hope the leading lady has figured out the vocals. But other than that loved it!!

[ACL2006]

Posted: 3/12/21 at 10:12pm

LuPone has continued to talk about the show in interviews, so I'd assume she's returning. As long as the assumption is that shows will restart in a staggered way, Company may reopen in September or even as late as December. Who knows what the order of reopening will be.

[greensgreens]

Posted: 3/12/21 at 11:36pm

LuPone just landed a co-lead in a new tv show. I think the clock is ticking on her availability...

[darquegk]

Posted: 3/12/21 at 11:47pm

She’s twenty years too young, but I can picture Kathryn Hahn doing a killer Joanne someday.

[brettarnett]

Posted: 3/13/21 at 12:21am

I do wonder about Lupone. 

Depending on how long the series is, she could most definitely film in between now and a fall opening. Especially if it's 5 or so episodes.

[jpbran]

Posted: 3/13/21 at 12:45am

darquegk said: "She’s twenty years too young, but I can picture Kathryn Hahn doing a killer Joanne someday."

I don’t think Joanne is necessarily has to be 70-ish (and usually isn’t?), a la Lupone. Character seems to be written like she’s older/more jaded than Bobby(ie) but not by that much. More like how a 40- or 50-something relates to a 35-yo. Just checked and Stritch was only 45/46!

Seems like Hahn is just about perfect (or maybe will be in a couple of years.)

Updated On: 3/13/21 at 12:45 AM

[binau]

Posted: 3/13/21 at 7:42am

Unless there is a true scheduling conflict it’s hard to believe Patti could possibly want out of the project given the positive notices - if energy is a concern they could even try to reduce some of the ensemble stage time? I wonder if her comments are just Patti being Patti and speaking some of her honest thoughts/mind but too early to conclude anything yet.

Not as much a box office draw but I wonder if Donna Murphy would be a good substitute

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 3/13/21 at 9:19am

This was the last show I saw before the shutdown, and the first show I hope to see when everything returns. I would pay top dollar just to see Jennifer Simard again.

[BJR]

Posted: 3/13/21 at 12:10pm

Patti's show is just a pilot. Conflicts at this point are cart before horse.

If she doesn't come back, it'll be because she had to be talked into doing another musical in the first place and now she's a couple years older and perhaps (by her own admission) a little tired. And I'd add, little to prove.

All that said, I really really hope she does. I had tickets the week following shut down and I'd never forgive myself for missing her.

[GiantsInTheSky2]

Posted: 3/14/21 at 11:16pm

On a recent Skype interview with the cast (per a cast member’s IG story) there was a quick second of Patti talking about the current “downward” slope of her career, which I thought to be interesting. No idea of the full context in regards to that second bit, but maybe it could be related to the options/commitments of this project.

[CT2NYC]

Posted: 3/20/21 at 1:16am

Part 2:

Broadway’s ‘Company’ During Covid Shutdown, Part 2: An Oral History – Deadline

[unclevictor]

Posted: 3/20/21 at 12:28pm

Read part 2. I found this the most hilarious and infuriating quote from Patti Lupone: “ I went and picked up my clothes from a costume house, my personal clothes, and they said they didn’t know whether they could stay open. And I thought, oh my god, the costume houses, the scenic shops, everybody is affected.”

Duh everyone is affected!! Is she so self absorbed that she can’t see that the pandemic affects all aspects of the theatre? Not just the actors? Get a clue patti.

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 3/20/21 at 12:33pm

This version of the show is truly the star imo, regardless of who comes back. 

[binau]

Posted: 3/20/21 at 1:52pm

Patti Lupone: 

Early on, the cast wanted to run lines on Zoom, and I thought, no, not without the director, that is a very bad idea, and I expressed myself. I think a couple of cast members weren’t too happy with what I was saying. But what would’ve been the point in running lines if 10 months later we’re going to have to start all over again?

So I’ve sort of stayed away from the cast Zooms because it depressed me, and it depressed me because I hardly know this company. Even though we went through the rehearsal process, we don’t really know each other. I wasn’t at the place where these Zoom things had anything to offer, and it depressed me. I thought I had nothing to contribute. I’m just standing there, and everybody’s sitting there and listening, and I just don’t have anything to contribute. So I sort of backed away from it. I think some of them kept it up, played games and stuff like that, but you know, I have at least 30 years on these kids, 30 years of experience. I was too old for Mama Rose — I used to call myself Grandma Rose — and now I’m way too old for Joanne. I’ll meet them all when we work together again on this show, if that happens.

[KFC1991]

Posted: 3/20/21 at 2:51pm

unclevictor said: "Read part 2. I found this the most hilarious and infuriating quote from Patti Lupone: “ I went and picked up my clothes from a costume house, my personal clothes, and they said they didn’t know whether they could stay open. And I thought, oh my god, the costume houses, the scenic shops, everybody is affected.”

Duh everyone is affected!! Is she so self absorbed that she can’t see that the pandemic affects all aspects of the theatre? Not just the actors? Get a clue patti. "

Surprised anyone would find this objectionable. Last year we all had to contend with what being in a pandemic meant. None of us knew what that's like or what it was going to mean. The reality of  being in a pandemic hit us all in different ways and at different times. Hilarious and infuriating? I just don't see it. 

[ACL2006]

Posted: 3/20/21 at 3:13pm

If LuPone doesn't return with the show, who else would be ideal to play her now?

[binau]

Posted: 3/20/21 at 3:33pm

Donna Murphy!!! 

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Posted: 3/20/21 at 4:47pm

Huh... kinda surprised you didn't go with Bernadette.

[South Florida]

Posted: 3/20/21 at 5:27pm

This is risky (looking behind me) Patti Lupone is too old.

[fosterfan2]

Posted: 3/20/21 at 5:31pm

qolbinau said: "Donna Murphy!!!"

I like her,but I think Christine Baranski would be good. She's really funny.

[GiantsInTheSky2]

Posted: 3/20/21 at 10:03pm

I’m guessing Patti has changed her mind on the Zoom calls, since she was on one of the weekly cast Zoom meetings last week.