Company DVD came today!!!!

#1

Company DVD came today!!!!

Posted: 3/25/08 at 3:21pm

I'm so excited to finally be holding it in my hands. Sadly there is no insert, but that doesn't really matter I guess. I cant wait to watch it again, as well as the special features.

#2

re: Company DVD came today!!!!

Posted: 3/25/08 at 3:27pm

If you can, please let me know what you think about the special features. I recorded the program, but I would consider buying the DVD if the extras make it worthwile.

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#3

re: Company DVD came today!!!!

Posted: 3/25/08 at 3:30pm

I have no idea what's going on with mine. I haven't been notified by PBS either way. I don't understand how they're deciding which ones are shipping now and which ones aren't shipping until May, though.

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#4

re: Company DVD came today!!!!

Posted: 3/25/08 at 4:12pm

I got an email and a letter saying mine is not being sent until May. I pre ordered it before the original broadcast....oh well I have to wait a couple of more weeks...it does suck though

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#5

re: Company DVD came today!!!!

Posted: 3/25/08 at 4:13pm

I'm rather glad I cancelled my order with PBS.
It's *really* not worth $30+ they're charging... Honestly.
I'd much rather wait it out till May 20.

Updated On: 3/25/08 at 04:13 PM

#6

re: Company DVD came today!!!!

Posted: 3/25/08 at 4:39pm

I got a note saying I'm not gonna be able to enjoy Company again until late May.

I chose not to cancel since it was a gift anyways...

#7

re: Company DVD came today!!!!

Posted: 4/4/08 at 4:48pm

What a surprise! After I received an e-mail saying I wouldn't be getting my DVD til May..

Guess what I have in my hands now.

Sorry Emcee...

#8

re: Company DVD came today!!!!

Posted: 4/4/08 at 4:51pm

Mine hasn't come yet....AHHHHHHHHH.
I'm getting very impatient.

#9

re: Company DVD came today!!!!

Posted: 4/4/08 at 4:55pm

Mine came a few days ago.

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#10

re: Company DVD came today!!!!

Posted: 4/4/08 at 4:56pm

Got mine today too! Well I checked the UPS tracking thing on-line and they said that it was delivered this morning.

#11

re: Company DVD came today!!!!

Posted: 4/4/08 at 5:43pm

When I left to go to work this morning, I saw a box waiting for me at the front desk of my building. They never put the slip in my mailbox so I could have actually had Bobby over for dinner yesterday. Good lord, stop teasing me, PBS! Ok, that's not their fault but you know...

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Updated On: 4/4/08 at 05:43 PM

#12

Posted: 4/4/08 at 5:47pm

Updated On: 5/7/09 at 05:47 PM

#13

re: Company DVD came today!!!!

Posted: 4/4/08 at 5:51pm

I love the extras - an interview with John Doyle about his directing career and how he began working with actor/musicians; a funny interview of Steven Sondheim as part of a fund raiser by Kookbura Theater in Australia (were they the ones who massacred COMPANY without understudies?): and an interview with Raul Esparza that was interesting but the substance of which has been covered in other interviews. I have watched the DVD twice now, and I love what Lonny Price did with close ups - he always seems to be catching the reactions I loved - or in some cases missed - in the theater.

#14

re: Company DVD came today!!!!

Posted: 4/4/08 at 5:57pm

Please PBS, release this in Region 2! You can do the Angela Lansbury Sweeney Todd while your at it!

#15

re: Company DVD came today!!!!

Posted: 4/4/08 at 6:02pm

I actually thought the special features were kind of a disappointment. The Sondheim interview was really interesting, but there was a lot left out of it. I was hoping there would be more about, you know, Company on it. I always love hearing Raul and Doyle talk about their work, but I was bummed that the interviews were so redundant. I was hoping for some new material that hadn't been covered before, but then again I guess I understand that the questions were probably formulated to be of interest for people who were new to the production and/or Doyle's work. I love the DVD and I'm so grateful that it was taped and released, but I was hoping for more on the special features end.

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Updated On: 4/4/08 at 06:02 PM

#16

re: Company DVD came today!!!!

Posted: 4/4/08 at 6:09pm

LOL, Emcee, it would be quite a challenge I reckon to come up with something about Raul's Doyle's COMPANY that you haven't heard yet.

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Updated On: 4/4/08 at 06:09 PM

#17

re: Company DVD came today!!!!

Posted: 4/4/08 at 6:10pm

True story.

(So it is kind of unfair for me to say that I was disappointed, heh.)

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Updated On: 4/4/08 at 06:10 PM

#18

re: Company DVD came today!!!!

Posted: 4/4/08 at 6:54pm

I would have loved an interview with Lonny Price on how he planned the filming process, and out-takes would have been fun.

#19

re: Company DVD came today!!!!

Posted: 4/4/08 at 7:00pm

Please PBS, release this in Region 2! You can do the Angela Lansbury Sweeney Todd while your at it!

Orrr multiregion player! I have a multiregion disk for a PS2, a PC that I've set to region 1, and my parents' DVD player will happily play anything. Region coding need not be an obstacle to DVD ownership. And it will certainly not stand in my region 2 way of owning 'Company'!

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#20

re: Company DVD came today!!!!

Posted: 4/4/08 at 7:46pm

Thanks Weez for your advice.

#21

Posted: 4/8/08 at 5:09pm

Updated On: 5/7/09 at 05:09 PM

#22

re: Company DVD came today!!!!

Posted: 4/8/08 at 6:10pm

keen on kean mentioned:

"a funny interview of Steven Sondheim"

On the back of the DVD box that interview is listed as an "audience with Stephen Sondheim." Like he was the F'n Pope

#23

re: Company DVD came today!!!!

Posted: 4/8/08 at 8:09pm

I actually think it means an audience (full of people), with Stephen Sondheim!

#24

re: Company DVD came today!!!!

Posted: 4/8/08 at 11:02pm

According to the DVD menu, it's apparently an audience with Stephan Sondheim. That will now bother me forever.

#25

re: Company DVD came today!!!!

Posted: 4/9/08 at 1:56am

^Oh, yeah, that misspelling bothers the crap out of me!

Anyways, I'm ecstatic right now. It looks so good on that plasma HD screen!...