Company at the NY Phil - Full Cast Announced

[Musicaldudepeter]

Posted: 3/29/11 at 7:01am

http://nyphil.org/attend/season/index.cfm?page=eventDetail&eventNum=2318&seasonNum=10

[HistoryBoy2]

Posted: 3/29/11 at 7:33am

Craig Bierko as Peter
Stephen Colbert as Harry
Jon Cryer as David
Katie Finneran as Amy
Neil Patrick Harris as Robert
Christina Hendricks as April
Aaron Lazar as Paul
Patti LuPone as Joanne
Jill Paice as Susan
Martha Plimpton as Sarah
Anika Noni Rose as Marta
Jennifer Laura Thompson as Jenny
Jim Walton as Larry
Chryssie Whitehead as Kathy

I THINK I JUST CAME.

[barcelona20]

Posted: 3/29/11 at 8:19am

Amazing casting except for NPH. Not acting wise, but singing. I don't think he has the necessary voice for this role.

[madbrian]

Posted: 3/29/11 at 8:35am

I got my daughters tickets to this for Christmas, and now I really, Really, REALLY regret not getting one for myself.

[yay_gerb]

Posted: 3/29/11 at 11:22am

I'm not very familiar with the NY Phil. Do they have standing room?

[newintown]

Posted: 3/29/11 at 11:42am

Great cast. Although I think technically Harry & Sarah should be (like Larry & Joanne) older than the others.

But, ultimately, Avery Fisher is too cavernous to be the best acoustic for this tight score. I think it'll play better on TV.

[ljay889]

Posted: 3/29/11 at 2:49pm

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/149289-Ensemble-and-Vocal-Minority-Announced-for-Neil-Patrick-Harris-Company

I am thrilled they are including the Vocal Minority. But why are there 6 ensemble members?

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 3/29/11 at 2:51pm

I would assume the ensemble is there to just fill out the group vocals.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 3/29/11 at 3:01pm

Is this or is this not going to air on PBS?

[newintown]

Posted: 3/29/11 at 3:01pm

The Vocal Minority is written to be sung by four women, not two women/two men. It makes a big difference.

And there's no more point to adding an ensemble to Company than there is for adding one to Charlie Brown, Little Shop, or any other show written without one, unless you're a high school or community theatre looking to find roles for a lot of extra people.

[ACL2006]

Posted: 3/29/11 at 4:20pm

the ensemble members make no sense. will some of them back-up Kathy during tick-tock??

[bwayfan7000]

Posted: 3/29/11 at 5:21pm

What exactly is the Vocal Minority? Just pit singers, or is there more to it?

[perfectlymarvelous]

Posted: 3/29/11 at 5:30pm

I know in the casting notice they were looking for four female dancers, so I would assume they're going to be dancing with Kathy during "Tick Tock"?

[TonyVincent]

Posted: 3/29/11 at 6:08pm

Wish I had tickets to this.

Wait! I do!

:)

[Mildred Plotka]

Posted: 3/29/11 at 6:45pm

"Amazing casting except for NPH. Not acting wise, but singing. I don't think he has the necessary voice for this role."

Oh for ****'s aake!

Bobby's songs were written around Dean Jones. Not exactly a premiere vocalist. Are you basing Bobby's vocal demands arounds the Esparza performance? Bobby is an acting first role. And Harris is far more of a singer than Jones. I've seen a multitude of performers and their vocals were not what made Bobby tick. A strongly acted Bobby with passable vocal skills is what the role demands. And Harris has that. New treatments in revival are fine but they start to piss me off when people think that reading is the way it always was and should be.

[afaye11]

Posted: 3/29/11 at 7:58pm

Well, I guess it makes sense for the female ensemble members to dance back up during "Tick Tock"...anybody have any idea what the male ensemble could be doing? I figured they might show up during "Have I got a Girl for You" but I'm not at all convinced that that's necessary. Anybody have a clue?

Excited for the vocal minority though, should be a very nice addition. Just a bit confused about the ensemble...

[Pianist3912]

Posted: 3/29/11 at 8:21pm

So glad they're including the Vocal Minority! One of the things I love most about the Original Broadway Cast Recording is the use of those background singers, such as in "Another Hundred People" (Though I think it's only present on certain issues of the recording).

[ljay889]

Posted: 3/29/11 at 8:24pm

I don't get why Kathy would need backup dancers.

[ljay889]

Posted: 3/29/11 at 8:24pm

I don't get why Kathy would need backup dancers.

[Play Esq.]

Posted: 3/29/11 at 9:53pm

'Wish I had tickets to this.

Wait! I do! "

Oh you bitch...

[barcelona20]

Posted: 3/30/11 at 12:41am

To Mildred - Dean Jones had passion, desperation in his voice. I don't think NPH has that same quality. We shall find out soon enough.

[Brave Sir Robin2]

Posted: 3/30/11 at 1:01am

I'm going to be so upset if this is not on DVD or PBS. I need to see this cast.

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 3/30/11 at 1:11am

^ Me too! Company is such a great show. I can't even begin to imagine how amazing this production will be.

[newintown]

Posted: 3/30/11 at 9:42am

Dean Jones had an exceptionally strong tenor with additional baritone timbre. And he could act the hell out of a song.

NPH has a light baritone that, even on studio recordings, sounds rather delicate; onstage, he has a rather tentative affect, rather than a powerful one. But I'm sure he'll be heavily miked, the keys significantly lowered, and he'll be fine (at least to those who cut celebrities a bit of extra slack).

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 3/30/11 at 9:48am

Guys its a semi-staged *concert* version of the musical. They may give Kathy some back up dancers in Tik-Tock to make the number seem bigger, but really we should all assume most of these extra people were hired to boast the over all choral sound of the group numbers as sung with the huge New York Philharmonic. The orchestra is going to be three times the size of the original Broadway production - they likely want more voices to match it.