Company has an air date!
Company has an air date!
broadwayman17
Broadway Star Joined: 10/27/07
#1Company has an air date!
Posted: 12/11/07 at 4:10pm
Mark your calendars 2-20-08. Here is the complete story:
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/113454.html
broadwaybelter
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/26/04
#2re: Company has an air date!
Posted: 12/11/07 at 5:13pmI can't wait! Raul is amazing as Bobby!
Freddy Benson- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
#3re: Company has an air date!
Posted: 12/11/07 at 5:19pmThat's awesome! I still wish they filmed Grey Gardens though.
keen on kean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/06
#4re: Company has an air date!
Posted: 12/11/07 at 5:19pmNice performance photo in the article. Excellent to have the date confirmed.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#5re: Company has an air date!
Posted: 12/11/07 at 5:19pmToo bad they couldn't broadcast on February 14.
MickeyCT
Chorus Member Joined: 6/16/07
#6re: Company has an air date!
Posted: 12/11/07 at 5:20pm
excellent - can't wait 
#7re: Company has an air date!
Posted: 12/11/07 at 5:24pmCan't wait for the DVD release!!!
#8re: Company has an air date!
Posted: 12/11/07 at 5:26pm
Not quite news, but glad to see it hitting the theater sites nonetheless.
I still cannot quite fully express my happiness and sheer gratitude.
#9re: Company has an air date!
Posted: 12/11/07 at 5:30pm
"Can't wait for the DVD release!!!"
I believe Great Performances has permission to only air it once or twice. There is no permission for it to be released on DVD unless it has a different contract than all previously shown musicals on Great Performances.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#10re: Company has an air date!
Posted: 12/11/07 at 5:31pm
A big "THANK YOU!!" to Stephen Sondheim for ensuring his works will be seen by the masses and live on for years to come in their stage formats.
Sweeney Todd
Sunday in the Park
Into The Woods
Passion
sondhead
Broadway Star Joined: 10/25/06
#11re: Company has an air date!
Posted: 12/11/07 at 5:32pm
That's not true. They've said from the beginning it will be released on DVD, and many Great Performances broadcasts have been sold on DVD (the Sondheim shows, Sweeney concert, Fosse, The Webber Shows, etc.)
Updated On: 12/11/07 at 05:32 PM
#12re: Company has an air date!
Posted: 12/11/07 at 5:33pm
Well then I'm a dirty liar...(or maybe just misinformed.) Does it just depend on the production then?
#13re: Company has an air date!
Posted: 12/11/07 at 5:33pm
It's getting a commercial DVD release... which I believe is in May.
And many Great Performances shows get released.
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#14re: Company has an air date!
Posted: 12/11/07 at 5:37pm
LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER shows are not released on DVD as they are properties of the Lincoln Center, which doesn't want them released on DVD. PBS has no rights to them.
GREAT PERFORMANCE is a PBS series -- they do NOT film the shows they air, which is why shows shown on Great Performances have been released on DVD. PBS doesn't own them so they are released on DVD by their respective producers/owners.
Lonny Price, the director of this COMPANY telecast stated before the tapings that it will be available on DVD after the PBS airing(s).
#15re: Company has an air date!
Posted: 12/11/07 at 5:38pm
You're right Brody, I was confusing Great Performances with Live from Lincoln Center which explains it all.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#16re: Company has an air date!
Posted: 12/11/07 at 5:45pmI think it's being released because Sondheim has been generous with his work. Think of some of the others that haven't been released. (Light in the Piazza, Helen Hunt in Twelfth Night, House of Blue Leaves)
#17re: Company has an air date!
Posted: 12/11/07 at 5:48pmPiazza was "Live from Lincoln Center," not "Great Performances." Apples and oranges; it's common for Great Performances to be released to DVD. Oklahoma!, Kiss Me, Kate, etc.
Perfectly Marvelous
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/16/06
#18re: Company has an air date!
Posted: 12/11/07 at 5:57pm
It's getting a commercial DVD release... which I believe is in May.
Well, in that case, I know what I'm asking people to get me for my birthday. :)
I was beyond happy to see Raul's picture with the PBS article when I logged in earlier.
"Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, men recognize that the human race has been harshly treated but it has moved forward." - Les Miserables
#19re: Company has an air date!
Posted: 12/11/07 at 6:07pm
Nothing to do with Sondheim. The "Passion" concert version with Pati Lupone, Michael Cerveris and Audra MacDonald was never released on DVD, either. Cause it was , yep, "Live from Lincoln Center".
Oh and Twelfth Night was also "Live From Lincoln Center", hence, no DVD.
#20re: Company has an air date!
Posted: 12/11/07 at 6:17pm
From Great Performances' Facebook page:
#21re: Company has an air date!
Posted: 12/11/07 at 6:22pmOoo! Now that's a sexy shot. Joan Marcus? (Eug goes to friend Great Performances, surprised he hasn't already)
#22re: Company has an air date!
Posted: 12/11/07 at 6:26pm
Credit:
Joe Sinnott, Thirteen/WNET
Hard to tell if it's a screenshot or an actual photograph.
sondhead
Broadway Star Joined: 10/25/06
#23re: Company has an air date!
Posted: 12/11/07 at 7:04pm
"I think it's being released because Sondheim has been generous with his work. Think of some of the others that haven't been released. (Light in the Piazza, Helen Hunt in Twelfth Night, House of Blue Leaves)"
Those are Live at Lincoln Center broadcasts, which are broadcast live and therefore never released on DVD. I don't understand it because it wouldn't turn me off, but the only way they seem to be willing to release theatre on DVD is if they film several performances and edit them together so as to rid the broadcast of all mistakes.
Ed_Mottershead
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#24re: Company has an air date!
Posted: 12/11/07 at 7:58pmGreat news! And everybody be sure to mark their calendars for December 17th, when Mahagonny with Audra and Patti will be aired.
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