Countdown to Company on PBS! — Page 2

#26

re: Countdown to Company on PBS!

Posted: 2/8/08 at 10:49am

So excited for this!

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#27

re: Countdown to Company on PBS!

Posted: 2/8/08 at 2:47pm

I took a shortcut that I had never taken before on the way from the mail room one day and discovered a big screen TV I never knew existed. Can't wait to see this on it!!

#28

re: Countdown to Company on PBS!

Posted: 2/8/08 at 3:20pm

Oh, obsessedjb - it's fate! This definitely calls for HD and/or large screen.

#29

re: Countdown to Company on PBS!

Posted: 2/8/08 at 3:48pm

I can't wait to see this either--but, I must say, the "Forbidden Broadway" takeoff on this production is one of their funniest in years...

"Raul, do you like my new cello?"

"No strings, no drums, unaccompanied...
I sing, she hums, unaccompanied..."

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I ask in all honesty/What would life be?/Without a song and a dance, what are we?/So I say "Thank you for the music/For giving it to me."

#30

re: Countdown to Company on PBS!

Posted: 2/8/08 at 8:14pm

I am currently in a production of Company and we are having a screening party. The idea of watching this whenever I want is brilliant.

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"What a mystery this world. One day you love them and the next day you want to kill them a thousand times over." The Masked Bandit in THE FALL

#31

re: Countdown to Company on PBS!

Posted: 2/8/08 at 11:01pm

12 DAYS LEFT!!!

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#32

re: Countdown to Company on PBS!

Posted: 2/8/08 at 11:56pm

for anyone who just can't wait PBS (the real one so its okay) posted 2 brief preview clips on youtube- getting married today, and what would we do without you.

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"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel

#33

re: Countdown to Company on PBS!

Posted: 2/9/08 at 12:11am

I'm excited. I just wish I had a TV with decent sound to watch it on.

#34

re: Countdown to Company on PBS!

Posted: 2/9/08 at 12:28am

what makes me laugh is there has been a pro shot bootleg of this going around for weeks

Yes, but the broadcast will be in HD.

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"It's Phantom meets Hamlet... Phamlet!"

#35

re: Countdown to Company on PBS!

Posted: 2/9/08 at 12:52am

You guys are so sweet to have a coutdown for my birthday!

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-Adam Shankman.

"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"

"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"

#36

re: Countdown to Company on PBS!

Posted: 2/9/08 at 3:26am

11 DAYS LEFT!!

I have to work on that night ...time to set up the TiVo!...

#37

re: Countdown to Company on PBS!

Posted: 2/11/08 at 4:33pm

Yes, but the broadcast will be in HD.

Yes and no. It will only be broadcast on HD on the PBS-HD channel -- the regular PBS channel will not be broadcasting in HD. Also, you need to have HD capabilities in order to see it in HD -- regular TVs do not produce an HD image.

Seems people assume because it says available in HD where available that they are watching a show in HD. They are not.

#38

re: Countdown to Company on PBS!

Posted: 2/11/08 at 4:49pm

Seems people assume because it says available in HD where available that they are watching a show in HD. They are not.


I assume nothing. I have an HDTV and I get PBS-HD.

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Updated On: 2/11/08 at 04:49 PM

#39

re: Countdown to Company on PBS!

Posted: 2/11/08 at 4:56pm

My response wasn't directed at you -- it was directed at those assuming.

Relax, boo.

#40

re: Countdown to Company on PBS!

Posted: 2/12/08 at 12:19pm

Whoo-hoo! The standard DVD release has been confirmed:

Tuesday May 20, 2008!

Raul Esparza, Elizabeth Stanley, Keith Buterbaugh, Matt Castle, Robert Cunningham, Kelly Jeanne Grant, Kristin Huffman, Amy Justman, Heather Laws, Leenya Rideout, Fred Rose. Directed by John Doyle. 131 minutes. Widescreen (enhanced for 16.9 widescreen TVs), Dolby Digital 5.1.

Here's hoping an HD-DVD and/or Blu-ray disc release follows.

#41

re: Countdown to Company on PBS!

Posted: 2/12/08 at 12:30pm

8 more days YAY! I'm in the middle of a production and am scared we are going to have a pick up rehearsal or something, but we did Company last year so hopefully we can have a viewing partay!

#42

re: Countdown to Company on PBS!

Posted: 2/12/08 at 12:35pm

That's it! I'm getting my friend, I'm gonna' freeze myself! I CAN'T WAIT ANYMORE!

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"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
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#43

re: Countdown to Company on PBS!

Posted: 2/12/08 at 3:37pm

Who's releasing the DVD? If it's the same company who released other GP DVDs (i.e. Candide, Sweeney concert) I'm saddened that there is no DTS track on the Company DVD, as one usually made it onto the others.
However, it will be awesome to watch this whenever I want.

#44

re: Countdown to Company on PBS!

Posted: 2/13/08 at 3:30am

It looks like Image Entertainment (Into the Woods, and SITPWG I believe) is releasing the DVD, according to TLA video.

They had a cover up, but I don't know if this is the final cover or not...

Anyway, I can't wait!!!

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#45

re: Countdown to Company on PBS!

Posted: 2/13/08 at 3:55am

I actually like that cover better than the blue with the boxes.

#46

re: Countdown to Company on PBS!

Posted: 2/13/08 at 4:07am

It's funny, at first I didn't really like the cover (if it is real). It kinda looked cheap and slopped together.

But then I thought about it, and it kinda makes sense to the show. The show is called "Company", but, ironically, the lead character is on it all alone, surrounded by darkness. Kinda like the mindset of Bobby throughout the show...

Anyway, I hope I get my DVD recorder working (it's on the fritz right now so that I can record this on the 20th, because three months is a long way to wait to watch and re-watch this...

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#47

re: Countdown to Company on PBS!

Posted: 2/14/08 at 3:02am

LESS THAN A WEEK!!

Six days left! Still too long, IMO...