Great Performances to Premiere New COMPANY Revival Documentary

[jacobsnchz14]

Great Performances to Premiere New COMPANY Revival Documentary#1

Posted: 1/18/22 at 1:15pm

Great Performances will present a documentary exploring the legacy of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's musical Company, part of the series' fifth "Broadway's Best" lineup.

Filmed over two years, the broadcast takes an inside look at Tony-winning director Marianne Elliott's creative process of bringing the reimagined gender-swapped production to Broadway during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a cast including Tony and Grammy winner Katrina Lenk and two-time Tony and two-time Grammy winner Patti LuPone.

Featuring rehearsal and performance footage, plus new interviews with Elliott, Lenk, LuPone, Sondheim, and members of the original 1970 cast, Great Performances: Keeping Companywith Sondheim (w.t.), a #PBSForTheArts program, premieres Friday, May 27, at 9 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings), pbs.org/broadwayonpbs and the PBS Video app.

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/GREAT-PERFORMANCES-to-Premiere-New-COMPANY-Revival-Documentary-20220118

[ljay889]

Great Performances to Premiere New COMPANY Revival Documentary#2

Posted: 1/18/22 at 1:27pm

Exciting!

[ashley0139]

Great Performances to Premiere New COMPANY Revival Documentary#3

Posted: 1/18/22 at 1:30pm

This is so exciting, I can’t wait! 

"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife

[EDSOSLO858]

Great Performances to Premiere New COMPANY Revival Documentary#4

Posted: 1/18/22 at 1:32pm

Looking forward to this.

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[ACL2006]

Great Performances to Premiere New COMPANY Revival Documentary#5

Posted: 1/18/22 at 1:35pm

Wonderful!

A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Great Performances to Premiere New COMPANY Revival Documentary#6

Posted: 1/18/22 at 1:58pm

COMPANY remains one of the most documented Broadway shows, perhaps matched only by Peter Pan, Annie, and Sweeney. Company has had Original Cast Album doc, filmed productions with Adrian Lester, Raul Esparza, and NPH, and now this doc. (and Documentary Now as a bonus!)

Looking forward to this, and hoping it will explore the aftermath of Sondheim's death.

Updated On: 1/18/22 at 01:58 PM

[BrodyFosse123]

Great Performances to Premiere New COMPANY Revival Documentary#7

Posted: 1/18/22 at 2:53pm

SWEENEY: Original Cast Album doc doesn’t exist!  

[Rudy2]

Great Performances to Premiere New COMPANY Revival Documentary#8

Posted: 1/18/22 at 2:59pm

How wonderful! It’s certainly an historic production, so this is welcome and warranted.

2010

Feb. 28 - Looped, Feb. 28 - Next to Normal, March 4 - Hair, March 11 - A Little Night Music, March 24 - Time Stands Still, April 6 - La Cage Aux Folles, April 10 - Anyone Can Whistle (City Center), April 10 - Looped, May 9 - Enron, May 15 - A Little Night Music, May 15 - A Behanding In Spokane, May 30 - A Behanding In Spokane, May 30 - A Little Night Music, June 20 - A Little Night Music, June 23 - Red, June 23 - Sondheim on Sondheim, July 13 - A Little Night Music, July 18 - The Grand Manner (Lincoln Center)

[everythingtaboo]

Great Performances to Premiere New COMPANY Revival Documentary#9

Posted: 1/18/22 at 3:08pm

Sucks we have to wait until May, but I'm so excited! 

"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008

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

Great Performances to Premiere New COMPANY Revival Documentary#10

Posted: 1/18/22 at 3:53pm

BrodyFosse123 said: "SWEENEY: Original Cast Album doc doesn’t exist! "

Not what they were saying. They said Company "remains one of the most documented Broadway shows, perhaps matched only by Peter Pan, Annie, and Sweeney," and then proceeded to list the ways in which it was documented, including the Original Cast Album doc, etc.

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[BrodyFosse123]

Great Performances to Premiere New COMPANY Revival Documentary#11

Posted: 1/18/22 at 4:11pm

g.d.e.l.g.i. said: "BrodyFosse123 said: "SWEENEY: Original Cast Album doc doesn’t exist! "

Not what they were saying. They said Company "remains one of the most documented Broadway shows, perhaps matched only by Peter Pan, Annie, and Sweeney," and then proceeded to list the ways in which it was documented, including the Original Cast Album doc, etc."


This is how it was written, yo.

COMPANY remains one of the most documented Broadway shows, perhaps matched only by Peter Pan, Annie, and Sweeney: Original Cast Album doc, filmed productions with Adrian Lester, Raul Esparza, and NPH, and now this doc. (and Documentary Now as a bonus!)

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Great Performances to Premiere New COMPANY Revival Documentary#12

Posted: 1/18/22 at 4:14pm

g.d.e.l.g.i. said: "BrodyFosse123 said: "SWEENEY: Original Cast Album doc doesn’t exist! "

Not what they were saying. They said Company "remains one of the most documented Broadway shows, perhaps matched only by Peter Pan, Annie, and Sweeney," and then proceeded to list the ways in which it was documented, including the Original Cast Album doc, etc."

thank u.

there SHOULD be a doc about the Sweeney cast album tho :)

I've fixed the original sentence. Quit nitpicking, BrodyFosse!

Updated On: 1/18/22 at 04:14 PM

[fosterfan2]

Great Performances to Premiere New COMPANY Revival Documentary#13

Posted: 1/18/22 at 5:21pm

CAN'T. WAIT. I needed some good news today.

[wewdie]

Great Performances to Premiere New COMPANY Revival Documentary#14

Posted: 1/18/22 at 6:38pm

I'm still holding out hope for a cast recording with this beautiful cast.  Fingers crossed.

[fosterfan2]

Great Performances to Premiere New COMPANY Revival Documentary#15

Posted: 1/18/22 at 8:26pm

wewdie said: "I'm still holding out hope for a cast recording with this beautiful cast. Fingers crossed."

So am I. That would be amazing!

 

[Miles2Go2]

Great Performances to Premiere New COMPANY Revival Documentary#16

Posted: 1/18/22 at 10:49pm

Did anyone watch Great Performances: Reopening - The Broadway Revival tonight? I thought it was beautiful, but it was weird and sad seeing all these shows that reopened only to close or are now struggling.