Patti LuPone, Stephen Colbert, Anika Noni Rose & Martha Plimpton Join Neil Patrick Harris in COMPANY- Page 3

[somethingwicked]

Patti LuPone, Stephen Colbert, Anika Noni Rose & Martha Plimpton Join Neil #50

Posted: 3/21/11 at 3:44pm

Playbill is reporting that John Cryer will also be part of the cast, presumably as Peter.

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/149014-Two-and-a-Half-Men-Star-John-Cryer-Will-Likely-Be-Part-of-New-York-Philharmonics-Company

Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.

[ljay889]

Patti LuPone, Stephen Colbert, Anika Noni Rose & Martha Plimpton Join Neil #51

Posted: 3/21/11 at 3:53pm

Wow. This is shaping up to be quite the cast.

[givesmevoice]

Patti LuPone, Stephen Colbert, Anika Noni Rose & Martha Plimpton Join Neil #52

Posted: 3/21/11 at 3:57pm

Jon Cryer? What a troll.

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

[AC126748]

Patti LuPone, Stephen Colbert, Anika Noni Rose & Martha Plimpton Join Neil #53

Posted: 3/21/11 at 3:57pm

Anyone thinking Paul for Cryer?

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[ljay889]

Patti LuPone, Stephen Colbert, Anika Noni Rose & Martha Plimpton Join Neil #54

Posted: 3/21/11 at 3:58pm

^ I initially thought Paul as well.

[AC126748]

Patti LuPone, Stephen Colbert, Anika Noni Rose & Martha Plimpton Join Neil #55

Posted: 3/21/11 at 4:00pm

Will Sheen attend? He'll be in town doing his schtick at Radio City...

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[madbrian]

Patti LuPone, Stephen Colbert, Anika Noni Rose & Martha Plimpton Join Neil #56

Posted: 3/21/11 at 4:07pm

Maybe Sheen could play Amy?

"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

[supersam1026]

Patti LuPone, Stephen Colbert, Anika Noni Rose & Martha Plimpton Join Neil #57

Posted: 3/21/11 at 4:12pm

It's official! Except Jon Cryer is playing David. The rest of the cast has also been announced in this article. Can't wait to go!

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/21/jon-cryer-and-christina-hendricks-join-philharmonics-company/?p=186901?src=tptw
Updated On: 3/21/11 at 04:12 PM

[ljay889]

Patti LuPone, Stephen Colbert, Anika Noni Rose & Martha Plimpton Join Neil #58

Posted: 3/21/11 at 4:15pm

I LOVE this cast! Finneran, Lazar, Thompson. Wow

And a dancer as Kathy means we are getting TICK-TOCK! Cannot wait.

[Michael Bennett]

Patti LuPone, Stephen Colbert, Anika Noni Rose & Martha Plimpton Join Neil #59

Posted: 3/21/11 at 4:15pm

Its a fabulous cast - very excited!

Best part is the casting of Chryssie Whitehead as Kathy - a fabulous dancer - which should mean we'll be seeing the inclusion of "Tick-Tock"

[somethingwicked]

Patti LuPone, Stephen Colbert, Anika Noni Rose & Martha Plimpton Join Neil #60

Posted: 3/21/11 at 4:17pm

Katie Finneran as Amy is genius.

Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.

[givesmevoice]

Patti LuPone, Stephen Colbert, Anika Noni Rose & Martha Plimpton Join Neil #61

Posted: 3/21/11 at 4:27pm

I think they got a really good mix of actors. Having someone like Chryssie Whitehead in a show with Stephen Colbert is excellent.

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

[Theatreboy49]

Patti LuPone, Stephen Colbert, Anika Noni Rose & Martha Plimpton Join Neil #62

Posted: 3/21/11 at 4:52pm

Now lets just hope they record it!

<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado

[Joey.]

Patti LuPone, Stephen Colbert, Anika Noni Rose & Martha Plimpton Join Neil #63

Posted: 3/21/11 at 5:28pm

They simply have to record this. It's too rich a talent pool to not.

[Almira]

Patti LuPone, Stephen Colbert, Anika Noni Rose & Martha Plimpton Join Neil #64

Posted: 3/21/11 at 5:58pm

Jon Cryer? What a troll.

Agreed.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. - Eleanor Roosevelt

[ZebLuvsJay]

Patti LuPone, Stephen Colbert, Anika Noni Rose & Martha Plimpton Join Neil #65

Posted: 3/21/11 at 6:02pm

WOW!!! Sondheim gives me a reason to live!!! I'm so excited about this cast.

[best12bars]

Patti LuPone, Stephen Colbert, Anika Noni Rose & Martha Plimpton Join Neil #66

Posted: 3/21/11 at 6:12pm

Great cast! I would think they would be able to raise money for taping fairly easily.

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Patti LuPone, Stephen Colbert, Anika Noni Rose & Martha Plimpton Join Neil #67

Posted: 3/21/11 at 6:22pm

Just got my ticket for this! I cannot wait, this cast is ridiculously fantastic (Jon Cryer notwithstanding). I agree Katie Finneran as Amy is perfection, and Christina Hendricks is gonna nail Amy, not to mention the fact Anika Noni Rose singing "Another Hundred People" is going to be heaven on earth. The male cast headed by the great Neil Patrick Harris is quite great as well, this is gonna be such an event, how exciting!

"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

[AwesomeDanny]

Patti LuPone, Stephen Colbert, Anika Noni Rose & Martha Plimpton Join Neil #68

Posted: 3/21/11 at 7:24pm

It's less than three weeks away--would you think that by now, we would have some confirmation if it were to be filmed? Anyway, I'm still crossing my fingers and very excited to hopefully see this awesome cast!

[jaxel614]

Patti LuPone, Stephen Colbert, Anika Noni Rose & Martha Plimpton Join Neil #69

Posted: 3/21/11 at 8:43pm

Cast recording? Filming?

All of us out-of-towners can;t miss this!

[CockeyedOptimist2]

Patti LuPone, Stephen Colbert, Anika Noni Rose & Martha Plimpton Join Neil #70

Posted: 3/21/11 at 11:08pm

With these recent additions (especially Katie Finneran as Amy) it is killing me that I won't be able to make it. I'll be another one holding out hope for a recording!

[ACL2006]

Patti LuPone, Stephen Colbert, Anika Noni Rose & Martha Plimpton Join Neil #71

Posted: 3/21/11 at 11:40pm

so wish I could see this. and I'll add that this needs to be filmed!!!

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.

[bwayfan7000]

Patti LuPone, Stephen Colbert, Anika Noni Rose & Martha Plimpton Join Neil #72

Posted: 3/21/11 at 11:48pm

Now that Finneran has been cast as Amy, I am really mad that I'm in the city the following weekend instead. Bad luck!

"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."-Stephen Sondheim

[ACL2006]

Patti LuPone, Stephen Colbert, Anika Noni Rose & Martha Plimpton Join Neil #73

Posted: 3/22/11 at 12:47am

The final cast list is:

BOBBY - Neil Patrick Harris
JOANNE - Patti LuPone
LARRY - Jim Walton
AMY - Katie Finneran
PAUL - Aaron Lazar
SARAH - Martha Plimpton
HARRY - Stephen Colbert
SUSAN - Jill Paice
PETER - Craig Bierko
JENNY - Jennifer Laura Thompson
DAVID - Jon Cryer
APRIL - Christina Hendricks
MARTA - Anika Noni Rose
KATHY - Chryssie Whitehead

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.

Updated On: 3/22/11 at 12:47 AM

[somethingwicked]

Patti LuPone, Stephen Colbert, Anika Noni Rose & Martha Plimpton Join Neil #74

Posted: 3/22/11 at 1:27am

ACL2006, you're forgetting Jim Walton as Larry.

Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.