Company on Broadway: Show Is Now Closed
Company Summary
- Show Status: Closed
- Genre: Musical
- Company is 2 hours and 35 minutes long, including an intermission of 15 minutes
- 8 Shows per week
- Previews Began: November 15, 2021
- Show Opened : December 9, 2021
- Show Closed: July 31, 2022
An updated gender-bender version of the classic Sondheim show made up of vignettes that challenge personal relationships and what they really mean, when a poignant 35th Birthday celebration approaches.
What's Company Like?
The updated plot revolves around a happily-single woman, who has no inclination to commit to marriage, despite a large number of potential suitors. Her close friends are five married couples, some gay and some straight. She also has three boyfriends, with whom she has a less-than-stellar relationships with, each of them bringing their own positive and negative traits.
This show is presented in short vignettes, that are in no story order, but serve to give a better view into the protagonists life and thoughts during the often challenging celebration of her 35th birthday.
Is Company Good for Kids?
This show is not very kid friendly with its adult themes, coarse language and comedic depiction of crass stereotypes.
Company on Broadway Background
Originally a 1970 Broadway musical comedy by Stephen Sondheim, where the show received fourteen Tony Award nominations, Company was originally entitled Threes, but changed its name after confusion with another Broadway show of the same name. Company is a groundbreaking Broadway show that dealt with adult themes of love and relationships.
Sondheim Ignores That Theatre Was Supposed to Make People Forget About Their Own Lives
Sondheim plays the ultimate joke on his audience by bringing back the very things from their home that audiences went to the theatre to forget about in the first place. The show has been revived four previous times and the 2019 version of the show will be its fifth revival. This latest version of the show changes the genders of some of the main characters, which creates a more contemporary feel and nuance, in effect challenging the audience to a new set of circumstances and issues of the day.
Post-Pandemic Opening Night Changes
Company resumed Broadway performances post-pandemic a month earlier than previously announced. The show was previously scheduled to begin its previews after the COVID-19 pandemic intermission on Dec 20, 2021, with an opening night of Jan 9, 2022.
Theatre Information
Bernard B Jacobs Theatre
New York, NY 10019
Cast Members
- Bobbie
- Katrina Lenk
- Joanne
- Patti LuPone
- Harry
- Christopher Sieber
- Peter
- Greg Hildreth
- Paul
- Etai Benson
- Sarah
- Jennifer Simard
- Susan
- Rashidra Scott
- Jenny
- Nikki Renee Daniels
- David
- Christopher Fitzgerald
- Larry
- Terence Archie
- Jamie
- Matt Doyle
- Andy
- Claybourne Elder
- Theo
- Kyle Dean Massey
- P.J.
- Bobby Conte Thornton
Past Cast Members
- Bobbie
- Rosalie Craig
Producers
Tim Levy (Executive Producer)
Elliott and Harper Productions
The Shubert Organization
Catherine Schreiber
Production Credits
- General Manager
- Thompson Turner Productions
- Company Manager
- Brittany Weber
- Production Manager
- Aurora Productions
- Casting Director
- Cindy Tolan
- Advertising Representative
- AKA NYC
- Press Agent
- DKC O&M
- Production Stage Manager
- Tim Semon
Creative Team
- Book Writer
- George Furth
- Music & Lyrics
- Stephen Sondheim
- Director
- Marianne Elliott
- Choreographer
- Liam Steel
- Settings & Costumes
- Bunny Christie
- Lighting
- Neil Austin
- Sound
- Ian Dickinson
- Illusions
- Chris Fisher
- Musical Supervisor
- Joel Fram
- Orchestrations
- David Cullen
- Dance Arrangements
- Sam Davis