Company Airing on PBS Tonight
The 2006-07 revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's Company will air on PBS (Channel 13) tonight, Feb. 20, at 9 p.m. This Company won the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League Awards for Best Revival of a Musical. The musical starred the Tony-nominated Raúl Esparza as the confused bachelor Bobby and ended its run at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre July 1, 2007 after 34 previews and 247 performances.
The TV production was directed by Lonny Price, who recently chatted with Playbill.com columnist Michael Buckley here. "When I was a kid, I saw the original Company. My parents called their ticket broker, trying to get me tickets for Applause, which looked glamorous," Mr. Prince told Playbill. "The broker said, 'We can't get those, but Company opened this week, and that's supposed to be good for kids.' [Laughs] So, for my 11th birthday, my grandmother, my sister, and I saw Company — which was amazing! It changed my life. The score's in my bones; it's sort of DNA to me."
I also saw Company as a kid - on a field trip to New York in the 9th grade from a Catholic School no less.
Like Lonny Prince,it's in my DNA as well.
A great play, it made me love musicals, but none so much as COMPANY.
Hard to believe "Woodcock" from "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid wrote the play, but how great that Mr. Sondheim wrote the music!
What a play!!!