Company [Original Broadway Cast Recording]

by Company / O.c.r.

Overview

Stephen Sondheim's award-winning 1970 outing Company, like most of his work, is highly acclaimed by theater-goers, critics, and his peers. Essentially a musical about nothing, Company chronicles the thoughts and remembrances one man has about his friends (five married couples) as he hesitates outside the door, about to walk in on his own "surprise" birthday party. The only single member in their group, he spends the entire musical wavering between adoring his bachelorhood and trying to locate his dream woman -- the perfect merging of his female friends' best qualities -- so he too can settle down. Company truly exemplifies that less can be more, at least in terms of story line. Heralded by some as instigating the reconstruction of the concept of musical theater, the score of Company is completely modern and utterly charming in every way. Among its many highlights are the amusing "Getting Married Today" and the lovely yet quirky "Barcelona." A winner at both the Drama Critics Circle and Tony Awards in 1970, this show established Sondheim as a demigod of the contemporary musical theater. The story of a bachelor afloat in a sea of the very married was certainly of its time, but it has proven to have enduring appeal, as have Sondheim's deliciously tongue-twisting songs. ~ Marjorie Ellen Ruhlmann and Sarah Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date:	05/05/2009
Label:	Masterworks Broadway
UPC:	0886974991427
Rank:	6965

Tracks

1. Company, musical~Act 1. Company
2. Company, musical~Act 1. The Little Things You Do Together
3. Company, musical~Act 1. Sorry-Grateful
4. Company, musical~Act 1. You Could Drive A Person Crazy
5. Company, musical~Act 1. Have I Got A Girl For You
6. Company, musical~Act 1. Someone Is Waiting
7. Company, musical~Act 1. Another Hundred People
8. Company, musical~Act 1. Getting Married Today
9. Company, musical~Act 2. Side By Side By Side / What Would We Do / Without You?
10. Company, musical~Act 2. Poor Baby
11. Company, musical~Act 2. Tick-Tock
12. Company, musical~Act 2. Barcelona
13. Company, musical~Act 2. The Ladies Who Lunch
14. Company, musical~Act 2. Being Alive
15. Company, musical~Act 2. Finale
16. Company, musical~Being Alive

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Dean Jones   Primary Artist,Vocals
Company Cast Ensemble   Primary Artist,Choir/Chorus
Teri Ralston   Primary Artist,Vocals
Larry Kert   Primary Artist,Vocals
Charles Braswell   Primary Artist,Vocals
John Cunningham   Primary Artist,Vocals,Vocals
Donna McKechnie   Primary Artist,Vocals
Elaine Stritch   Primary Artist,Vocals
Charles Kimbrough   Primary Artist,Vocals
Barbara Barrie   Primary Artist,Vocals
Susan Browning   Primary Artist,Vocals
George Coe   Primary Artist,Vocals
Merle Louise   Primary Artist,Vocals
Carol Gelfand   Primary Artist
Cathy Corkill   Primary Artist
Steve Elmore   Primary Artist,Vocals
Beth Howland   Primary Artist,Vocals
Pamela Myers   Primary Artist,Vocals
Veanne Cox   Vocals
Harold Hastings   Conductor,Musical Direction
Katherine Burton   Vocals
Rebecca Young   Viola,Orchestra
Company Pit Orchestra   Orchestra

Technical Credits

Dean Jones   Performer
Wally Harper   Arranger,Dance Arrangement
Jonathan Tunick   Orchestration
Fred Plaut   Engineer
Darcy Proper   Remixing,Mastering
John Guerriere   Engineer
David Shire   Dance Arrangement
Thomas Z. Shepard   Producer,Reissue Producer,Original Album Producer
Harry Woods   Composer
Stephen Sondheim   Composer,Lyricist
Barbara Barrie   Performer
Eleanor Becker   Editorial Production
Marilyn Saunders   Cast
Chris Woehrle   Art Direction
Ken Fredette   Design
Carol Gelfand   Cast
Cathy Corkill   Cast
Dona D. Vaughn   Cast
Charles Burr   Liner Notes
Marc Kirkeby   Synopsis,Liner Notes
Joy Gilbert Manfried   Project Manager
Juliana Myrick   Packaging Manager
George Furth   Book