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Company is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by George Furth. The original 1970 production was nominated for a record-setting 14 Tony Awards, winning six.
Synopsis. On the night of his 35th birthday, Robert struggles to think of a wish to make as he blows out his birthday candles. The lone bachelor, surrounded by “those good and crazy people” -- his married friends -- Robert is uncertain whether he should simply be happy with his lot or whether he should wish for his own romantic partner ...
Company is a Tony-winning musical by George Furth and Stephen Sondheim. The show first premiered on Broadway in 1970 and was so acclaimed that it was nominated for 14 Tony Awards and won six of them, a record at the time.
Stephen Sondheim's Company is largely regarded as a trailblazer of the dark-comedy, modern-musical genre, and features a brilliantly brisk and energetic score containing many of the composer's best-known songs. Character Descriptions: Robert, Male, Baritone, 30 – 40. The story's protagonist, a keen observer who appears to be happy.
Company full plot summary including detailed synopsis and summaries for each scene.
Half a century has passed since Stephen Sondheim and George Furth first dazzled Broadway with “ Company,” their tartly astute 1970 musical about a single Manhattanite dogged by coupled friends to...
Company, Sondheim’s sixth Broadway musical, was his breakthrough to serious credibility. It received 14 Tony Award nominations, a record at the time. It’s a minimally plotted collection of songs and stories (more like a revue than a traditional musical) about a single man, his married friends, and several girlfriends.
The habitually single Robert is forced to question his adamant retention of bachelorhood during a hilarious array of interactions. Company features a brilliantly brisk and energetic score containing many of Stephen Sondheim's best known songs.
Show Overview. Company Story. The quintessential musical comedy about the search for love and cocktails in the Big Apple is turned on its head in Marianne Elliott’s revelatory staging, in which...
Story. Act I. Amidst the gleaming chrome and plexiglass towers of modern middle-class Manhattan dwells Robert - all alone in his sleek bachelor apartment. Except for his friends, who are gathered together one evening at the dawn of the Seventies to wish him a happy birthday.