Company: Part 2

This is part two of my absolute favorite musical of all time, "Company" by Stephen Sondheim. This is the PBS "Great Performances" recording of the 2006 Revival of "Company" directed by John Doyle, the director of the 2005 Revival of "Sweeney Todd" also by Stephen Sondheim. In both of these revivals there are no musicians, the actors play all of the instruments, very challenging, yet very effective. The star of this production of "Company" is Raul Esparza who plays Bobby, a seemingly happy Manhattan bachelor with a deep hidden sadness. The cast of this production shows extreme strength in the area of ensemble work. This production has one of the best interpretations of the song "Getting Married Today" I have ever heard, Heather Laws does an amazing job with it. The cast is as follows Bobby: Raul Esparza, Joanne: Barbara Walsh, Larry: Bruce Sabath, Amy: Heather Laws, Paul: Robert Cunningham, Sarah: Kristin Huffman, Harry: Keith Butterbaugh, Jenny: Leenya Rideout, David: Fred Rose, Susan: Amy Justman, Peter: Matt Castle, April: Elizabeth Stanley, Marta: Angel Desai, Kathy: Kelly Jeane Grant. This section includes the songs "Company" and "The Little Things You do Together".

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• 2006
• barrymore
• broadway
• comedy
• company
• dating
• ethel
• genius
• life
• marriage
• musical
• play
• revival
• sondheim
• stephen
• theater

[Hasselhoffhater]

So who is Sarah Lee?

[BillyCowles]

Sarah Lee is a brand of cake. I don't think she is a real woman. I might be wrong though. LOL!

[move2themusic]

? Why did they censor Christ? frickin' paranoid "political correctness"

[Bobby54568]

well, i love the staging. it works for the concept of the show.

[xllxpersonxllx]

I love this show so much! <3 I think my only problem with this is that it cut off in the middle of the song :P

[alyssadriver785]

found my job here ..careerstart.info..

[andrew3347]

@SweeneyTodd98 meeee!!!!

[tracer740]

@tracer740 SaraLee's father Charles enjoyed expansion and growth thru 4 expanded periods and sold the co. to Consolidated Foods around 1960. He died in '88 but his wife survived until 2006 in her 91st floor apartment at John Hancock Center. Until ConFoods took over the business, the cream cheese cake, all-butter coffee cake and pound cake were without par. Their counterparts today, even tho called 'SaraLee', all suck. BTW, Sara Lee (now Schuph) 69, still survives.

[tracer740]

@BillyCowles -sorry for the late viewing on this. Sara Lee Lubin was the daughter of a very famous baker when I grew up on north side of Chicago. Her dad razed the site at 5100 N Elston Ave which housed one of the 3 bakeries he co-owned with his brother. He had builte what was then, a very modern, high facilty bakery producing the 1st of his own products, Sara Lee German Cheese Cake. That was 1949 or 1950. The success and growth of his business was a phenomenon and they were only sold locally.

[SweeneyTodd98]

Does anyone get chills at the end when they all belt out "Company!"? Anyone?

[shakondtambourine]

@Cora: apparently you are, because she is absolutely amazing!

[coralamber]

I am apparently the only one annoyed by Barbara Walsh in this

[sephyr2006]

"Little Things You Do Together" came at the perfect moment lol That was actually hilarious.

[sephyr2006]

"Look, I can put my fist in my pants too, you know" lol