Company - Donmar - Another Hundred People

Excerpt from Donmar Warehouse production of Sondheim's Company with Anna Francolini

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Company
• Stephen
• Sondheim
• Donmar
• Warehouse
• London
• Anna
• Francolini

[chicken007fillet]

I think your right I don't think her character is from New York.

[AllanWo]

You're right - she says 'I came to New York because it's the center of the world and that's where I want to be.'

[dramatime1]

the donmar production is too steryotypical. all the charachters are overdone. the broadway revival is much better

[apophis1975]

I really dont think that this woman really got Marta at all. Her expressions are crazy and do not really fit. And as for the costume, Marta is gutsy and quite frankly should be the sexiest of the three girls and that costume is rediculous!

[stevenscollege]

Remember in an episode of the vicar of Dibley when Frank does an impersonation of Stephen Hawking, this sounds exactly like that. No where on earth does this accent exist in real life. Disastrous interpretation.

[thereisnodarkness]

I think the problem with this whole production is not the actors, it's the direction. You can hear glimpses of her real voice coming through and it's actually quite pleasant. She clearly was just following her director's instruction to be completely ridiculous and kind of acerbic in her acting and it impacts her vocals. Everything is just too overdone and it takes away from the subtlety and nuance of this show.

[KamikazeLive]

She did pretty good in my opinion. Could care less what people says.

[Boonedaba]

She appears as if she wants to devour each hundred people that get off of that damn train.

[Beejeification]

She has a HUGE lisp....she's very bad. Her high notes hurt my ears.

[LUJANENSE]

WTF? what is she doing to this song? I'd have walked out. Un-Bearable!

[encorebc]

Why can't they actually get someone who can act in this role? This one and the woman from the revival are just horrible actors. ugh.

[broadwayloverny10]

1. this is 2 fast 2. She sounds Jersey or FROM New York. Like on person said down here all the characters seem stereotypical.

[mike2finch]

Why do all of these characters scare me? The notes being held sound pretty ugly, its obviously on purpose, but why... ?

[maybemaybenot160]

she's a little scary...