Music and Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim
Book: George Furth
Director: John Doyle
Synopsis: Five married couples as seen through the eyes of their bachelor friend, Robert.
NEW YORK TIMES:
"Fire flickers, dangerous and beckoning, beneath the frost of John Doyle’s elegant, unexpectedly stirring revival of “Company,” which opened last night at the Ethel Barrymore Theater. This visually severe, aurally lush reinvention of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s era-defining musical of marriage and its discontents from 1970 is the chicest-looking production on Broadway"
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NEW YORK POST:
"Yet it remains a series of sketches about communication and marriage, sustained, albeit shakily, by a fantastic score."
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USA TODAY:
"But while Doyle's new Company (* * * out of four) has a number of elements to recommend it, the whole is less than the sum of its considerable parts. Not everyone in Company's company manages to transcend the chinks in this imperfect but intriguing production. Still, like one of Bobby's fleeting lovers, this crowd is worth spending an evening with."
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NEWSDAY:
"How much does it mean to say that "Company," which opened last night with a breakthrough performance by Raúl Esparza, is the very best revival that Broadway has ever seen of Stephen Sondheim's landmark 1970 musical? Plenty, actually."
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VARIETY:
"After yielding the most singularly exciting musical theater experience on Broadway last season with "Sweeney Todd," the collaboration of director John Doyle and composer Stephen Sondheim has spawned another arresting revival with "Company." The 1970 show about the metropolitan angst of marriage and commitment is not quite in the same masterwork league as the demon barber saga and so doesn't equal that production's startling impact. But its nonlinear structure makes this less plot-driven musical more naturally suited to Doyle's signature presentation style, with the actors doubling as musicians. The complete fusion here of character, song and score is illuminating."
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