Shows · Company · Alvin Theatre, 1970
Company, 1970
Opened April 26, 1970
Closed January 1, 1972
705 performances
Original
Broadway
6 Tony Awards
Of the productions that opened in the 1970s, this had the 37th longest run.
Other stagings of Company 7 more
Who was in it35 named
Cathy Corkill
Carol Gelfand
Marilyn Saunders
Dona D Vaughn
Eileen Barnett
Kenneth Cory
Marian Hailey
Cynthia Harris
Audrey Johnson
Jane A Johnston
Kenneth Kimmins
Gary Krawford
Shirley Lemmon
Carol Richards
Brenda Thomson
George Wallace
Teri Ralston as Jenny
Creative team
- Director
- Harold Prince
- Choreographer
- Michael Bennett
- Producer
- Harold Prince
- Orchestrations
- Jonathan Tunick
Tony Awards 6 from 14 nominations
Recordings 2 released while this run was on
12 more exist for other runs of this show: see Company for all of them.
Around this production
Dean Jones left the show after just a few weeks due to a nervous breakdown. The cast album was recorded on a single marathon day before he departed.
Burt Bacharach, who I knew slightly, came to New York to do Promises, Promises. He called me and said, “You’re one of the few people I know in the theatre—who should orchestrate the show?” I said, “This guy named Jonathan Tunick strikes me as terrific.” I heard the stuff for Promises. Between that and How Do You Do? I…
The Sound of Broadway Music A Book of Orchestrators and Steven Suskin Oxford Uni, p. 527Something wrong here? Correct a field or report the problem. Every change is recorded in public under the contributor licence.