Shows · Company
Company
Opened 1970
705 performances
Musical, Revolution
Tony Award for Best Musical, 1971
Company was the first of six Broadway musicals created by the most influential and daring team of the Seventies, composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim and director Harold Prince. In putting this work together they avoided the conventional dramatic structure of the linear story by using five separate stories dealing with marriage that were held together by a single character who influences and is influenced by his “good and crazy” married friends.
"present\nCOMPANY\nA MUSICAL COMEDY": the show's own period marketing line.
- Music
- Stephen Sondheim
- Lyrics
- Stephen Sondheim
- Book
- George Furth
Productions8 productions: 5 on Broadway, 3 in the West End
Songs12 songs
Being Alive, The Ladies Who Lunch, Side by Side by Side, Another Hundred People, Company, The Little Things You Do Together, Sorry-Grateful, You Could Drive a Person Crazy, Someone Is Waiting, Getting Married Today, What Would We Do Without You?, Barcelona
Recordings 14 recordings
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Music Theatre International Company matched on title alone: a lead, not a confirmed licensor |
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.