Original Cast Album: Company (1970)

  • PG
  • 10/28/1970 (US)
  • Documentary, Music
  • 53m

Overview

In 1970, right after the triumphant premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s groundbreaking concept musical Company, the renowned composer and lyricist, his director Harold Prince, the show’s stars, and a large pit orchestra all went into a Manhattan recording studio as part of a time-honored Broadway tradition: the making of the original cast album. What ensued was a marathon session in which, with the pressures of posterity and the coolly exacting Sondheim’s perfectionism hanging over them, all involved pushed themselves to the limit.

D. A. Pennebaker

Director

Cast

Stephen Sondheim's headshot

Stephen Sondheim

Self
Hal Prince's headshot

Hal Prince

Self
Elaine Stritch's headshot

Elaine Stritch

Self / Joanne
Dean Jones's headshot

Dean Jones

Self / Bobby
Pamela Myers's headshot

Pamela Myers

Self / Marta
Beth Howland's headshot

Beth Howland

Self / Amy
Barbara Barrie's headshot

Barbara Barrie

Self / Sarah
Charles Braswell's headshot

Charles Braswell

Self / Larry

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