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Company: A Musical Comedy
by IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT
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Publisher: IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Enhanced, NTSC, Widescreen
Actors: Raul Esparza, Angel Desai, Elizabeth Stanley, Barbara Walsh, Fred Rose
Winner of the 2007 Tony Award! Sweeping all the major theater awards for Best Revival of a Musical, a beloved era-definingic is stunningly reinvented in this powerful Broadway production, featuring an explosive starring performance by Raul Esparza. Set in modern upper-crust Manhattan, Company is a funny, sophisticated exploration of love and commitment as seen through the eyes of a charming perpet
Winner of the 2007 Tony Award! Sweeping all the major theater awards for Best Revival of a Musical, a beloved era-defining classic is stunningly reinvented in this powerful Broadway production, featuring an explosive starring performance by Raul Esparza. Set in modern upper-crust Manhattan, Company is a funny, sophisticated exploration of love and commitment as seen through the eyes of a charming perpetual bachelor questioning his single state and his enthusiastically married, slightly envious friends. With a wise and witty Stephen Sondheim score including "Another Hundred People," "Side by Side by Side," "The Ladies Who Lunch" and "Being Alive," Company offers musical comedy at its finest.
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| Even Better Company |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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"Company" was the first Sondheim musical I saw on stage in London's West End. It was the
beginning of a life-long love. The man is - without hyperbole - a genius. And this production
of "Company" proves it. Who would have thought that anyone could improve upon the original
staging? But in almost every way, this digs deeper and mines the psychological truths embedded
in a work that shows that this "musical comedy", like Shakespeare's comedies, to touch profound
depths. Unequivocally recommended.
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| Company |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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Great musical, well done, great production ... got it in a timely manner and everything was good
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| Excellent blu ray with a couple of flaws |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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This is an excellent disc, with a couple of flaws.
I think the absence of subtitles is particularly important here, because the singers' diction, while very good, is not as absolutely clear as it might be, or as it is on the original cast recording of COMPANY. And of course Sondheim's lyrics are tricky enough that at some point almost everyone is going to need subtitles to follow them.
Another reviewer has already mentioned a certain overintensity in the lead performer. I didn't notice that, but the singer who does "The Ladies Who Lunch" is overintense indeed. This is her decision, and the song is so famous for its mordancy that I can hardly blame her for overplaying its bitterness, but I think a touch of humor would have made the song better, and that finally it collapses under the extreme self-importance she imparts to it.
If the other critic and I are both right, this entire production suffers a little from its exaggerated seriousness.
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| 'Company,' the Broadway musical |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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Price was right. Product came on time. I have not had the chance to view it
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| more, please! |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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this is a vital addition to the pitifully small assortment of sondheim musicals on dvd, fetchingly staged by john doyle with the actors doubling as musicians, as in doyle's celebrated "sweeney todd" production. it works here.
it's strongly cast and sung, and the book holds up well -- only an extended scene in which a naive wife is introduced to marijuana shows its age. the songs have lost none of their bite -- "the ladies who lunch" and "being alive" are the show-stoppers they should be. the dvd includes video interviews with doyle and with raul esparza, who plays the protagonist, bobby, and an extended discussion with sondheim from australian television.
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