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Original cast album, Company [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by D.A. Pennebaker.

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Criterion Collection, 2021.

DVD 782.14 C737p Doc

Sondheim, Stephen. Company.

Musicals -- Production and direction.

Sound recordings -- Production and direction.

Criterion collection ; 1090.

Alternate title:

Company [videorecording (DVD)] : original cast album

[videorecording (DVD)] /

Criterion Collection DVD ed.

1 videodisc (53 min.) : Dolby digital mono. sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 folded insert (col. ill.).

Originally released as a documentary film in 1970.

Special features: New, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by Chris Hegedus and Nate Pennebaker ; new audio commentary by composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim ; audio commentary featuring director D.A. Pennebaker, actor Elaine Stritch, and Broadway producer and director, Harold Prince (2001); new conversation among Sondheim, orchestrator Jonathan Tunick, and critic and television producer Frank Rich ; new interview with Tunick on the art of orchestrating, conducted by author Ted Chapin ; never-before-heard audio excerpts from interviews with Stritch and Prince, conducted by D.A. Pennebaker and Hegedus (2001) ; Original cast album : Co-Op (2019 episode of the TV series Documentary now! that parodies the film) ; Reunion of the cast and crew of “Original Cast Album: ‘Co-Op’” recorded in 2020, featuring director Alexander Buono; writer-actor John Mulaney; actors Rénee Elise Goldsberry, Richard Kind, Alex Brightman, and Paula Pell; and composer Eli Bolin ; PLUS: An essay by author Mark Harris.

English (SDH) subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Company -- You could drive a person crazy -- Getting married today -- Another hundred people -- The little things you do together -- Being alive -- Side by side -- Barcelona -- The ladies who lunch.

A film by D. A. Pennebaker ; Pennebaker Associates Inc. presents ; Talent Associates-Norton Simon Inc. in association with Castle Drive Productions ; a film by D.A. Pennebaker ; music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim ; produced by Chester Feldman, Judy Crichton ; musical numbers staged by Michael Bennett ; book by George Furth ; production director, Harold Prince ; cinematographers, Jim Desmond, Richard Leacock, D.A. Pennebaker.

Featuring, Stephen Sondheim, Harold Prince, George Furth, Thomas Z. Shepard, Dean Jones, Elaine Stritch, Barbara Barrie, George Coe, John Cunningham, Teri Ralston, Charles Kimbrough, Donna McKechnie, Charles Braswell, Susan Browning, Steve Elmore, Beth Howland, Pamela Myers, Merle Louise ; conductor, Harold Hastings.

"This holy grail for both documentary and theater aficionados offers a tantalizingly rare glimpse behind the Broadway curtain. 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 -- including theater legend Elaine Stritch, who fought anxiety and exhaustion to record her iconic rendition of “The Ladies Who Lunch.” With thrilling immediacy, legendary filmmaker D. A. Pennebaker offers an up-close view of the larger-than-life personalities, frayed-nerve energy, and explosive creative intensity that go into capturing the magic of live performance."--Container.

Documentary films.

Filmed performances.

Musicals -- Excerpts.

Films for the hearing impaired.

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