Original Cast Album: Company (1970)

Original Cast Album: Company

1970

Documentary Music

Synopsis

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.

Credits

Director

D. A. Pennebaker

Cast

Barbara Barrie as Self / Sarah

Beth Howland as Self / Amy

Charles Braswell as Self / Larry

Dean Jones as Self / Bobby

Elaine Stritch as Self / Joanne

George Coe as Self / David

Hal Prince as Self

Pamela Myers as Self / Marta