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Original Cast Album: Company is a 1970 documentary film by D. A. Pennebaker, observing the marathon recording session to create the original cast album for the ...
Company is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by George Furth. The original 1970 production was nominated for a record-setting 14 Tony Awards, winning six. Company was among the first book musicals to deal with contemporary dating, marriage, and divorce, [1] and is a notable example of a concept musical lacking a ...
In 1956, he recorded Frank Loesser's musical The Most Happy Fella, which had so much music that it had to be released as a 3-LP set, an almost unheard of venture for an original cast album in the 1950s. A 1970 documentary by D. A. Pennebaker, Original Cast Album: Company gives a straightforward view of the making of a cast recording. It shows ...
In 1970, the cast of Co-Op, a musical detailing the joys and pains of a New York City housing cooperative, gathers in a studio to record the show's original cast album. After the cast records the opening number, the show's composer Simon Sawyer and producer Howard Pine break the news that the show is closing following bad reviews and that the ...
In 1970, Pennebaker filmed the cast recording session for Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's musical, Company, shortly after the show opened on Broadway. The film was initially intended to be a television pilot chronicling recording processes of Broadway musicals, but despite wide acclaim the series was scrapped after the original producers ...
‡ Cut from the original production of the show Sondheim wrote a new song for this revue, titled God, a "self-deprecating comic song" sung by the company to open Act 2. [21] List of shows represented, collaborators, songs performed and the actors singing the parts, in order, on the cast album: Act I: "My Name Is Stephen Joshua Sondheim…"
1970s portal; Soundtrack albums released in the year 1970 ... Original Cast Album: Company; ... Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More; Z.
"Being Alive" was first recorded by Dean Jones, who originated the role of Robert on Broadway in 1970. After Jones's short tenure playing the role, his replacement Larry Kert also recorded the song, which has since been included as a bonus track on reissues of the original cast album.