Company - A Musical Comedy (1970 Original Broadway Cast)
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Music CD Cover Edition: Music CD Format: Cast Recording, Extra tracks, Original recording remastered CD Release Date: 1998-11-10 Music Label: Sony Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Company - A Musical Comedy (1970 Original Broadway Cast) Album
Free Music Review: Classic Sondheim
Hit: 5 Stars
I can't believe I waited 30 years to hear the original cast recording of Company! This soundtrack is a must-have for any Sondheim fan. While it does not have the musical sophistication or depth of his later works, Sondheim's signature rhythms and lyrics appear in all their glory in this 1970 production. The theme of the play is love and marriage as seen through the eyes of the cast's only single character, Bobby (Dean Stockwell). As he searches for Miss Right, there's always another underlying search--for a reason to find Miss Right. Along the way, you meet his friends, all in various states of marital committment. The strong cast features Elaine Stritch, Charles Kimbrough, Pamela Meyers, and Beth Howland among others.
The play's lyrics are unflinching in their view of relationships, beautifully describing the interwoven joys and headaches that accompany committment. Most numbers are done in the style which has become synonymous with Sondheim--all characters singing intricately woven pseudo-melodies which add up to more than just the sum of the parts--sort of like a musical Seurat painting.
The recording has several highlights for me. Someone is Waiting, sung by Stockwell, is a subtly clever fantasy about the perfect woman. Bobby combines characteristics of all his female friends, coming up with a perfectly stunning, perfectly impossible Perfect Woman. Another favorite of mine is Getting Married Today, a musical panic attack sung with deft hysteria by Beth Howland. (What's a wedding? It's a prehistoric ritual where everybody promises fidelity forever which is maybe the most horrifying word I ever heard...)
Insight, humor, and musical derring-do make the original soundtrack of Stephen Sondheim's Company an essential for any good Broadway collection.