Company original cast album

Blu-ray 2021

"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 Price, 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 or...

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Musicals Excerpts

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Sondheim, Stephen. Company

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Documentary films Video recordings for hard of hearing people

Part of a Series:

Criterion collection Criterion collection ; 1090 The Criterion collection The Criterion collection ; 1090

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ISBN:

9781681438672
1681438674

Edition:

Blu-ray special edition

Description:

1 videodisc (53 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
digital
optical
mono
videodisc
Blu-ray
video file
Blu-ray

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated

Other Title:

Original cast album Company

Notes:

Originally released as a documentary film in 1970
Special features: 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 (2020)
Musical numbers staged by Michael Bennett ; book by George Furth ; production director, Harold Prince ; cinematographers, Jim Desmond, Richard Leacock, D.A. Pennebaker ; orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick
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
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)
System requirements: Blu-ray player ; will not play on standard DVD players
Blu-ray, region A; full screen (1.33:1 aspect ratio); monaural; requires Blu-ray player

Control Number:

3080572

UPC:

715515263115

Other Authors:

Barrie, Barbara, performer
Coe, George, performer
Cunningham, John, 1932- performer
Feldman, Chester, 1926-1997
Furth, George, 1932-2008, on-screen participant
Hastings, Hal, 1916-1973, conductor
Janus Films, presenter
Jones, Dean, 1931-2015, performer
Kimbrough, Charles, performer
Prince, Harold, 1928-2019, on-screen participant
Ralston, Teri, performer
Shepard, Thomas Z. (Thomas Zachary), 1936- on-screen participant
Sondheim, Stephen, on-screen participant
Stritch, Elaine, performer

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