Company

Synopsis

It's Robert's 30th birthday. He seems to have everything: good looks, charm and a great sense of humour, and yet he is single. In Company, he watches the lives of his friends; five very different New York couples, and reflects on the joys and pitfalls of relationships. Presented in a series of vignettes through Robert's eyes, we see in their lives the less than ideal aspects of marriage...and yet there must be some reason why they stay together. A huge success when first performed in 1970, this show will make you laugh all evening and stay up thinking about it all night afterwards.

Our Review:

26 May 2009

Even now, Company still feels like a new sort of musical, a smart and sassy series of mordant marital sketches in the style of Jules Feiffer conceptually glued to a sexually confused bachelor’s thirty-fifth birthday party, and his sexual identity crisis.

This was the first of six Broadway collaborations between Stephen Sondheim and Harold Prince, and I haven’t enjoyed the piece so much since I saw it three times during the first London run at Her Majesty’s.

In fact, with A Little Night Music revived at the Garrick, we have the only Sondheim/Prince London commercial successes available to prove clearly why this was so. They are both masterpieces, complete in their different ways, musically brilliant and superbly crafted. I love most of Follies, some of Sweeney Todd and all of Into the Woods (not sure about Pacific Overtures), but Company is, and always has been, very specia...

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Latest User Review

SJ - 28 May 2009:

I 'LOVED' this!! Go and see it now before you regret it. It was great at the 'Union' really up close to the actors, who were all fab. But I have to say Lucy Williamson's 'Ladies who Lunch' was class - stole the show for me. This is a MUST see show!...

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