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The Criterion Collection will release D.A. Pennebaker s long-unavailable documentary
Original Cast Album: Company on DVD and Blu-ray on August 17. The film began streaming on the Criterion Channel in 2020.
This holy grail for both documentary and theater aficionados offers a rare glimpse behind the Broadway curtain. In 1970, right after the triumphant premiere of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth s groundbreaking concept musical C
ompany, the renowned composer and lyricist, 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 recording 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 including theater legend Elaine Stritch, who fought anxiety and exhaustion to record her iconic rendition of The Ladies Who Lu