The run closed January 1, 1972
- Opened
- April 26, 1970
- Closed
- January 1, 1972
- Performances
- 705
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Neil Simon Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 37th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Company 6 more that season
| 1972 | Her Majesty's Theatre Transfer | |
| 1993 | Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · Harold Prince | 2 perf. |
| 1995 | Criterion Center Stage Right Revival · Scott Ellis | 68 perf. |
| 2006 | Ethel Barrymore Theatre Revival · John Doyle | 246 perf. |
| 2006 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 2021 | Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre Revival · Marianne Elliott | 300 perf. |
Who was in it34 named
Cathy Corkill
Carol Gelfand
Marilyn Saunders
Dona D Vaughn
Eileen Barnett
Kenneth Cory
Marian Hailey
Cynthia Harris
Audrey Johnson
Jane A Johnston
Kenneth Kimmins
Gary Krawford
Shirley Lemmon
Annie Mcgreevey
Carol Richards
Brenda Thomson
18 of these 34 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 16 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters14 roles recorded
Dean Jones Robert
Elaine Stritch Joanne
Charles Braswell Larry
Beth Howland Amy
Steve Elmore Paul
Barbara Barrie Sarah
Charles Kimbrough Harry
Merle Louise Susan
John Cunningham Peter
Teri Ralston Jenny
George Coe David
Susan Browning April
Pamela Myers Marta
Donna McKechnie Kathy
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Harold Prince
- Choreographer
- Michael Bennett
- Producer
- Harold Prince
- Orchestrations
- Jonathan Tunick
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 6 from 14 nominations
| Best Musical | Won |
Recordings 10 held for the work
None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Company, and nothing in the record says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.
Around this production
Dean Jones left the show after just a few weeks due to a nervous breakdown. The cast album was recorded on a single marathon day before he departed.
Burt Bacharach, who I knew slightly, came to New York to do Promises, Promises. He called me and said, “You’re one of the few people I know in the theatre—who should orchestrate the show?” I said, “This guy named Jonathan Tunick strikes me as terrific.” I heard the stuff for Promises. Between that and How Do You Do? I…
Speaker not recorded. The Sound of Broadway Music A Book of Orchestrators and Steven Suskin Oxford Uni, p. 527- Not quite the format for a long-running smash, perhaps, but the show’s innovations did turn up in later productions such as Company and A Chorus Line(non-linear stories), Hallelujah, Baby! (characters did not age over a long period of time), and Chicago (conceived as “A Musical Vaudeville”). Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 162
- The musical bore a certain kinship with Company, which also was about jaded, ambivalent characters, took a disenchanted view of marriage, and used the structural device of a party to bring a group of people together. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Green Stanley Green Kay 5th Ed Rev and Updated By, p. 256
- the 1970s institutionalized the concept musical as a viable alternative to the traditional book musical (Stephen Sondheim’s Company , Follies , and Pacific Overtures ) Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 3
- It reminded one critic of the musical Company, which examines the relationships of the leading male character with his friends. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 295
- Harold Prince is the most successful producer/ director of the second half of the 20th century. He expanded the art form of musical theater first as a producer with his collaborations with Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick. He continued to refine and improve the art form through highly successful collaborations with John… Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 446
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- Which of the 10 recordings of Company document this run, if any.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.