Awards

• Winner of Best Musical, Critics Circle Awards 2018

Overview

It's Bobbie's thirty-fifth birthday party, and all her friends are wondering why she isn't married. Why can't she find the right man, settle down and start a family? A breakthrough on Broadway in 1970, Company is Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's legendary musical comedy about life, love and loneliness, featuring some of Sondheim's most iconic songs including 'Company', 'You Could Drive a Person Crazy', 'The Ladies Who Lunch', 'Side by Side' and 'Being Alive'. The acclaimed West End revival in 2018 was conceived and directed by award-winning director Marianne Elliott and produced by Elliott & Harper Productions. Reimagining the musical by switching the gender of several characters, including the protagonist Bobbie, played by Rosalie Craig, the production also starred Patti LuPone, Mel Giedroyc and Jonathan Bailey. It won the Peter Hepple Award for Best Musical at the 2018 Critics' Circle Theatre Awards. This edition features the complete revised book and lyrics for the production, colour production photographs, and an introduction by Sondheim's biographer David Benedict. 'A magic mixture of New York grit and Broadway heart... the text stands alone as a razor-sharp piece of art - and a hugely significant musical renaissance… [this edition includes] a superb introduction by David Benedict... Company jumps off the page from the word go. It's a delight to read' — Broadway World 'An astonishing reinvention of a classic musical' — The Stage 'This is more than a revival: it is a remaking' — Observer 'A sublime cocktail of an entertainment… Sensational. Theatrical magic' — Daily Telegraph 'A game changer. I can't remember ever laughing more at a musical' — i 'Thrillingly inventive' — WhatsOnStage Best Musical, Critics Circle Awards

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'A magic mixture of New York grit and Broadway heart... the text stands alone as a razor-sharp piece of art - and a hugely significant musical renaissance… [this edition includes] a superb introduction by David Benedict... Company jumps off the page from the word go. It's a delight to read' * Broadway World * 'An astonishing reinvention of a classic musical' * The Stage * 'This is more than a revival: it is a remaking' * Observer * 'A sublime cocktail of an entertainment… Sensational. Theatrical magic' * Daily Telegraph * 'A game changer. I can't remember ever laughing more at a musical' * i * 'Thrillingly inventive' * WhatsOnStage *

'A magic mixture of New York grit and Broadway heart... the text stands alone as a razor-sharp piece of art - and a hugely significant musical renaissance... [this edition includes] a superb introduction by David Benedict... Company jumps off the page from the word go. It's a delight to read' * Broadway World * 'An astonishing reinvention of a classic musical' * The Stage * 'This is more than a revival: it is a remaking' * Observer * 'A sublime cocktail of an entertainment... Sensational. Theatrical magic' * Daily Telegraph * 'A game changer. I can't remember ever laughing more at a musical' * i * 'Thrillingly inventive' * WhatsOnStage *

Author Information

Stephen Sondheim (1930–2021) was a celebrated American composer and lyricist, one of the most important figures in 20th-century musical theatre. Sondheim started his theatre career by writing the lyrics for West Side Story (1957) and Gypsy (1959) before becoming a composer and lyricist. Sondheim's best-known works include A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), Company (1970), Follies (1971), A Little Night Music (1973), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979), Merrily We Roll Along (1981), Sunday in the Park with George (1984), and Into the Woods (1987). He won many awards including eight Tony Awards (including a Lifetime Achievement Tony in 2008), eight Grammy Awards, an Olivier Award, an Academy Award, a Pulitzer Prize, and the 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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