Company
Company, one of the best Broadway shows you need to see, enters as the phone rings and the door chimes. Stephen Sondheim and George Furth wrote the Tony-winning musical Company. When the production made its Broadway debut in 1970, it was so well-received that, breaking a previous record, it received 14 Tony Award nominations and took home six of them.
Company is considered one of the first popular concept musicals. Company follows Bobby, who is single and surrounded by married people, on the eve of his 35th birthday. Instead of a linear story, in a series of disparate scenes, Bobby watches the interaction of his married friends and debates whether or not to settle down himself. Company may not have a traditional plot, but what it does have are songs that are now musical theatre anthems, such as “Being Alive,” “Not Getting Married Today,” and “The Ladies Who Lunch.”
Company has also featured many legendary performers from the world of musical theater, including Dean Jones and Elaine Stritch in the original production as well as Ral Esparza, Neil Patrick Harris, Katrina Lenk, and Patti LuPone in notable revivals.
- Ratings: N/A
- Website: https://companymusical.com/
- Theater: Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre
- Ticket Price: $59
