Original Cast Album: Company
|Original Cast Album: Company
Status: Released
Runtime: 53
Release Date: 28/10/1970
Origin Language: en
Origin Country: US
Languages: English
Production: Docurama
Countries: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0 (0)
Documentary
Music
In 1970, right after the triumphant premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s groundbreaking concept musical Company, the renowned composer and lyricist, his 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 making 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.
