Original Cast Album: Company (1970)

Director: D. A. Pennebaker

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.

Cast

Stephen Sondheim

Self

Hal Prince

Self

Elaine Stritch

Self / Joanne

Dean Jones

Self / Bobby

Pamela Myers

Self / Marta

Beth Howland

Self / Amy

Barbara Barrie

Self / Sarah

Charles Braswell

Self / Larry

Susan Browning

Self / April

George Coe

Self / David