Originally released as a motion picture in 1970. Mono, full screen 1.33:1. Essay by author Mark Harris in container. Features: new audio commentary by composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim; audio commentary from 2001 featuring director D. A. Pennebaker, actor Elaine Stritch, and Broadway producer Harold Prince; new conversation among Sondheim, orchestrator Jonathan Tunick,and critic Frank Rich; new interview with Tunick on the art of orchestrating, conducted by author Ted Chapin; never-before-heard audio excerpts from interviews with Stritch and Prince, conducted by D. A. Pennebaker and Hegedus in 2000; episode "Originalcast album: Co-op" (2019) of the TV series "Documentary now!" that parodies the film; reunion of the cast and crew of "Original cast album: Co-op" recorded in 2020, featuring director Alexander Buono, writer-actor John Mulaney, actors Raenee Elise Goldsberry, Richard Kind, Alex Brightman, and Paula Pel, and composer Eli Bolin. Featuring Stephen Sondheim, Harold Prince, George Furth, Thomas Shepard, Dean Jones.
Summary:
Documents the eighteen-hour recording session for the album of Stephen Sondheim's Broadway musical "Company," featuring members of the original 1970 cast.
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