Keeping Company with Sondheim (2022)
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Filmed over two years, this new documentary takes an exclusive inside look at Tony-winning director Marianne Elliott’s creative process of bringing a reimagined gender-swapped production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s musical Company to Broadway during the COVID-19 pandemic. Featuring rehearsal and performance footage, plus new interviews with Elliott, Sondheim, Katrina Lenk, Patti LuPone and members of the original 1970 cast, the broadcast tells the story of the show’s Broadway debut in a city on the verge of bankruptcy to its reimagination 50 years later as both Broadway and New York City emerge from one of the greatest crises in contemporary history.
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Stephen SondheimSelf
Patti LuPoneSelf / Joanne
Lin-Manuel MirandaSelf
Cynthia NixonSelf
Donna McKechnieSelf
Pamela MyersSelf
Adrian LesterSelf / Bobby (archive footage)
Terence ArchieSelf / Larry
Bobby Conte ThorntonSelf / P.J.Nikki Renée DanielsSelf / Jenny
Claybourne ElderSelf / Andy
Manu NarayanSelf / TheoMovie DNA
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Filmed over two years, this new documentary takes an exclusive inside look at Tony-winning director Marianne Elliott’s creative process of bringing a reimagined gender-swapped production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s musical Company to Broadway during the COVID-19 pandemic. Featuring rehearsal and performance footage, plus new interviews with Elliott, Sondheim, Katrina Lenk, Patti LuPone and members of the original 1970 cast, the broadcast tells the story of the show’s Broadway debut in a city on the verge of bankruptcy to its reimagination 50 years later as both Broadway and New York City emerge from one of the greatest crises in contemporary history.