Company on Broadway Review. Sondheim’s musical, and live tribute.
“Company” is perfectly timed, sadly. Opening less than two weeks after the death of Stephen Sondheim at the age of 91, in a season delayed by more than a year and a half by the worldwide pandemic, this fourth Broadway revival of his 1970 musical couldn’t help but be emotional, thrilling, overwhelming.
It is also, as it turns out, sublimely entertaining.
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