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Company : original cast album / Pennebaker Associates Inc. presents ; Talent Associates-Norton Simon Inc. in association with Castle Drive Productions ; a film by D.A. Pennebaker ; music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim ; produced by Chester Feldman, Judy Crichton.

DVD special edition.

[New York, New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2021]

©2021

1 videodisc (53 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

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DVD video

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D. A. Pennebaker's up-close view of the recording of the original cast album for Stephen Sondheim's groundbreaking concept musical Company is the holy grail for both documentary and theater aficionados, a rare glimpse behind the Broadway curtain.

The Criterion collection ; 1090

Criterion collection ; 1090.

Sondheim, Stephen. Company.

Musicals -- Production and direction.

Musicals -- Excerpts.

Documentary films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Sondheim, Stephen, on-screen participant.

Prince, Harold, 1928-2019, on-screen participant.

Furth, George, 1932-2008, on-screen participant.

Shepard, Thomas Z. (Thomas Zachary), 1936- on-screen participant.

Pennebaker, D. A., film director, director of photography.

Feldman, Chester, film producer.

Crichton, Judy, film producer.

Jones, Dean, 1931-2015, performer.

Stritch, Elaine, performer.

Barrie, Barbara, performer.

Coe, George, performer.

Cunningham, John, 1932- performer.

Ralston, Teri, performer.

Kimbrough, Charles, performer.

McKechnie, Donna, performer.

Braswell, Charles, 1924-1974, performer.

Browning, Susan, performer.

Elmore, Steve, performer.

Howland, Beth, 1941-2015, performer.

Myers, Pamela, performer.

Louise, Merle, performer.

Hastings, Hal, 1916-1973, conductor.

Sondheim, Stephen. Company. Selections.

Pennebaker Associates, presenter.

Talent Associates, production company.

Norton Simon Inc., production company.

Castle Drive Productions, production company.

Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.

Original cast album Company

Originally released as a documentary film in 1970.

Accompanying insert (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 x 690 cm, folded to 19 x12 cm) comprises full credits and essay by journalist and film historian Mark Harris.

Special features: New audio commentary by composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim; audio commentary featuring director D.A. Pennebaker, actor Elaine Stritch, and Broadway producer and director, Harold Prince (2001); new conversation among Sondheim, orchestrator Jonathan Tunick, and critic and television producer 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 (2001); Original cast album : Co-Op (2019 episode of the TV series Documentary now! that parodies the film); reunion of the cast and crew of Original cast album : Co-Op (2020).

Musical numbers staged by Michael Bennett ; book by George Furth ; production director, Harold Prince ; cinematographers, Jim Desmond, Richard Leacock, D.A. Pennebaker.

Featuring, Stephen Sondheim, Harold Prince, George Furth, Thomas Z. Shepard, Dean Jones, Elaine Stritch, Barbara Barrie, George Coe, John Cunningham, Teri Ralston, Charles Kimbrough, Donna McKechnie, Charles Braswell, Susan Browning, Steve Elmore, Beth Howland, Pamela Myers, Merle Louise ; conductor, Harold Hastings.

DVD; NTSC; region 1; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby monaural.

Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

Company -- You could drive a person crazy -- Getting married today -- Another hundred people -- The little things you do together -- Being alive -- Side by side -- Barcelona -- The ladies who lunch.

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