Company resumes its Broadway previews this week after a 20-month hiatus. There were just nine performances before New York’s theaters went dark last year due to the pandemic. Now the cast celebrates their return with a Tiny Desk performance filmed for NPR at the Civilian Hotel. The show, written in 1970 by Stephen Sondheim (score) and George Furth (book), was reconceived in 2018 by director Marianne Elliot. That acclaimed London production will finally open at Broadway’s Jacobs Theatre on December 9.
The concert cast includes Katrina Lenk, Matt Doyle, Christopher Fitzgerald, Christopher Sieber, Jennifer Simard, Terence Archie, Etai Benson, Bobby Conte, Nikki Renée Daniels, Claybourne Elder, Greg Hildreth, Anisha Nagarajan, Manu Narayan, and Rashidra Scott. The band includes Joel Fram (music direction), Paul Staroba (piano), Michael Blanco (bass), and Rich Rosenzweig (drums).
The set list includes “Company” (entire cast), “Someone Is Waiting” (Lenk), “Another Hundred People” (Conte), and “You Could Drive a Person Crazy” (Conte, Elder, and Narayan).