"It's not so hard to be married,
It's much the simplest of crimes.
It's not so hard to be married,
I've done it three or four times.
It's people that you hate together,
Bait together,
Date together,
That make marriage a joy."

"In Company the songs are really outside the scenes rather than part of them. You can't guess so well in advance when the dialogue is building to a musical cue...[Rodgers and Hammerstein] took stories that appealed to them, generally sentimental stories, and the very sentimentality of the content dictated the form they chose. But Company.. is not sentimental. It needed a form to suit it's cooler, drier attitude."
-Stephen Sondheim

Set in New York,Company traces the relationships of Robert,a 35 year old confirmed bachelor and his mostly married friends.The action takes place on his 35th birthday and like an episode ofThe Twilight Zone, it all takes place in an instant. Each musical number is a scene. Presented in a series of vignettes,they shadow Robert's trials and triumphs on the road to understanding what "being Alive" is "really" about.

Company opened on April 26,1970 at the Alvin Theatre where it ran for 690 performances. Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, Book by GeorgeFurth,Produced by Harold Prince in association with Ruth Mitchell,Directed by Harold Prince,Musical Numbers Staged by Michael Bennett, Sets and Projections by Boris Aronson ,Costumes by D.D. Ryan, Lighting by Robert Ornbo Dance, Music Arranged by Wally Harper, Musical Direction by Harold Hastings, Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick. The show won 6 Tony Awards: Best Musical,Best Music, Best Lyrics, Best Book, Best Director and Best Scenic Design.
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