Original Cast Album: Company
In 1970, right after the triumphant premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s groundbreaking concept musical Company, the renowned composer and lyricist, his director Harold Prince, the show’s stars, and a large pit orchestra all went into a Manhattan recording studio as part of a time-honored Broadway tradition: the making of the original cast album. What ensued was a marathon session in which, with the pressures of posterity and the coolly exacting Sondheim’s perfectionism hanging over them, all involved pushed themselves to the limit.
Genre: Documentary, Music
Director: D. A. Pennebaker
Actors: Barbara Barrie, Beth Howland, Charles Braswell, Dean Jones, Elaine Stritch, George Coe, Hal Prince, Pamela Myers, Stephen Sondheim, Susan Browning