Company, Original Cast in Concert - Musical Numbers - Stephen Sondheim - Elaine Stritch 1993 

1:18:01 who is the shorter woman in the black dress (white at the bottom) who is standing next to Susan Browning???

Of all the effusive comments I could make about this electric history all I can think about is Donna’s back. 💕

Ahhhhhh...Elaine Stritch. She was great!! She OWNS “Ladies Who Lunch”!

Company is my all-time favorite musical. I saw the original production about as many times as Joanne was married and loved it the first time I saw it and ever since. I also saw it in LA the summer of 71 with a few original cast members in it (Stritch, Howland, Myers & Ralston) and I've seen every Broadway revival (except the current one that got closed down with the pandemic). I've seen a host of off-Broadway and non-professional productions and the 2011 NY Philharmonic semi-staged production. And, of course I saw this 23rd Anniversary concert (as it was billed at the time) twice. They did three performances over one weekend (April 11 & 12, 1993). I saw the two Saturday performances. To this day I don't think there was any subsequent performance I saw in which a performer was better than the one in the original cast. So, I was in heaven seeing the original cast again after so many years. Amazingly, most of the cast was as good as they were 23 years earlier. I fell in love with Patti LuPone when I first saw her as Lady Teazle in A School for Scandel several years before her breakthrough in Evita, but even she must bow to Elaine Stritch, the absolute definitive Joanne (she sort of did so after singing Ladies Who Lunch at a Philharmonic Sondheim concert a few years before the Philharmonic Company concert). Pamela Myers, who owns Another Hundred Days, may have outdone herself in this concert - I simply cannot imagine it ever done better. Beth Howland's rendition of (Not) Getting Married Today was perhaps a tad less coherent here than originally, but still awe inspiring. At this point I have to say I first saw Company a short time after Dean Jones had left the cast and loved Larry Kert as Bobby. So this concert was my first chance to see Dean Jones do the role. I was more impressed than I expected. The fact is I always felt Kert was probably better in the role because he had a better singing voice than Dean Jones (after all he was a musical theater professional who had created the role of Tony in West Side Story, while Jones was a visitor from the world of Disney movies). Some say Jones acted the role better, though I found Kert compelling, especially in the scene with Stritch's Joanne toward the end when she asks him something like when are we going to make it and they just stare at each other in silence until he gets up to sing the emotionally draining Being Alive. I just can't imagine it done better, but as most of the Book was jettisoned for this concert so I cannot really make any comparisons. There is also a bootleg video of the Long Beach, California concert that preceded this one by a month (according to a prior post here), which unfortunately, is not on You Tube. Good as that performance is (I've seen the video), this one is better. Performers often say that their performance can be affected by the audience. I think that was the case here. Perhaps I'm being a New York snob here, but sitting in the audience I just felt most people in there were long time Company lovers like me, and like me I expect many had seen the original Broadway production several times. Our reaction to the songs was so overwhelming that I suspect it just fed the cast's desire to give it their all. It was like a love fest. I often write notes on performances I see and in April 1993 I wrote this about this concert: "The electricity for both performances I saw could have lit up the City and when George Furth, Harold Prince and Stephen Sondheim came out to take their bows the theater was filled with excitement, love and warmth." Thanks for posting this and Happy 91st to the GREAT Stephen Sondheim without whom we would not have this masterpiece which has given me (and lots of other people) so much joy for over 50 years.

I'm in love of the Side by Side number. It's so simple, but so so entertaining!

I saw this original company 7 times (all except Dean Jones). My favorite production of all time of this show. Even met Elaine Stritch just before she left for the London production. I was in college and she invited us backstage after the show and took us on a tour of the set!

There is something grand to be said about originals of any art form.

The way Pam Myers phrases/places "and everyday some go away" gave me goosebumps.

Dean Jones is the best. My favorite version of COMPANY great performance!

This is an astounding and brilliant concert version of one of the three greatest musicals ever written with the best cast.. Bravo to them all and to Steve Sondheim for his unequalled score.

Dean Jones had one great voice. My favorite vocals in the part of Bobby in Company.

ℹ️ Larry Kert who actually performed the role of Bobby for all the performances after the show opened because of Dean Jones’s departure from the show died of AIDS at the age of 61 in 1991, less than two years before this reunion. 😢

I saw this when it was done in Long Beach, Ca. -BEFORE NY, which was done months later. In LB, it as hosted by Angela Lansbury - who sat in front of me watching the performance!

Every time I watch this I get choked up with tears, joy, and sadness for all the cast who are no longer with us, but remembered so well and so fondly. This is a precious gem as there seems to be no film of the original show, save the "Making Of" television show, for which we should be ever grateful as well. Thank you so much for this upload!

I saw it with all of them. It was astounding then and now, I am bowled over because I'm older, wiser and experience it on a deeper level than before. All of them are wonderful and the best performers. And Dean Jones, with Being Alive, sends it home. Crying over this. First time I was 18.

Love, love, love this musical. Saw the original cast in 1970 on Broadway.

The most astonishing performance here, is from the least experienced vocalist. Beth Howland manages the virtually impossible task of singing >Not getting Married today", just as she had two decades before she manages the original tempo, and the lyric and still somehow, periodically takes a breath.

The work of geniuses. Sondheim. Prince. Bennett. Furth.

I absolutely love this play. It is amazing to me that all the original cast kept themselves up physically and vocally to come back to give us all such a treat. Thank you!

Love the original cast! :)

I was still a frequent theatre goer when this was done. I don't know how I missed it

1:09:26 - Elaine giving her all and then some... I'll drink to that.

WOW....I've been looking for this FOREVER....anything related to the original cast,,,and here,you have done it! Kudos to you,and thank you. Now,if I could only find "Mame"....*sigh*

Thanks for posting the entire reunion show.

I wish each show would be recorded, video as well as audio, for historical reasons.

Thank you SO much for sharing this amazing show. As others have said it truly is a gem and I really appreciate having had the opportunity to see it.

Thank you very much Damien. This is super. Sadly some of these actors are no longer among us, but they did a marvelous job.

Priceless. Thank you so much for sharing this. Nothing like the original cast... of ANYTHING! And what a cast this is. Nice to see George Coe (RIP); he was the man who introduced me to Mr' Sondheim, at the opening night party for the "Into the Woods" premiere in San Diego. Sondheim was so gracious and amiable to me, listened kindly to my stuttering praise, then turned on a dime, went back to his personal guests, and that was it. He was a real pro: courteous and available to a fan (for the moment), then back to his own life without being rude. I'm going to subscribe to your list of videos. Again, thank you!

THANK YOU for posting this - extraordinarily wonderful. Dean Jones seemed even richer and more affecting than the original run! now, can you find an original cast performance of DREAMGIRLS for us, please!

Gee, I wish this version of "Company" was produced with quality. This the original with Dean Jones. Maybe one will pop up someday.

Thank you! Ever since I saw those clips of Ladies Who Lunch, Another Hundred People, Company, I was hoping someday someone would upload the full thing, and you have! So thank you so much!!!

Bless you, Damien.Thank you so much!!!!

This is so wonderful...

Am so glad I found this video. I did not know anything about Company until I saw a documentary on PBS about the making of its soundtrack by DA Pennebaker. I was so impressed that I bought the album. Years later the documentary came out again, narrated by Company's producer, Hal Prince and the incomparable Elaine Stritch. It wasn't until then that I learned why Dean Jones left the show right after the opening. According to Hal, Dean's marriage was falling apart, he hated NYC and needed to get out of his contract to get his personal life in order. I could tell in the documentary that something was wrong. He was irritable, distracted and unfocused. Hal said he had no idea what was wrong until he talked to Dean. Afterwards, he told Dean he could leave after the opening, in which he was replaced by Larry Kert. As great as Larry was in the part of "Bobby", it is a shame that Dean had to leave the cast, for he more than likely would have won a Tony. The part of "Bobby" was made for him. This video proves that. Anyway, I want to pay tribute to members of the original "Company" who are no longer with us (there are probably more that I am not aware of): George Furth (playwright), Hal Prince (Producer and Director), Michael Bennett (choreographer), Elaine Stritch ("Joanne"), Susan Browning ("April"), Dean Jones ("Bobby"), and Beth Howland ("Amy"). RIP.

How awesome! I didn't even know this existed. I just did Company as part of the vocal ensemble, so this will be fun to watch! Thanks for sharing!

Tic TOC disappeared for awhile. Donna became striken with rheumatoid arthritis which she concurred! Bennett placed the dance feacherig her talent. Pre ' Chorus Line'

What a gem!! So happy this is on RU-vid! Thank you! :D

I saw this close to the end of the Boston tryout. The running order of the songs at that time was the same as in this recording, but as I recall the Playbill listed them differently. "The Ladies who Lunch" was titled "Drinking Song," and I believe that the duo of "What Would I Do..." and "Side by Side by Side" occupied its place just before "Being Alive." That must have been the order of the songs at the start of the tryout.;

Woooww.. thats my favorite musical! Thanks a lot!

I love Raul Esparza, but no one, and I mean NO ONE can touch Dean Jones in the role of Robert. Elaine Stritch admitted it herself in an interview. What a shame that Mr. Jones left the show shortly after it opened. He would have assuredly won the Tony Award. By the way , if Mr. Jones had stayed with the show, and if the original Broadway production cast had gotten half of this adulation from the audiences , the show would have run for five years.

Thank you for posting this. I didn't even know they'd done this 20 yrs. down the road. PBS really dropped the ball on not recording this one. Good memories. This was the musical I chose to see on my senior class trip to NYC in 1971--unfortunately without Dean Jones, it was Larry Kert instead--but with the rest of the brilliant original cast. My admiration for it only grows year after year. What a Landmark.

This is fantastic.

It's a crime that so many productions of the show cut out Tick Tock. That instrumental and dance are godly.

Bless you! I love this!

I saw this twice in London

Thank you, THANK YOU! I've been looking for a full-length video with the original cast of *Company* and here it is (minus two performers)! Damien, not your faulty at all but is there any way to "clean up" this vid? This great musical merits better sound and picture quality! Strange too, that it's been bypassed for a TV version (I'm not counting the Neil Patrick Harris concert-version, I'm looking for full-dress as was done on Broadway). Anyway, so so glad to see this - again, many thanks!

re the bizarre comment below claiming dean jones left the show before it arrived in new york due to vocal problems: pure falsehood. dean jones left the cast because he was going through a deeply painful divorce. his agreement with hal prince allowed him out of his contract if he would open the show and record the cast album -- larry kert was already engaged to replace him. jones performed opening night at the alvin theater on broadway april 26, 1970 through may 28, 1970. this history has all been well-known from the time it happened; there has never been an alternative narrative. why people make up this kind of rubbish about departed artists is a mystery that does not fascinate. jones was the first choice of sondheim and prince -- they were sorry to lose him -- in no small part because of his amazing, unstoppable, singing voice.

What year did they film this?! This is everything.

I was introduced to Company with the 2006 Raul Esparza production. Although I prefer that one, I like the original sound of this production.

a better copy ? where ?

Out of curiosity, were they doing choreography from the original run back in 1970?

1:06:00.......I love this song!!!

Was "Marry Me a Little" in the original show or added after it opened?

is there a better dvd to buy of this?

For whatever reason "Marry Me A Little" wasn't included. Bummer. But thank you for the video.