To be honest, they sound almost exact to the 1970 recording. You'd never know they aged. If you listened close, you could tell but...they really sound good!
He would hate to be remembered "especially for West Side Story" of all shows,when he was embarrassed by almost all of his contribution to it. What an ill advised choice when you could have picked any one of the shows for which the great Sondheim wrote both music and lyrics.
@@michaelsharpe5758 easy there bucko. We are all distraught this past week, but no need to lay judgement on Janette like that. West Side Story is a masterpiece and the lyrics add to that immensely. Take care.
Until I saw the Pennebaker/Hegedus documentary of the Original Cast Recording I thought Dean Jones was just an actor in goofball Disney films. His performance of Being Alive is timeless & brilliant. The whole documentary is a meditation to the creative process. It is currently on RU-vid. Not to be missed. Sondheim’s singular genius will be missed.
The description does not include anything about when and where this took place. According to the description of another RU-vid video of this the performance (link below) it occurred on 23 January 1993 (so almost 23 years after it debuted on Broadway on 26 April 1970) in Long Beach, California. According to the description for that video the performance was repeated the following April in New York City. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-H4IflVde1Is.html
Burt Bacharach gave us a musical masterpiece, that in fact paved the road for Company. I love Stephan’s show especially the OBC, but cmon! London won’t even bring it back. The London Philharmonic gave respect with recording the Overture and title song. I wish they would just put on the tire production. Like the New York Philharmonic did for Company
I consider myself extremely fortunate to have seen Company with the original cast, although I did not see Dean Jones as Bobby because he left the show early and I think walked away from a career in show business. What a pity - he had a really nice persona. I regret I probably will not see the new production on Broadway now. I would see anything directed by Marianne Elliott, including a reading of the telephone book. Think of her credits: War Horse, Curious Dog, and the magnificent Angels in America with Andrew Garfield giving the most gut-wrenching performance I think I have ever seen on a stage, including Stephen Spinella who sent me out of the theatre after the second part of Angels and straight to a bar to calm me down.
Here's the second-act opening from the same NY performance: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rGM73HUliL4.html . And here are excerpts from the first reunion concert, earlier the same year, in CA.: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-H4IflVde1Is.html
I saw the first reunion concert in CA. They did a concert version of the entire show, somewhat akin to what was done for "Follies" in 1985 (though slightly less staged, as I remember it). It was generally excellent, and the voices had held up well... though Stritch flubbed "Ladies Who Lunch" noticeably.
