Company

[couldileaveyou]

Jan 16, 2019 14:54:21 GMT jeffrey said:

Jan 16, 2019 14:24:05 GMT @ryan said:

Oh I don't know. I love a bit of interpretive dance every now and again. Tres hilar!

I also love "a bit" but Another Hundred People goes on and on repeating essentially the same visuals without any payoff.

And with very poor vocals

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I like Another Hundred People, I'll be the one person. But it does help George and Richard are sexy and there is some man on man action going on in the background. 😂

[freckles]

Jan 16, 2019 14:54:21 GMT jeffrey said:

Jan 16, 2019 14:24:05 GMT @ryan said:

Oh I don't know. I love a bit of interpretive dance every now and again. Tres hilar!

I also love "a bit" but Another Hundred People goes on and on repeating essentially the same visuals without any payoff.

But isn’t the repetition the point? Echoing the lyric.

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Patti's Q&A is now up. Very funny!

[alece10]

Jan 19, 2019 10:05:01 GMT danieljohnson14 said:

Patti's Q&A is now up. Very funny!

Just watched it
Very good.do you know the answer to her question at the end about her glasses?

[Someone in a tree]

Thanks for sharing

Pattie looks great in post modern Norma turban

Im now tempted to try Giovanni's restaurant, the menu looks scrummy

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Jan 19, 2019 11:37:56 GMT alece10 said:

Jan 19, 2019 10:05:01 GMT danieljohnson14 said:

Patti's Q&A is now up. Very funny!

Just watched it
Very good.do you know the answer to her question at the end about her glasses?

I don't, but I imagine @ryan can answer that question!

[LaLuPone]

Jan 19, 2019 12:00:38 GMT Someone in a tree said:

Thanks for sharing

Pattie looks great in post modern Norma turban

Im now tempted to try Giovanni's restaurant, the menu looks scrummy

I've already decided I'm going to go there before Waitress next month!

[Polly1]

This is great! Who or what is Irene the Tuba?

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Jan 19, 2019 13:32:44 GMT Polly1 said:

This is great! Who or what is Irene the Tuba?

The Tuba that Patti played in the revival of Sweeny Todd on Broadway, where it was an actor-musician production. Patti played the Tuba on this production, as well as Mrs. Lovett.

[zak97]

If Patti was to have played an instrument it just had to be a tuba. Tuba has Patti all over it.

[Polly1]

Jan 19, 2019 13:35:09 GMT danieljohnson14 said:

Jan 19, 2019 13:32:44 GMT Polly1 said:

This is great! Who or what is Irene the Tuba?

The Tuba that Patti played in the revival of Sweeny Todd on Broadway, where it was an actor-musician production. Patti played the Tuba on this production, as well as Mrs. Lovett.

That must have been something to behold! Good for her

[Deleted]

I have a question. I've just been looking at the Wikipedia page for Company and the Awards and Nominations section caught my eye. In the Original Production, six performances were nominated (none won):

Larry Kert (Bobby) - or Bobbie
Elaine Stritch (Joanne)
Susan Browning (April) - or Andy
Charles Kimbrough (Harry)
Barbara Barrie (Sarah)
Pamela Myers (Marta) - or PJ

But what really caught my attention was that whilst four of these performances were in the correct catagory, Elaine and Susan were nominated for Leading Actress even though their roles are very much Featured. Is it just because of the amount of nominees for Company? Was it a particularly weak year so they were just placed there or was it just because those two roles are arguable standout roles?

It's also really interesting to see Beth Howland wasn't nominated as Amy (or Jamie, as we know it!), whilst that role has been nominated for both a Tony and twice for an Olivier since (well, once officially, but we all know Jonathan's getting a nomination!) 😂

[couldileaveyou]

Some roles have been nominated for both leading and supporting actor awards, most notably the Emcee in Cabaret and Anna in the King and I, I guess it depends on the producers and the goodness of the season. With a male Bobby considering Joanne a leading role has some sense, it's the character with more stage time after him, and the most prominent female role. But I think that since then it has always been considered a supporting role, and with a female Bobbie as the protagonist Joanne is definitely a featured part.

[ali973]

Jan 19, 2019 10:05:01 GMT danieljohnson14 said:

Patti's Q&A is now up. Very funny!

My good friend and former class mate is Bob Bullen who asks her about the Vodka Stinger. 

On another note..when is the cast recording come out?! The show is nearly closing. 

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Jan 19, 2019 14:09:00 GMT ali973 said:

On another note..when is the cast recording come out?! The show is nearly closing. 

My guess would be the final few weeks of the run in March. I think they're holding it off to maintain ticket sales. Whilst they could make money on the sale of the product on the merch stall for people like me I'll keep buying seats until I have a the soundtrack to listen to and I guess thats the logic they're working with.

[sf]

Jan 19, 2019 13:47:23 GMT danieljohnson14 said:

But what really caught my attention was that whilst four of these performances were in the correct catagory, Elaine and Susan were nominated for Leading Actress even though their roles are very much Featured. Is it just because of the amount of nominees for Company? Was it a particularly weak year so they were just placed there or was it just because those two roles are arguable standout roles?

Whether a role is considered leading or featured at the Tony Awards depends on billing as much as anything else, and then a producer can apply to the committee to consider a role in a different category. I would guess Elaine Stritch was nominated in the leading actress category based on billing - she wasn't billed above the title, which is what usually puts a role in the leading category, but she got an 'and Elaine Stritch' on the poster when everyone else apart from the actor playing Robert was billed alphabetically - and that the producers petitioned to get Susan Browning moved from the featured to the leading category, where they expected to get nominations for other performers.

[missthelma]

Jan 19, 2019 13:47:23 GMT danieljohnson14 said:

I have a question. I've just been looking at the Wikipedia page for Company and the Awards and Nominations section caught my eye. In the Original Production, six performances were nominated (none won):

Larry Kert (Bobby) - or Bobbie
Elaine Stritch (Joanne)
Susan Browning (April) - or Andy
Charles Kimbrough (Harry)
Barbara Barrie (Sarah)
Pamela Myers (Marta) - or PJ

But what really caught my attention was that whilst four of these performances were in the correct catagory, Elaine and Susan were nominated for Leading Actress even though their roles are very much Featured. Is it just because of the amount of nominees for Company? Was it a particularly weak year so they were just placed there or was it just because those two roles are arguable standout roles?

It's also really interesting to see Beth Howland wasn't nominated as Amy (or Jamie, as we know it!), whilst that role has been nominated for both a Tony and twice for an Olivier since (well, once officially, but we all know Jonathan's getting a nomination!) 😂

It's a while since I had my book on The Tony Awards which detailed all their rules and regulations. I remember in the early days of the award a person's billing on the poster dictated their nomination placement, that led to a lot of questionable awards, Maureen Stapleton for example won the Best Featured Actress Tony in a Play in 1951 (?) for her clear leading role as Serafina in The Rose Tattoo.  But, she was billed under the title as she was not yet the stage legend she became later hence she could only be considered featured by the Tony rules then. That was not the only idiotic result which led to a rule change at some point, I thought it had gone by 70/71 and Company but it may explain the placements. Interestingly even now when the committee have their meetings  to discuss the awards they sometimes make an announcement which says something like 'all other decisions consistent with first night billing' so maybe it's still a thing in the rules? Plus you can petition for your category placement.

I saw Company last night in fact but will say more when I come down off the ceiling!! SO GOOD!!

[princeton]

sf is right - the starting point for Tony eligibility is the first night billing. However there have been quite a few exceptions to that - and producers can request (though not insist) that actors are sometimes considered in categories which run counter to their billing.  This has happened a few times - and some make little sense. For example, in the original 1987 production of 'Fences' Mary Alice won Best Featured Actress for playing Rose, while in the 2010 revival Viola Davis won Best Leading Actress for the same role (she then won the Supporting Actress Oscar for the film version!).  Likewise Geraldine Page was nominated as Best Leading Actress for playing Madame Arcardi in Blithe Spirit (1987) whilst Angela Lansbury won the Best Featured Actress Tony for the same role in 2009. No consistency at all.

Company was even more complicated. The entire cast, excluding covers, was billed above the title - though in varying different sized fonts. Dean Jones who created the part of Bobby, had top billing - and in the largest type - but he only stayed with the production for a few weeks after in opened - so his replacement Larry Kert was actually nominated for the Tony as Best Leading Actor.  Elaine Stritch - who arguably had second billing - at the end with an and and in slightly larger font from most for the cast - was considered Best Leading Actress along with Susan Browning (April) - who was way down the cast list.  Barbara Barrie - playing Sarah - was billed immediately below Jones/Kert and the same size as Stritch - and yet was in the Featured Actress Category.  All most confusing (I was trying to find a photo of the billing which could post - but have failed).

Perhaps also worth noting that Sheila Gish won Best Supporting Performance in a Musical at the 1996 Olivier Awards for playing Joanne in the Donmar production. She was up against Sophie Thompson as Amy. So there is precedent for Joanne as supporting and I can't see that there's any way the producers would want to have Rosalie Craig and Patti LuPone up against each other in the leading actress category this year.

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I think in a year this competitive for Actress, there is no way they'd push for Patti in that catagory when she has a chance winning Supporting Actress. I'd be shocked.

[ensembleswings]

Finally got the chance to see this last week and absolutely loved it. I wasn't too sure whether I would or not before going in mainly due to the amount people were raving about it but it exceeded expectations. Really hoping I can fit in another trip but sit further back (I was row b of stalls) and be able to take everything in.

[distantcousin]

Has a brochure been produced? Would love to get some decent sized, glossy production photos...

[ali973]

^ I was thinking of that just recently. Would love to pick up a copy when I see the final show!

[jampot]

Jan 21, 2019 10:13:50 GMT distantcousin said:

Has a brochure been produced? Would love to get some decent sized, glossy production photos...

The full revised book is avaialble next month (7th) with colour production pics...

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Regardless of profession, who among us does not dream of having their name in the largest font at least once in life? Or at least an "and _______."