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Information
- Year
- 2011
- Runtime
- 145 min.
- Director
- Lonny Price
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy, Musical
- Rating *
- 7.6
- Votes *
- 741
- Checks
- 65
- Favs
- 3
- Dislikes
- 0
- Favs/checks
- 4.6% (1:22)
- Favs/dislikes
- 3:0
Top comments
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Siskoid
The 2011 production of Stephen Sondheim's Company with Neil Patrick Harris in the lead, and lots of surprisingly effective TV stars, including Stephen Colbert, Jon Cryer and in a sad-hilarious turn, Christina Hendricks. I know people these days will remember Sondheim's more fantastical works first - Into the Woods and Sweeney Todd - but (and I'm not really an expert) Company might well be his masterwork. Here's a musical about what it means to be married, and what it means not to be, with a non-linear narrative and characters presented in vignettes, laugh-out-loud funny but nevertheless rather depressing. It shouldn't work, but does. I like the staging, with the New York Philharmonic right on the stage and almost part of the action, and the actors give textured, memorable performances that dramatize very well the play's inherent dichotomies, its joy and cynicism, and its presentation of an unattainable ideal. 8 years 10 months ago