| re: COMPANY -- original ending/staging | |
| Posted by: IThespis 09:31 pm EDT 08/09/20 | |
| In reply to: COMPANY -- original ending/staging - MRH 04:44 pm EDT 08/07/20 | |
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| In late '81I saw the 4th preview, the 12th and the 17th. A week after the official opening I saw it twice. I've no memory of any "original opening number being the greatest staging in Broadway history" as you say you read somewhere. Little of the show could be said to be greatest anything, although the score is a delight, won a Tony. And the ending was chilling! Especially for those of us who had been there, done that. The opening number I remember was Franklin Shepherd addressing a graduation class of his high school. Song. Franklin is a successful producer and talented former songwriter. The scene then fades to Franklin hosting a lavish party at his Hollywood house and the story unfolds about Franklin, his former best-friend and partner Charley and former best-friend Mary. You see & hear a scene, hear a song ….. then merrily we roll along back to the next scene, one earlier in their lives. Each scene marches back in time and you see Franklin and Charley successful, Mary, too, then merrily we roll along back to trouble in relationships, then how careers began, then how all met, and in the terrific ending, kids on rooftops watching Sputnik in 1957. For them, anything was possible. In previews the show dropped an opening swimming pool, added sweatshirts with names of characters on them, probably dropped some book lines to quicken the pace. I really didn[t see much change show to show. |
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