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| re: COMPANY -- original ending/staging | |
| Posted by: BillEadie 12:30 pm EDT 08/11/20 | |
| In reply to: re: COMPANY -- original ending/staging - AlanScott 10:33 am EDT 08/10/20 | |
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| Alan, maybe you can clarify about the tour you referred to here. I saw “Company” in Los Angeles, with some of the original cast, and I distinctly remember the elevator (mainly because it set the scene so well). Was the production I saw not part of the tour, or did the tour go forward with a modified set? Thanks for any help you can give, Bill, in San Diego |
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| re: COMPANY -- original ending/staging | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 01:15 pm EDT 08/11/20 | |
| In reply to: re: COMPANY -- original ending/staging - BillEadie 12:30 pm EDT 08/11/20 | |
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| Thank you for supplying that information. I was under the impression that the tour never included the elevator, but it was in the set at the Ahmanson, where the tour started and played for three-and-a-half months, and perhaps also at the Curran, where it played next, for seven weeks. Los Angeles Times critic Dan Sullivan mentioned "girders and naked elevators" in a followup piece on the production at the Ahmanson. After the run at the Curran, for the next few months it played shorter engagements of one to three weeks. It may be that the elevator was dropped then. In January 1972, it switched to a bus-and-truck schedule, playing one- and two-night stands with occasional split weeks, until the D.C. run at the National in May, which was three weeks. But the elevator was not back for that run. After D.C. it had been announced for a run in Chicago, but that was canceled because of poor advance sales. Photos in the NYPL digital gallery suggest a significantly simplified production so I'm guessing they were taken a bit later, even when they show us the tour's original cast. I know that some (perhaps all) were shot in Toronto. |
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| re: COMPANY -- original ending/staging | |
| Posted by: bicoastal 12:17 pm EDT 08/12/20 | |
| In reply to: re: COMPANY -- original ending/staging - AlanScott 01:15 pm EDT 08/11/20 | |
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| I, too, saw the L.A. production and remember the elevator. I also saw Follies at the Shubert in L.A. and, though one rarely wishes one were older, I wish I had been old enough to really grasp the content of the shows then. At least I knew the score for Company going in, but Follies was all new to me so memories are somewhat hazy. | |
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