Original Cast Album Company
Original Cast Album: Company
Overview
In 1970, right after the triumphant premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s groundbreaking concept musical Company, the renowned composer and lyricist, his director Harold Prince, the show’s stars, and a large pit orchestra all went into a Manhattan recording studio as part of a time-honored Broadway tradition: the making of the original cast album. What ensued was a marathon session in which, with the pressures of posterity and the coolly exacting Sondheim’s perfectionism hanging over them, all involved pushed themselves to the limit.
Cast
Stephen Sondheim
Hal Prince
Elaine Stritch
Dean Jones
Pamela Myers
Beth Howland
Barbara Barrie
Charles Braswell
Susan Browning
George Coe
John Cunningham
Steve Elmore
George Furth
Harold Hastings
Charles Kimbrough
Merle Louise
Donna McKechnie
Teri Ralston
Thomas Z. Shepard
Crew
D. A. Pennebaker
Stephen Sondheim
Peter Hansen
Mark Woodcock
Kate Taylor
Christopher Dalrymple
Daniel Melnick
Robert Leacock
Chester Feldman
Delia Doherty
Harold Hastings
Judy Crichton
Mary Rodgers
D. A. Pennebaker
Richard Leacock
Robert Van Dyke
Stephen Sondheim