Raúl Esparza sings "Company" - Company revival
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- "Opening" is reprised throughout the DVD of the 2006 revival of Company. This video contains two excerpts of the song followed by Raúl Esparza and cast singing "Company."
0:00 Opening - part 1
1:33 Opening - part 2
3:13 Company
This video includes excerpts from the highly recommended 2008 PBS DVD "Company." The DVD is Region 1 only (US/Canada DVD players or worldwide PC DVD players).
In 2007, "Company" won Tony Awards for "Best Revival of a Musical" and "Best Direction of a Musical (John Doyle)." Raúl was nominated for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical. The original 1970 production was nominated for 12 Tony awards and won 6 of them.
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I caught this late night on pbs about 10 years ago. I was on shrooms and stumbled upon it right at the beginning. Watched the whole thing and was blown away!
Guy sure knew how to write a killer opening to a musical. :)
Barbara Walsh's voice is to DIE for in this song....
Sondheim's over 80 now and won't be around forever, so you should appreciate him. Some day he will be considered the Mozart or Bach of the present time.
Yup
The best Bobby!!
God...this is so incredible. This was my first Broadway show, and I had no idea it would be this awesome.
You remind me of when I was 9 years old in 1970 and my older brother came home from a school trip to see the strange new play that had recently opened in New York... He was very enthused by it, and when I heard the original cast album, I sensed (as far as a 9 year old can "get" such things) that this was something very different from cornball school productions of "Hello, Dolly" and such I was familiar with. This was no Boy-Meets-Girl Happy Ending fluff, but a seriously deep (and deeply funny) look at the realities of singlehood and marriage. Any younger person watching this as their first theatrical experience I would expect to be immediately impressed, as I was, with the more profound possibilities of the musical genre and theatre in general.
Right? I LIVE for 2:19 and 2:39
She makes "having people in Saturday night" sound like a once-in-a-lifetime event.
my professor played this in my class called the history of the american musical. this was my favorite song from it. that was 2013 i believe
I only knew him from the Law and Order. Damn he's good!!!!
She's the reason I listen to this song!!! Ugh, I love her.
this is why I love sondheim.
Love the "Company" song! And this musical!
Good lord Raul is fucking amazing
I've never seen this show, nor am I that familiar with it, but I love it already.
@EmiCru01 i totally agree about the instruments thing. i just watched this whole show last night... and kept thinking how i could turn it into a movie... and i kept thinking that the instruments would HAVE to stay!
at first i was weirded out by it, but it just worked so well.
this was a GREAT show though.
very honest... but very very very FUNNY and GREAT SONGS!!!!
i have a raging hard on for Sondheim now!
Thank you for the musical theatre posts.
Thank for all the great Company clips you are very kind to me, have a nice weekend...Paulxx
This bobby reminds me of J Pierrepont Finch from _How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying_ , the original played by young Robert Morse during the 60s.
i love this song sm
mainly cause of raul, but the beat/tempo for the revival vs the og is a lot better
gotta love Company :)
Ahhh thanks for posting this! It took me a while to find... couldn't figure out how to search for the song "Company" specifically rather than the musical _Company_ as a whole.
stupendo
check out Rauls Hallelujah....AMAZING
totally agree. he had me at Ab (or A#?)
It's Ab
you can buy it on Amazon
@mrjuly it's the very beginning of the show.
replay
My name is Bobby lololol
can anyone give me a reason to hate Sondheim's music? no? didn't think so...
genius
I can give you a lot about why I don't like this production, though.
tommytimp What in particular do you not like about this particular production?
@@summer2543- some people don’t like the how the gimmick of the actors playing every instrument. As it limits staging and the scope of the Orchestra. Also the show leans into a less comedic tone than other productions. I love it tho
@TedSmash hahah I have been in the exact same situation 3 times in the past month.
ok am i the only one who sees this as a movie
Late great Larry Kert made a great Bobby, too.
@tangotto817 I saw the director do the same thing with Sweeney Todd the year before. Instead of having an orchestra the cast plays the music. Worked out really chillingly in Sweeney Todd and I can see how it would bring more of a personal touch in Company. Not sure how many other musicals it would really work for though.
I don't think it works very well at all. Purely a cost-cutting measure. (Doyle admitted as much.) This number (and the whole score, especially most of "What Would We Do Without You") is lame as hell without the percussion.
I think any old crowbar would do.
I do! It could be really great! But it could also turn out to be crap if done wrong, as with any adaptation... :/
yeah but for some reason, the vibrato that would piss me off in any other actor just sounds like his character. I think it works, but only for him.
Not even the 2011 cast I love Neil but they werent as good they were great just not as great as this cast.
Sondheims best - but original cast cast be beat!
Sometimes it's good life isn't a musical. It would drive me up a wall if I had a million people singing my name at me all at once >_
Is that a question on whether or not it's an A flat or A sharp... it's flat if you wanted the clearification. If not then, nevermind! haha.
Love it. Love Esparza... but he can get a bit nasally sometimes.
I've seen it done with the Sweeney Todd revival...honestly, it doesn't work with Company as well as it did with Sweeney...
My favorite musical but the actors playing the orchestrations is so gimmicky. Not a fan.
I know I’m in the minority, but I don’t like the instruments. I think it’s too much of a gimmick
God I hate John Doyle revivals, he just sucks all the life of the originals, his Sweeney and Pacific Overtures should be considered a crime
Really? I can't stand this cast at all. Give me Dean Jones on the OBC album or Neil Patrick Harris with the New York Philharmonic cast all the way!
Are you kidding me?
Skyler Queen saying you prefer NPH over Raúl is like choosing three-year-old frozen pizza over a hot and fresh Chicago deep dish ok
Raul's voice is so rich, I listen to his Being Alive all of the time, so powerful and emotional! This was an amazing cast. I really wanted to see the gender bent revival but my 17 year old daughter overrode that with her list of shows. Sondheim writes real life misicals like no other!