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...STEPHEN SONDHEIM takes the audience on a long detour most of the way through his musical comedy Company. Up until the very last scene, the plot focuses on a surprises birthday party thrown for Robert by five couples his best friends. Between repeated sequences of the same party we watch brief flashback type includes between Robert and each of the five couples who are trying to convince him to get married. Robert responds by becoming his rate as a single man hypocritically, because he is currently dating three completely different, unusual women. And when the first act ends exact...
...Alan Sondheim Kingston...
...show fares equally well when you break the "fun" down into its component parts. Stephen Sondheim provides at least seven super songs with highly humble melodies and clever, memorable lyrics that had the audience singing to itself in the intermission. The cast energizes the stage with strong, coordinated, full-company numbers and includes several very good individual performances...
Sweeney Todd (The Entertainment Channel). Terry Hughes directed Stephen Sondheim's operatic musical for cable with seamless theater and TV technique. George Hearn was magnificent as Sweeney, the misanthropic cutthroat; Angela Lansbury was delectably deranged as his helpmeet...
LIKE PRINCE'S adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, Evita relies upon an operatic chorus and contains little dialogue, placing a great burden on the voices of its stars. Derin Altay, who replaced Patti LuPone on Broadway, sings vibrantly. Waving her arms, confidently striding across the stage, she demands the audience's attention. She also displays a not-too-subtle wit, fashioning gestures more reminiscent of a Billy Martin-Reggie Jackson ballpark feud than an exchange between a First Lady and a cabinet official. But of course much of Eva's mystique results from such apparent contradictions--the earthiness...