Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorThe show must go on.That’s what Broadway’s latest production of Stephen Sondheim’s “Company” did Friday night at the Bernard B.
Jacobs Theater, but not before director Marianne Elliott paid tribute to the late composer, who passed away just hours before at the age of 91. “He was truly the greatest artist that we in our lifetime possibly will ever know in this art form,” she said to applause, before the curtain was raised to show the cast standing together on stage. “Obviously, everybody is very shocked because everybody on this production knew him very well.”Elliott called musicals “the hardest of all theater because it involves even more people… The structure of it is so important.
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