Company

"As a composer and lyricist – and a genre unto himself – Sondheim challenges his audience.

His greatest successes are not simple tunes you hum, they are meditations on the roads not taken, on thwarted wishes, on relationships so worn and dislocated that there is no other choice but to bring in the clowns.

And yet, Stephen's music is so beautiful, his words so exact, that at the very moment he reveals the imperfections of everyday life, he transcends them. And we transcend them.

" Barack Obama On 4 April 1994, in the pages of New York Magazine, James Kaplan published an article about Stephen Sondheim.

" – this article characterizes, even today, the importance of the American author and composer in the history of musical comedy: inventor of a new form of theatrical dialogue, he not only offered new perspectives to musical comedy, but also, simply, reinvented it.

After training alongside Oscar Hammerstein II, he becomes, in 1957, the lyricist for Leonard Bernstein for West Side Story. Just under fifteen years later, on 26 April 1970, Stephen Sondheim creates Company at the Alvin Theatre: it is his first masterpiece on Broadway.

Rewarded with six Tony Awards, the author and composer immediately established himself on the New York and world stage. Associated with librettist George Furth and director Harold Prince, Stephen Sondheim produced the very first "concept musical".

Without big dance numbers, without linear story, Company is a succession of skits that question entry into adulthood, based on a fragmented narrative. The song catalyzes emotion and provokes reff