Original Cast Album: Co-op is available on Amazon Prime, Netflix and IFC.com. The 2011 concert production is available on DVD. The 2006 Broadway revival production is available on DVD.

And, of course, IFC’s Documentary Now! famously spoofed the documentary of the cast recording in Original Cast Album: Co-Op with John Mulaney as a Sondheim substitute. There’s also a New York Philharmonic concert staging available that features an all-star cast, including Neil Patrick Harris, Patti LuPone, Stephen Colbert, Jon Cryer, and more. The original production was never filmed for home release-though there is a fascinating documentary ( Original Cast Album: Company) that captures the original cast album’s recording session-but a 2006 Broadway revival directed by John Doyle and starring Raúl Esparza was filmed for broadcast on PBS. The show gave us such songs as “The Ladies Who Lunch,” “Sorry Grateful,” “You Could Drive a Person Crazy,” and “Being Alive,” and ushered in a new era of daring musical theatre on Broadway.

Instead of offering a linear plot, Company explored the concept of marriage through a series of scenes between Bobby, a 35-year-old bachelor, and a variety of his married friends. At the time of the filming, the cast was not exceptionally well known, but looking back now, it’s pretty much an all-star cast, including performances by Renée Elise Goldsberry, Adam Kantor, Will Chase, Michael McElroy, Rodney Hicks, Tracie Thoms, Eden Espinoza, and Telly Leung.Īvailable on Amazon Prime, Google Play, Vudu, and YouTube, iTunes, as well as on DVD/Blu-ray from Amazon.Ĭompany Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Company broke all the rules when it opened on Broadway in 1970. Though it was adapted into a motion picture in 2005 featuring much of the original Broadway cast, the final performance of the Broadway production was captured and shown in movie theatres as well, later released on DVD and Blu-ray. It enjoyed a run of 12 years and over 5,000 performances. The production won four 1996 Tony Awards including Best Musical, along with the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

It was the first major Broadway show to offer rush tickets, and fans would camp out overnight to get inexpensive front row tickets. As most theatre fans know, it made a splash on Broadway, and the level of devotion its biggest fans carried had never really been seen before. Rent Jonathan Larson’s Rent updates the story of Puccini’s La Boheme, setting it in New York City's East Village.

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