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SUMMARY:„Company” / Stephen Sondheim
DESCRIPTION:BUY TICKET\n \n  \nCAUTION! During the performance\, short-term strobe lights will be used twice.\nBasen Artystyczny Stage\nStephen Sondheim\nCompany\nLibretto | George Furth\nTranslation | Maciej Glaza \nEnglish subtitles \nDuration: 150 min. + 30 min. Entr’acte \nMusic director/conductor: Tomasz Szymuś\nStaging and director: Michał Znaniecki\nSet designer: Luigi Scoglio\nCostume designer: Ewa Minge\nChoreographer: Inga Pilchowska\nLighting director: Dawid Karolak\nMultimedia: Karolina Jacewicz \nCAST:\nROBERT/BOBBY: Rafał Supiński\nHARRY: Maciej Miecznikowski\nSARA: Marta Burdynowicz\nPAUL: Jakub Pawlik\nAMY: Anastazja Simińska\nJOANNE: Alicja Węgorzewska\nSUSAN: Anna Sroka-Hryń\nLARRY: Zbigniew Konopka\nPETER: Przemysław Glapiński\nDAVID: Wojciech Stolorz\nJENNY: Bogumiła Dziel-Wawrowska\nAPRIL: Aleksandra Borkiewicz\nKATHY: Paulina Janczak\nMARTHA: Iga Caban\nANGEL: Paulina Łysikowska-Dorocka \nVocal Ensemble of  the Warszawska Opera Kameralna\nChorus Master – Krzysztof Kusiel-Moroz \nBallet Company\nDominika Lewandowska\, Joanna Lichorowicz-Greś\, Paulina Wojtkowska\, Marta Żabka\, Zyta Bujacz-Dziel\, Ewelina Kruk\, Joanna Ziemczyk \nMusicians:\nMariusz Mielczarek – saxophone\, Paweł Gusnar – saxophone\, Konrad Gzik – saxophone\, Jakub Wydrzyński – saxophone\, Łukasz Dzikowski – oboe\, Kuba Waszczeniuk – trumpet\, Andrzej Rękas – trombone\, Sebastian Frankiewicz – percussion\, Jan Zeyland – keyboard\, Marcin Trojanowicz – keyboard\, Patryk Stachura – bass\, Bartosz Szetela – bass\, Joanna Pomykała – violin\, Jacek Wachnik – violin\, Maja Wachnik – viola\, Karol Wachnik – cello \n\nPHOTHOS FROM THE PREMIERE\n\n        \n            \n                                                \n\n                                        \n                        DSC02883DSC02066DSC02604DSC03452DSC04057DSC04179DSC03983CCR01182DSC03514DSC03898                    \n\n                                    \n            \n        \n         \n  \nPHOTHOS FROM THE 2’nd PREMIERE\n\n        \n            \n                                                \n\n                                        \n                        CCR01163CCR00825CCR00850CCR00918CCR01210CCR01318CCR00982                    \n\n                                    \n            \n        \n         \n\nCompany – a musical\, that wonderfully stands the test of time\n“Company” is an iconic American musical\, based on a libretto by George Furth\, which\, compared to the entire enormous oeuvre of Stephen Sondheim\, is so special that both the music and the text are written by the author of the work. Moreover\, it is a musical considered to be one of the first socially engaged\, it hasn’t lost any relevance for half a century since its premiere in 1970. It is worth knowing that back then\, the show received 14 nominations for the most important Broadway Tony Award\, ultimately winning 6 statuettes. Jonathan Mandell\, one of the most influential critics of Broadway\, considered “Company” a work filled with the best lyrics\, and when reviewing the December revival in New York (2021\, Ethel Barrymore Theatre\, fourth New York revival in musical history)\, he was tempted to say: It contains more than a dozen songs with among the cleverest lyrics in the history of musical theatre. The score is exquisite. \nThe “Company’s” story revolves around Robert\, a handsome and popular single man\, five married couples who are his best friends\, and three of his girlfriends. While the classic musical is built on the basis of a homogenous plot\, and we witness a linear development of the action\, in here we get independent threads closely related to the individual marriages or main character’s partners\, and all of them are linked to the celebration of Robert’s next birthday. As Sondheim put it: They are middle-class people with middle-class problems. \nCharles Isherwood of “Broadway News” goes further in his interpretation: \nBroadly speaking\, Company is a musical meditation on emotional ambivalence\, the sense that “the road you didn’t take\,” to quote a Sondheim lyric from another show\, might have been preferable to the one you are on. Virtually all of the married characters raise questions about decisions they made — specifically the choice to commit their lives to their spouses — and for most of them\, the answers to those questions will always remain elusive or ambiguous. \nWhenever a musical returns to theatre’s repertoire\, whether in the United States or in London’s West End\, it is astonishing with its topicality and the everlasting nature of human dilemmas. What was formally shocking in 1970\, since the musical defied the convention by being a series of seemingly independent one-act plays sewn together\, is today its trademark. The main character weighs the advantages and disadvantages of his inner circle’s relationships\, gradually coming to the conclusion that there are more reasons to open up to love and commitment than to remain alone. So does optimism ultimately win? With this question\, the viewer remains alone. \n*** \nThe performance is perfectly produced – musically\, danceable and dramatically. Broadway in Warsaw. \ne-teatr\, Bronisław Tumiłowicz  \nMusically\, Bobby’s vocal parts and group scenes are extremely distinguishing. The ensemble playing live music is doing great. \nTeraz Teatr\,  Marta Gaik
URL:https://operakameralna.pl/en/event/company-stephen-sondheim-26/
LOCATION:Basen Artystyczny Stage\, M. Konopnicka 6\, Warsaw
CATEGORIES:Repertoire,Spectacle
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