NOTICE! Strobe lighting will be used intermittently during the performance.
Basen Artystyczny Stage
Stephen Sondheim
Company
Creative Team
Music Director | Tomasz Szymuś
Stage Direction | Michał Znaniecki
Set Design | Luigi Scoglio
Costume Design | Ewa Minge
Choreography | Inga Pilchowska
Kostiumy | Sabina Czupryńska
Lighting Design | Dawid Karolak
Multimedia | Karolina Jacewicz
Director’s Assistant | Rafał Supiński
Cast
Robert/Bobby | Janusz Kruciński
Harry | Maciej Miecznikowski
Sara | Marta Burdynowicz
Paul | Andrzej Skorupa
Amy | Anastazja Simińska
Joanne | Alicja Węgorzewska/Ewelina Rzezińska
Susan | Anna Sroka-Hryń
Larry | Zbigniew Konopka
Peter | Przemysław Glapiński/Łukasz Górczyński
David | | Wojciech Stolorz
Jenny | Bogumiła Dziel-Wawrowska
April | Magdalena Pikuła
Kathy | Paulina Janczak/Aleksandra Biskot
Martha | Iga Caban-Pawnuk
Anioł | Paulina Łysikowska- Dorocka
Ballet Ensemble
Joanna Kierzkowska, Ewelina Kruk / Zyta Bujacz-Dziel, Dominika Lewandowska, Joanna Lichorowicz-Greś, Paulina Wojtkowska, Marta Żabka
The Choir of the Warsaw Chamber Opera
Chorus Master | Krzysztof Kusiel-Moroz
Instrumental Ensemble
Saxophones | Mariusz Mielczarek
Saxophones | Paweł Gusnar
Saxophones | Konrad Gzik
Saxophones | Jakub Wydrzyński
Oboe | Łukasz Dzikowski
Trumpet | Kuba Waszczeniuk
Trombone | Andrzej Rękas
Percussion | Sebastian Frankiewicz
Keyboards | Jan Zeyland
Keyboards | Marcin Trojanowicz
Bass | Patryk Stachura
Violins | Zuzanna Remiorz
Violins | Jacek Wachnik
Viola | MajaWachnik
Cello | Karol Wachnik
Conductor | Tomasz Szymuś
Duration | 180 min. ( break 30 min.)
PHOTOS FROM THE PREMIERE
PHOTOS FROM THE SECOND PREMIERE
Company – A Musical That Stands the Test of Time
Company, one of Broadway’s all-time greatest hits, is a landmark American musical featuring both music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, with a book by George Furth. Unique in Sondheim’s vast body of work, it is often cited as one of the first socially conscious musicals. More than 50 years after its 1970 premiere, its themes remain powerfully relevant. The show earned 14 Tony Award nominations and won 6, including Best Musical.
Broadway critic Jonathan Mandell has called Company “a work packed with masterful lyrics,” and in his review of the 2021 New York revival at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, he wrote: “These are some of the smartest songs in musical theatre history.”
The plot centers on Robert, a charming bachelor navigating his relationships with five married couples—his closest friends—and three girlfriends. Rather than following a traditional linear narrative, the story unfolds through a series of vignettes connected by Robert’s birthday celebrations. As Sondheim described it: “These are middle-class people with middle-class problems.”
Charles Isherwood of Broadway News offers a deeper interpretation:
Company is a musical meditation on emotional ambivalence, on the feeling that “the road not taken”—to quote Sondheim himself—might have led to greater happiness. Each married character questions the choices they’ve made, especially the decision to commit their lives to another, and most find that the answers remain elusive or ambiguous.
Each time the show returns to the stage—whether on Broadway or London’s West End—it astonishes audiences with the timelessness of its themes and emotional depth. What once shocked audiences in 1970 with its unconventional form—disconnected scenes resembling one-act plays—is now its hallmark. In the end, Robert begins to understand that there are more reasons to embrace love and commitment than to avoid them.
But does optimism ultimately win?
That’s the question the audience must answer for themselves.
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The production is executed to perfection—musically, choreographically, and dramatically. Broadway in Warsaw.
e-teatr, Bronisław Tumiłowicz
The vocal lines for Bobby and the ensemble scenes are musically outstanding. The live band is exceptional.
Teraz Teatr, Marta Gaik
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