About

Stephen Sondheim’s ground-breaking musical comedy, is a mature, intelligent, and deliberately ambiguous look at relationships, identity and vulnerability.

Set amid the gleaming chrome towers and skyscrapers of Manhattan, we follow bachelor Bobby contemplating his present and future life as he celebrates his 35th birthday. Over the course of a series of dinners, drinks and even a wedding, his friends explain the pros and cons of taking on a spouse. The habitually single Bobby is forced to question his adamant retention of bachelorhood during a hilarious array of interactions.

As he blows out the candles on his birthday cake, his friends make a wish for him: he ought to be happily married - just like them. But in the incessant buzz of his New York lifestyle, Bobby has found his own happiness - good times with friends, no strings, just ‘Company’.

The show features arguably Sondheim’s most accessible and diverse score containing many of his best known songs, including ‘Another Hundred People’, ‘You Could Drive a Person Crazy’, ‘The Ladies Who Lunch’ and ‘Being Alive’. The original Broadway production in 1970 was nominated for a record-setting 14 Tony Awards, winning six including Best Musical, Best Score, Best Lyrics and Best Book. It has also won 7 Olivier Awards in London.

Today, many say it is their favourite show and, more than fifty years on from its ground-breaking debut, Company remains fresh, acerbic and original.