West End Review: ‘company’

Gordon Cox, Variety
Wed, 10/17/2018 - 3:30pm

Here comes “Company,” remade for today. With Stephen Sondheim’s blessing, director Marianne Elliott has given the marital musical an incisive gender-flip. Bobby has become Bobbie; bachelor become bachelorette. It brings a 50-year-old show — and its sexual politics — bang up to date. Sondheim has described “Company” as “a product of its time.” Written in […]

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