Company London

[LesWickedly]

The production has extended through March 30th, so no transfer this season.

[kade.ivy]

I see where this production is now selling tickets through March 30, 2019! Guess we can hold off on that Bway transfer this season! Happy opening to the cast and crew!

[kade.ivy]

Ah, didn’t see your post, Les. Apologies.

[ljay889]

The reviews are raves so far. LuPone is getting notices that could match some of the best she’s received in her career.

[adamgreer]

Shame it's not transferring this season. With reviews like this, LuPone would win her third Tony in a landslide. 

[BroadwayConcierge]

The Guardian gives it 4 out of 5 stars, calling it a "heavenly fling." 

Time Out gives it 5 out of 5 stars, saying it's a "tour de force reworking." 

Variety is very positive, giving LuPone a special rave: "LuPone plays Joanne with a bitumen-black resolve, every bit as embittered as she is empowered. Cloaked in a fur coat and glinting like a one-woman diamond mine, she’s dazzling and awful at the same time — a martini mixed from measures of exuberance and scorn. She’s joyfully joyless."

[Call_me_jorge]

adamgreer said: "Shame it's not transferring this season. With reviews like this, LuPone would win her third Tony in a landslide."

Oh come on now. Kong is acting CIRCLES around Patti. They would still win even up against her.

[BroadwayConcierge]

The Evening Standard gives it 5 out of 5 stars. "Wonderfully fresh;" "glorious;" "pops with vitality and dazzles with its wit...a take on Company that savours Sondheim’s subtleties."

LondonTheatre.co.uk gives it 5 out of 5 stars. "Stunning;" "a departure into new territory and a stunning reaffirmation of [the show]'s brilliance." 

The Stage gives it 5 out of 5 stars. Calls it "astonishing."

[Sondheimite]

Seeing as there is only one musical revival coming in this year (and it's a tired re-telling of Kiss Me Kate), it's a shame that they're not fighting for Company to transfer this season.  

[tkts]

LesWickedly said: "The production has extended through March 30th, so no transfer this season."

 

Good news!  For us at least as we're in London in March. 

 

[adamgreer]

Sondheimite said: "Seeing as there is only one musical revival coming in this year (and it's a tired re-telling of Kiss Me Kate), it's a shame that they're not fighting for Company to transfer this season."

I was thinking the same thing! 

I wonder if they’d transfer the show with Craig and Lupone and replace them in London for the extension? 

[GreeneStreet]

If my sources are correct, they are still trying to land this on broadway this spring. The production is coming over but not the cast. Almost all roles would be recasted.

So basically theres still hope?

I also dont understand, im sure Kiss me Kate will be great but you have an 10000% chance of getting a tony if any other revival opens.

Dreamgirls, Secret garden, Company

This is the season to come in.

[BroadwayConcierge]

I want this production here ASAP, but I only want it with LuPone. I’d be okay waiting a season if it means we can get LuPone with it.

[Sondheimite]

i heard the name of an oscar winner being floated for staring in the broadway transfer.... 

[GreeneStreet]

Thats exactly what I heard as well.

[billyelliotfan123]

Emma Stone?

[JON111699]

Sondheimite said: "i heard the name of an oscar winner being floated for staring in the broadway transfer...."

Anne Hathaway? Emma Stone?

[SomethingPeculiar]

Sondheimite said: "i heard the name of an oscar winner being floated for staring in the broadway transfer...."

That rumor was on here a few weeks ago, too, and at that point she hadn't signed a contract. There are only a few Oscar winning actresses in the 30-40 range:  Anne Hathaway, Natalie Portman, Jennifer Hudson, or Lupita Nyong'o (with Hathaway being the obvious choice).

These are money reviews out of London for the production, Rosalie Craig, and Patti LuPone. The the kind of reviews that are strong enough to move most shows as-is, cast intact. (Unless Brantley hates it.) The reviews are a double-edged sword: they could scare away an actress like Hathaway and her CAA agents, or they could be a boost of confidence for her to star in an already-great production.

As long as LuPone moves with it, I'd be thrilled to see Craig or rumored-Oscar-winner.

[Sondheimite]

More specifically,

i hear an oscar winner will be making their Broadway debut. 

[Call_me_jorge]

Jennifer Lawrence? Brie Larson?

[A Director]

Leave Patti in London. Transfer the production here. Replace her with Glenn Close.

[SomethingPeculiar]

I think women like Emma Stone (29), Brie Larson (29), and Jennifer Lawrence (28) all read way too young. The stakes aren't high enough if it's a beautiful woman who looks like she's in her late 20s, especially in 2018 when so many people get married and have kids later.

While we're dreamcasting: Amy Adams would be wonderful. (Though she's 44 and not an Oscar winner)

[Shh_413]

Sondheimite said: "More specifically,

i hear an oscar winner will be making their Broadway debut."

That leaves Jennifer Lawrence, Brie Larson, Natalie Portman, Kate Winslet, and Anne Hathaway (I don't think she's ever done Broadway, has she?). The most likely being Anne since she doesn't have anything lined up in the near future and she's the most likely to star in a musical.

[Call_me_jorge]

^but she deserved one for Arrival 

[petey_p]

You kind of hit the nail on the head by saying that "every line reading" of Patti's was spot on. That's what her performances tend to be: a collection of line readings. And they get more arbitrarily eccentric with each passing year.

Maybe- maaaaaaybe- playwrights like Noël Coward and Oscar Wilder can live by smart and clever line readings, but George Furth ain't Wilde or Coward and his linseed to sound as real and natural as possible.