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Title: Abominable production of a brilliant show
Review: John Doyle's gimmicky production of this Sondheim/Furth masterpiece is nothing short of an abomination. His conceit of having the cast play their own instruments (there is no orchestra) is cheesy and distracting. Instead of honest acting and straightforward storytelling, Doyle gives us pseudo-symbolism, actors talking into the air instead of to each other and staging that is so obtuse that anyone not already intimately familiar with COMPANY will be utterly baffled. Doyle's COMPANY is not the brilliant musical play the authors wrote; it is more like an acting class exercise. The poor cast (most of them very talented) ought to have mutinied; they probably could have directed themselves far better than this charlatan. Save your money and buy the original 1970 Broadway cast CD instead. And let us hope that one day there will be a commercial video release of a REAL production of COMPANY.
