";s:4:"text";s:27868:"Just a delightful time, you know? (Ahron R. Foster) And now here we are playing husband and wife. Thoughts had started crossing my mind, as well as the minds of my colleagues, as to what will we do without theater? It was only later that there was the despair of, God, this could go on and on forever. Katrina Lenk (Bobbie, originally Robert) When Company was happening in London, I remember being obsessed with it. We want to hear from you! 15 notes. I was obsessed with how the characters talk and behave in the city, how cool it all seemed. In my brain I was trying to figure out maybe there was some way I … It was quite a whirlwind. Without our livelihood? So I closed in Hamilton on January 5 and started rehearsals for Company in New York on January 6. Katrina Lenk It seemed like, oh, it will be nice to have a couple days off because we’re all exhausted and to have a couple days to sleep seemed, well, not so bad. Matt Doyle (Jamie, originally Amy) Marianne Elliott called me in to read for the character of Paul, Jamie’s wonderful, loving and doting husband. (The producer would not confirm the specific dollar figures). We imagined New York City without theater. After I did it I went into some kind of mental spiral for a couple of days, down a rabbit hole. Christopher Fitzgerald There’s this feeling when you work in the theater, especially on Broadway, that the show must go on. My partner, Max Clayton, was opening in Moulin Rouge! Until then, the $13 million production will have to sustain itself on what Broadway Journal editor Philip Boroff has reported is an $8.8 million business interruption insurance payout from Chubb, an amount roughly equivalent to nine weeks of 80% potential ticket sales at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre. You get in that mode where it’s very hard to advocate for what you need, and for what makes sense, because really what’s driving you even more is the need to tell the story. Most of that ensemble cast is Hong Kong, Chinese locals. at the Booth who had it. Maybe a month before everything started happening here, this designer mentioned to Jessica on the phone, like, “Hey, there’s this thing that is happening in China, and it’s kind of freaking me out.” So we just started to watch what was going on more carefully than I felt like a lot of my colleagues were. In fact, the show was doing very well – the revival and its biggest star Patti LuPone had been a hit in London, Broadway performances with LuPone and an otherwise new American cast were falling into place, advance ticket sales were strong, audiences were delighted, and the spring Tony Award season had its most anticipated pairing in LuPone and The Band’s Visit‘s Katrina Lenk, one a true icon of the theater, the other one of two or three more recently arrived stars with the talent, the pull and the guts to stand beside her. For at least a couple of the musical’s preview performances leading up to the city’s historic closing of March 12, 2020, the stage jitters had little to do with the usual pre-opening night nerves. But I was talking to a group of my really good girlfriends – four of us who are working actresses, and I call us the Blacktresses. High quality Company Katrina Lenk accessories by independent designers from around the world. The L. A. US Jenny, Susan, Sarah in Company on Broadway, starring Patti Lupone and Katrina Lenk Greater New York City Area 174 others named Kathryn Allison are on LinkedIn We were feeling really close, a couple shows away from freezing it, meaning that you’re no longer making changes. In my brain I was trying to figure out maybe there was some way I could just go and see it. When the theater is calling you, real life is a weird thing you push off to the side. Performances are scheduled to begin on March 2, 2020. I’d worked with Marianne on War Horse and we were very, very close during that process, so I knew that if she thought I was right for Jamie she would have called me in for Jamie. Tony Award® and Grammy Award® winner Katrina Lenk and two-time Tony Award and two-time Grammy Award winner Patti LuPone join forces in Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s groundbreaking musical comedy. As Bobbie searches for answers, she discovers why being single, being married, and being alive in 21st-Century New York could drive a person crazy. The world without theater, without art in general. When I heard that they were going to be doing a production on Broadway with an all-American cast, I was super thrilled. In this first installment in a multi-part series, LuPone, Lenk, Thornton, Matt Doyle, Christopher Fitzgerald, Christopher Sieber, Jennifer Simard, Terence Archie, Etai Benson, Nikki Renée Daniels, Claybourne Elder, Greg Hildreth, Kyle Dean Massey and Rashidra Scott describe the walk-up to Company‘s first Broadway preview at the Shubert Organization’s Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on March 2, 2020. Bobby Conte Thornton Like any preview process, it’s just about getting to feel like you have a sense of ownership over the material, slowly but surely, especially as you add the necessary collaborator – the audience. I was like, yeah, we have a show tonight. Because I keep reading this part and all I keep hearing is you doing this role.” The audition was Monday and I believe it was either Saturday night or Sunday that I said to her, “I’m not going because it doesn’t make sense. (L-R) Rashidra Scott as Susan, Katrina Lenk as Bobbie, and Greg Hildreth as Peter, Terence Archie, Patti LuPone, Katrina Lenk, 'Company', (L-R) Etai Benson as Paul and Matt Doyle as Jamie, (L-R) Christopher Sieber as Harry, Jennifer Simard as Sarah, Katrina Lenk as Bobbie, and Patti LuPone as Joanne, (L-R) Katrina Lenk as Bobbie, Christopher Fitzgerald as David, and Nikki Renée Daniels as Jenny. That’s not a criticism, it was just that my wife happened to have this very, very clear connection to what was going on. There was no kind of epiphany for me, because Broadway doesn’t just shut down. Terence Archie (Larry) I went through a couple of auditions, and got a good feel for it and felt good about it. In recent months, Deadline has conducted a series of interviews with all 14 principal cast members of Company, each performer sharing insights, hopes and fears, and a year’s experiences – personally, professionally, economically, emotionally – as they find their way through an unprecedented crisis in their industry and their city. When I did Company in college, before I lived in the city, it seemed like this fantasy of New York. Will I have the energy, especially, to go back on stage? All Rights reserved. The line was down the block to get a ticket. 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In recent years, Katrina Lenk has gained the attention of Broadway audiences — and a Tony Award. “I’m hopeful that in the next couple of months the governor will give us the green light that Fall is possible,” says Company producer Chris Harper, “that around April or May we’ll have clarity as to when Broadway will be able to reopen with full capacity. Just on a personal level, how would we make a living? You are going in for this and one of us is going to book it.” Five-and-a-half weeks later, my girlfriends were the first people I called when I hung up from my agent. Patti LuPone and Katrina Lenk to star in gender-flipped Company on Broadway By Jessica Derschowitz August 30, 2019 at 10:16 AM EDT We had been given the generosity of the George Furth Estate to have access to every previous incarnation of Company, including the vignettes that were written pre-1970 that the musical is essentially based off of. At Bobbie’s (Lenk) 35th birthday party, all her friends are wondering why isn’t she married? They spend it on the theater, on entertainment. The Stephen Sondheim musical … She asked me to learn “Getting Married Today,” and gave me 24 hours. A re-gendered revival of the 1970 musical “Company,” which had a well-received production in London that opened last year, will arrive on Broadway next … But even before our first preview we kind of got an inkling of something coming. It was hard for me to give my notice at Mean Girls, but I was so delighted to get involved with Company. Send us a tip using our annonymous form. (L-R) Katrina Lenk as Bobbie and Matt Doyle as Jamie. Watch Katrina Lenk, Patti LuPone, and the Cast of Company Perform the Title Song Virtually By Dan Meyer | 06/13/2020 The Broadway stars collided in a … Claybourne Elder I don’t remember that last performance at all because it was just another preview. I have this very intimate scene with Katrina Lenk where I’m very, very close to her face and I just remember thinking oh, gosh, enunciate but don’t let any spit fly out of your mouth. In these times when we’re all forced to be with our significant others 24 hours a day, and we’re bouncing off the walls, that song really speaks to me. Patti LuPone I said goodbye to the Jacobs, and then I thought, No, goodbye to the Royale, because the Royale had been a much more elegant theater name than the Jacobs. “We do not turn down principal auditions. Then one day it was like something had turned, and it suddenly became really scary. We did about six weeks of rehearsals, which is very rare, especially for a show that had already had a production elsewhere. Claybourne Elder (Andy, originally April) Most of my professional career has been doing Stephen Sondheim shows somewhere on Broadway or otherwise. We all thought, okay, this is something that’ll pass. company (2018 west end w/ rosalie craig and patti lupone) chess (w/ raul esparza) bandstand (pro-shot w/ corey cott and laura osnes) ... bootlegs #Broadway #bootleg #company bootleg #company broadway #broadway boots #broadway boot #broadway bootleg #patti lupone #katrina lenk. Even if we were putting new words and new elements into the show, they were still George Furth’s words, and of course everything that was changed was cleared by Stephen Sondheim. When Nick Cordero got sick we were making him videos and sending them to his wife and thinking there’s just no way we’re going to lose him. Katrina Lenk and Tony Shalhoub in Atlantic Theater Company’s “The Band’s Visit,” directed by David Cromer. Kyle Dean Massey I thought it was being sensationalized, quite honestly. America without theater. Company Summary Tony Award® and Grammy Award® winner Katrina Lenk and two-time Tony Award and two-time Grammy Award winner Patti LuPone join forces in Company, Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s groundbreaking musical comedy. And I remember Chris Sieber saying yeah, what am I supposed to do without seeing you guys every day? Broadway shut its doors and turned out its lights on March 12, 2020, an instant metaphor for Covid-19’s catastrophic impact on business, the arts and New York City itself. You’re going to book it so what’s the point of going in for something that clearly has your name written on it. Performances of COMPANY are currently suspended through May 30, 2021. Photograph: Courtesy Guerin Blask. It was the parents in the show like Nikki Rene, who’s my dressing-room mate, and Chris Fitz and some people on the crew who started talking about being afraid to send their kids to school. It’s Bobbie’s 35th birthday party, and all her friends keep asking, Why isn’t she married? Why can’t she find the right man and isn’t it time to settle down and start a family? Jennifer Simard (Sarah) My first audition was in August of 2019, and I was very happily employed at Mean Girls on Broadway. He had written a film treatment, he had written a number of plays, all of which we had access to. Subscribe to Deadline Breaking News Alerts and keep your inbox happy. Lenk appeared in Hedwig and the Angry Inch at the Broadway Theatre, Chicago, in May 2001 as Yitzak. And he says no, don’t come in. Nikki Renée Daniels There’s a party game section of the number “Side by Side,” where Katrina and two other people have to pass an orange to each other using their mouths, and we’re all kind of like cringing, like, should we really be adding this into the show right now? Do I say to my director and producer that I’ve got to quit? Bobby Conte Thornton (PJ, originally Marta) I remember when I was a teenager I watched the John Doyle production of Company on Great Performances on PBS, and that was the first Sondheim show I’d ever seen. Shop online for tote bags, backpacks, water bottles, scarves, pins, masks, duffle bags, and more. We’d kindled our sisterhood friendship at the final callback for Head Over Heels on Broadway, which none of us got but we at least got this great sisterhood out of it. Katrina Lenk is doing so quite literally, ... Company starts previews at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on March 2 and opens on March 22. Matt Doyle The reality of how severe the illness could be was still something that needed to sink in…and that didn’t really happen until a friend of ours was dying. ‘Company’ confirms Broadway return, starring Katrina Lenk and Patti LuPone March 23, 2021 With the news that New York theatres can begin to open their doors for socially distanced productions, Company is the first Broadway musical to confirm its opening. Claybourne Elder The big first challenge I faced was knowing that my character was supposed to be in really good physical shape and I was going to be in my underwear on Broadway. When I heard of this production and heard that it was coming over I was like, oh, it is far too much to dream that I will get to do that show because I want it way too badly and usually the ones you want so badly are the ones you never get. The production will star Tony and Grammy Award winner Katrina Lenk as Bobbie, while two-time Tony Award and two-time Grammy Award winner Patti LuPone will reprise her unforgettable, Olivier Award-winning turn as Joanne. We have something in our guts which blinds us to any pain we endure just trying to be actors and being part of this business and this process where the odds are against us. So I called our production stage manager, Tim Semon, and I said Tim, should I even come in today? I figured that they were probably looking for a person of color for that role. Marianne was imploring us to bring our individual selves and sensibilities and eccentricities to the material to make it feel alive and fresh and real. That I don’t want to come in tonight? Katrina Lenk (Bobbie). It very much put me on a path towards wanting to devote my life to making a living playing pretend. I think it made me want to be better and more succinct at what I do, and maybe even apply some sense of holiness to the task at hand of the theater artist. Now On Sale. I was asked if I wanted to audition for this Company revival that they’d been doing in London where Bobby is played by a woman. They said we couldn’t even sign Playbills. My dressing room mate, Greg Hildreth and I were more like let’s wait and see. Plus I was in the middle of leaving one show in the middle of the holidays, going to another show, and I was not really paying attention. None of us knew to take it as seriously as we ended up taking it. It began to seem so essential. And then I burst into tears and said goodbye to my life in the theater…, Greg Hildreth Every time the Broadway League announces an extension of the shutdown, it feels like you’ve just proposed marriage to somebody and she says “I’ll marry you. In the year since, Broadway has been a bellwether in the city’s ongoing hibernation, as one shutdown extension followed another until even Summer 2021 began to seem like a pipedream. Jennifer Simard I’m not really a pessimist nor an optimist. Greg Hildreth (Peter) I had the Company vinyl cast recording in middle school and high school, and wore it out. But Christopher was digging deep into the news and he would come to us and say, guys, I think this is going to shut us down, I really think so. Website Nikki Renée Daniels (Jenny) I was in Hamilton in Chicago for most of 2019, so I was flying back and forth from New York to Chicago. COMPANY features Stephen Sondheim’s award-winning songs You Could Drive a Person Crazy, The Ladies Who Lunch, Side by Side by Side and the iconic Being Alive. I went in not really thinking I was going to get it, but I’ve been a fan of Sondheim and this entire team for a very long time, and I thought, well, how can I not try? Virtual doors chimed, and onto our screens came Company stars Katrina Lenk, Patti LuPone, and the rest of the 2020 Broadway revival cast in a … There was no autograph line. My first job ever was in a Stephen Sondheim, his last new musical, at The Public Theater called Road Show. In fact I joked – and this has sort of haunted me – but on the way out of the theater I said, “Alright everybody, see you in two weeks because we’re going to get shut down.” It seemed so ridiculous that I didn’t mind joking about it out loud. We’re the United States of America and this stuff doesn’t really happen here. So I called my husband and I said I’m ordering a pizza and I’m picking up a cake and we’re going to go home and I’m going to eat whatever I want. Everyone knows the rest. Company, a Stephen Sondheim musical comedy, stars Katrina Lenk and Patti Lupone. Just not yet.”. I was the one at work that was starting to be like, hey guys, have you heard about this? All interviews, conducted separately, have been edited and condensed for length and clarity. Weekly wrote: "As Linda, Katrina Lenk is sensational — she has a dozen nuanced smiles that range from innocent and shattered to grateful, in order to express whatever passes as kindness when, say, a male co-star (Josh Greene) promises to make their scene fun." Like all things in life, when it rains it pours, and all good things seem to happen at once. When the NBA canceled its season, my heart sank, and my survival instincts clicked in. The husband and I started buying some rice and some quinoa just in case. Tony winners Katrina Lenk and Patti LuPone will headline the production as Bobbie and Joanne, respectively. “It’s been very tricky, a really difficult process to survive.”, “The reason why I feel so confident about bringing the show back is because we had a fantastic advance when we closed,” Harper continued, expressing conviction that the entire Broadway cast will return. 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