Comédie musicale
Company

COMPANY

Music and Songs by Stephen Sondheim
Book by George Furth
French translation of the book by Stéphane Laporte
Originally produced and directed in Broadway by Harold Prince
Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick

Musical Direction: Larry Blank
Stage Direction: James Bonas
Choreography: Ewan Jones
Assistant Musical Director: Charlotte Gauthier
Set Design: Barbara de Limburg
Costume Design: Nathalie Pallandre
Lighting Design: Christophe Chaupin
Video Design: Anouar Brissel
Sound Design: Unisson Design

Cast:
Bobby – Gaétan Borg
Joanne – Jasmine Roy
Larry – Scott Emerson
Amy – Jeanne Jerosme
Paul – Sinan Bertrand
Sarah – Marion Préïté
Harry – Arnaud Masclet
Susan – Camille Mesnard
Peter – Joseph De Cange
Jenny – Eva Gentili
David – Loïc Suberville
April – Camille Nicolas
Marta – Neïma Naouri
Kathy – Myriana Hatchi

Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice

Presented as part of the 24th Festival of Operetta and Musical Theatre of the City of Nice.

Presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International: www.mtishows.eu and the Drama Agency – Paris: www.dramaparis.com

New co-production by Génération Opéra

Opéra Grand Avignon / Opéra National de Bordeaux / Théâtre du Châtelet / Théâtre Impérial – Opéra de Compiègne / Opéra de Limoges / Clermont-Auvergne Opéra / Opéra de Massy / Opéra Nice Côte d’Azur / Opéra de Rennes / Opéra National de Lorraine / Opéra Orchestre Normandie Rouen / L’avant-scène opéra (Switzerland) / Orchestre national d’Île-de-France (Ondif)

With the support of the Ministry of Culture, the Orange Foundation, and the Signature Foundation.

Biographies

STEPHEN SONDHEIM – Composer

Stephen Sondheim (1930–2021) wrote the music and lyrics for Saturday Night (1954), A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (1962), Anyone Can Whistle (1964), Company (1970), Follies (1971), A Little Night Music (1973), The Frogs (1974), Pacific Overtures (1976), Sweeney Todd (1979), Merrily We Roll Along (1981), Sunday In The Park With George (1984), Into The Woods (1987), Assassins (1991), Passion (1994), Road Show (2008), and Here We Are (2023), as well as the lyrics for West Side Story (1957), Gypsy (1959), Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965), and additional lyrics for Candide (1973).
Anthologies of his work include Side by Side by Sondheim (1976), Marry Me a Little (1981), You're Gonna Love Tomorrow (1983), Putting It Together (1993/99), Moving On (2001), Sondheim on Sondheim (2010), and Old Friends (2023).
For film, he composed the score for Stavisky (1974), co-composed music for Reds (1981), wrote songs for Dick Tracy (1990), and for the television musical Evening Primrose (1966). He co-wrote the film The Last of Sheila (1973) and the play Getting Away With Murder (1996). He also provided incidental music for the plays The Girls of Summer (1956), Invitation to a March (1961), Twigs (1971), and The Enclave (1973).
He received Tony Awards for Best Score for Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, and Passion, all of which also received New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards, as did Pacific Overtures and Sunday in the Park with George, the latter also earning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1985).
Born and raised in New York City, Sondheim graduated from Williams College where he received the Hutchinson Prize for music composition. He studied theory and composition with Milton Babbitt. He served on the Council of the Dramatists Guild, the national association of playwrights, composers, and lyricists, and was its president from 1973 to 1981.
He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1983, and in 1990 was named the first Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Oxford University. He received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1993, the National Medal of Arts in 1996, the MacDowell Medal in 2013, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015.
His collected lyrics and essays were published in two volumes: Finishing the Hat (2010) and Look, I Made a Hat (2011).
In 2010, the Broadway theatre formerly known as the Henry Miller's Theatre was renamed in his honor. In 2019, he became the first living artist to have a theatre named after him on London’s Shaftesbury Avenue when the renovated Queen’s Theatre was renamed the Sondheim Theatre in celebration of his 90th birthday by Sir Cameron Mackintosh.

GEORGE FURTH – Librettist

George Furth was born in Chicago and graduated from Northwestern University. He pursued graduate studies at Columbia University. He had a prolific career as an actor, appearing in numerous feature films including The Best Man, Oh, God!, Doctor Detroit, Young Doctors in Love, The Man with Two Brains, Cannonball Run, Hooper, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Blazing Saddles, Shampoo, Sleeper, The New Interns, and Myra Breckinridge.
He also appeared in many major television series. In addition to Company, his Broadway credits include The Act, Twigs, The Supporting Cast, Merrily We Roll Along, Precious Sons, and Getting Away With Murder.

STÉPHANE LAPORTE – Translator

Since 2000, the year of his adaptation of the musical Titanic at the Opéra de Liège, Stéphane Laporte has alternated between writing and adapting plays, both musical and non-musical.
His adaptation of The Lion King has been playing for two seasons at Théâtre Mogador. Among the other Broadway musicals he has adapted are Hairspray, Fiddler on the Roof, Young Frankenstein, The Wizard of Oz, Some Like It Hot, Fame, and the libretto of Mamma Mia!.
His adaptations of plays include Wit (directed by Jeanne Moreau) and Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. His original librettos 31 and Exit (co-written with Gaétan Borg) earned him two awards for Best Musical Libretto.
His collaboration with the “Bruxellons!” Festival led to adaptations of classics like My Fair Lady and West Side Story.
At the Avignon Festival in 2023, he premiered Dolores and revived Colorature, an American play about the life of the famed Florence Foster Jenkins.
In September of the same year, Noises Off! (Panique en coulisses), his adaptation of the iconic comedy by Michael Frayn, opened at the Théâtre des Variétés.
In June 2012, Stéphane Laporte received the SACD’s first-ever Theater Adaptor Aware.