Great Performances: Keeping Company with Sondheim

Get an inside look at the reimagining of Sondheim and Furth’s musical, “Company”

• Christina Zeiders
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  Christina Zeiders is the Communications Specialist at WITF. She helps get the word out about all of WITF's programs, events and community conversations.

Great Performances: Keeping Company with Sondheim was filmed over the course of two years and charts the path of Tony-winning director Marianne Elliot’s creative process in bringing a gender-swapped production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s musical Company to Broadway during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The film features rehearsal and performance footage, and new interviews with Elliott, Sondheim, Katrina Lenk, Patti LuPone, and members of the original 1970 cast. It tells the story of the original show’s Broadway debut in a city on the verge of bankruptcy to its reimagination 50 years later as Broadway and New York City emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keeping Company with Sondheim wraps up the spring lineup presented by Great Performances. The spring series included the West End revival of Cole Porter’s classic musical Anything Goes, which featured Tony Award winners Sutton Foster and Robert Lindsay, followed by Merry Wives, recorded live from The Delacorte Theater and marked the return of The Public Theater’s beloved Free Shakespeare in the Park following the COVID-19 shutdown.

Anything Goes is available to stream through the PBS Video app for free through June 10. Merry Wives, which airs on May 20 at 9pm, will stream free through June 17.

Watch Great Performances: Keeping Company with Sondheim Friday, May 27 at 9pm on WITF TV, or stream it through the PBS Video app and video.witf.org. All performances are available to stream for free for 4 weeks after their premiere.

WITF Passport members have extended access to stream on-demand. Learn more about unlocking an extended catalog of quality arts and culture programs like Great Performances at witf.org/passport.