Company

29 Jan - 5 Feb

by Stephen Sondheim

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Company

29 Jan - 5 Feb

Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by George Furth
Originally Produced and Directed on Broadway by Harold Prince
Original Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick

Director Carol Harvey
Assistant Director Nick Bond
Musical Director Catherine Jayes
Choreographer Shelby Williams
Set & Costume Designer Anna Toumanova
Lighting Designer Alex Musgrave
Sound Designer Yvonne Gilbert

“Phone rings, door chimes – in comes company!”

It is Bobby’s birthday and his coupled-up friends have arranged a surprise party. As they wait for him to blow out the candles, questions are raised. Why isn’t Bobby married yet? Why doesn’t Bobby settle down? Why can’t he find the right woman? And what, if anything, is he missing out on?

Sondheim’s classic musical comedy is returned to its 1970’s origins in this new production, featuring the songs including Being Alive, You Could Drive A Person Crazy, Getting Married Today and The Ladies Who Lunch.

This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International (Europe). All authorised performance materials are also supplied by MTI Europe. www.mtishows.co.uk

Duration: 2 hours 15 minutes including interval.

We don’t want to give away any spoilers for shows, but understand that some content may cause distress for audiences. If there are certain themes or content that you would find particularly upsetting, we encourage you to contact us before viewing to find out more about the show – please email boxoffice@mountview.org.uk.

Company features strong language, scenes of a sexual nature and depictions of drug/alcohol use.

Mountview require all audience members aged 18+ to show documentation of a negative Lateral Flow or PCR test – including those who are fully vaccinated.  The test must have been completed within 48hrs of the performance, and audience members will need to show an NHS email or text message to prove their negative result.

In accordance with Mountview’s audience COVID-safety measures, all audience members aged 11+ are required to wear a face covering inside the building, including the auditorium and foyer, unless an exemption applies. Visitors should log in via the NHS Test and Trace app upon entry to Mountview. View our COVID-19 Audience FAQs.

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Booking Info

Dates

This production is double cast
Sat 29 Jan, 7.15pm – Bobby cast (featuring Ally)

Mon 31 Jan, 7.15pm – Robert cast (featuring Iwan)

Tue 1 Feb, 7.15pm – Bobby cast (featuring Ally)

Wed 2 Feb, 2.15pm – Robert cast (featuring Iwan)

Wed 2 Feb, 7.15pm – Bobby cast (featuring Ally)

Thu 3 Feb, 7.15pm – Robert cast (featuring Iwan)

Fri 4 Feb, 7.15pm – Bobby cast (featuring Ally)

Sat 5 Feb, 2.15pm – Robert cast (featuring Iwan)


Please check the timing of your chosen performance carefully.

Venue

Backstage Theatre, Mountview, 120 Peckham Hill Street, London SE15 5JT

To Book

020 8881 2201

Industry Bookings

If you are an agent, casting director or industry colleague looking to view this production, please contact Neil Rutherford - neilrutherford@mountview.org.uk

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Cerys Burton

Playing:
Chutney (Shampoo cast) / Paulette (Conditioner cast)

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Elspeth Day-Collins

Playing:
Nancy

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Jack Gibson

Playing:
Emmett Forrest (Shampoo cast)

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Dan Gill

Playing:
Sandy Padman / Winthrop / Courtney / Guard

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Iwan James

Playing:
Charles II

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Ally Kennard

Playing:
Aaron Schultz / Carl / Elle's dad / Guard

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Yazmin King

Playing:
Store Manager / Whitney / Judge / Sales Person
(Chorus Captain)

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Ellie-Jo Makewell

Playing:
Elle Woods (Shampoo cast)

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Sam Malone

Playing:
Thomas Killigrew

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Yali Topol Margalith

Playing:
Kate

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Hermione Mason

Playing:
Rose Gwynn
(Dance Captain)

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Izi Maxwell

Playing:
Elle Woods (Conditioner cast)

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Scott McClure

Playing:
Kyle / Dana / Guard
(Chorus Captain)

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Summer Priest

Playing:
Leilani / Joyce Riley

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Jake Stephen

Playing:
Professor Callahan (Conditioner cast)

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Carol Harvey

Director

Carol trained as an actor at the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama. She has worked extensively in theatre, television and film, work includes Theatre: Dead Sheep (UK tour), Two and Vinegar Tom (Courtyard Theatre), Man of the Moment (Forum Theatre), The Elephant Man, Listen Do you Want to Know a Secret? and White Rose (Belgrade, Coventry). TV: Coronation Street, Family Business, Fortysomething, Armando Iannucci Shows, Children’s Ward, The Bill, Casualty, Heartbeat. Film: Sex Lives of The Potato Men and The Academy.

Catherine Jayes

Musical Director

Catherine is an Associate Director of Cheek by Jowl. She has worked at the National, RSC, Globe, Watermill, Chichester, Open Air, Menier Chocolate Factory and many regional theatres. West End, Broadway, UK/US/World tours. Tony, Olivier, Grammy Awards. Work on films includes: DeLovely, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Allelujah, Stoker. Albums: The Card and The Color Purple.

Shelby Williams

Choreographer

Shelby trained at London Studio Centre and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School.

Theatre includes: As a dancer with Matthew Bourne: Cinderella, The Car-Man, Nutcracker!, Highland Fling, Edward Scissorhands, and Swan Lake, Ballet Work 1020 (Martin Creed), Turandot and Lucrezia Borgia (ENO).

As Choreographer/Director/Associate: State Fair, A Little Night Music, London Road, Little Women, Company (Mountview), Oklahoma! (Wyndhams/Young Vic), Spike! (Hope Mill Theatre tour), Georgiana (Buxton Festival), Twilight Zone (Ambassadors), Little Women (Stanix), The Wind in the Willows (UK/Palladium), Bend It Like Beckham (Phoenix), Made in Dagenham (Adelphi), Turandot (ENO), Magical Night (ROH), Sweet Charity (Royal Exchange), Speech and Debate (Trafalgar Studios), Merchant of Venice (Almeida), Anna Nicole – The Opera (BAM), Idomeneo (Grange Park), Carmen (Salzburg Opera), Dido and Aeneas, La Voix Humane (Opera North), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Opera Lyon/La Scala/Opera Philadelphia/Opera de Rouen).

Film includes: The Danish Girl, The Theory of Everything, Collette, WWZ, Great Expectations, The CarMan, The Nutcracker, Swan Lake 3D.

Anna Toumanova

Set and Costume Designer

Anna Toumanova trained as a theatre designer at the Moscow Arts Theatre School and Wimbledon School of Art.

She has worked extensively on the London fringe, in drama schools and in regional theatres.

Her productions include Becket, or the Honour of God by Jean Anouilh and Othello (Southwark Playhouse), The Alchemist by Ben Jonson at the Cambridge Arts Theatre, Robbers by Lyle Kessler (Tristan Bates Theatre), and a wide variety of productions at East 15, ALRA and the Oxford School of Drama.

Alex Musgrave

Lighting Designer

Alex has been nominated for an Off West End Award for Best Lighting Design for You are Here (Southwark Playhouse).

Alex was the recipient of the Association of Lighting Designers Lumiere Scheme.

Most recent design work includes: Home (Chichester Festival Theatre), The White Factory (Marylebone Theare), Private Lives (The Barn Theatre, Cirencester), The Cunning Little Vixen (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire), Rapunzel (Watermill Theatre), Anyone Can Whistle and You Are Here (Southwark Playhouse), Oppenheimer (Mountview), King Charles III and Let The Right One In (ArtsEd).

Yvonne Gilbert

Sound Designer

Recent theatre credits include: The Jungle Book and Brief Encounter (Watermill), Creature (Sadler’s Wells/English National Ballet), Lazuli Skies (Birmingham Royal Ballet), La Cage Aux Folles (Park Theatre), Coming Clean (Trafalgar Studios), Opera Undone (Trafalgar Studios), Swallows and Amazons (York Theatre Royal), Hamlet , The Tempest, Henry V, Twelfth Night (Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre).

Yvonne will be Sound Designer on The Handmaid’s Tale for the English National Opera in 2022.