29 Jan 2022
Elaine Paige at the BBC
Selection of Elaine Paige’s appearances on BBC TV over her four decades in show business and musical theatre
Original Cast Album: Company
In 1970, right after the triumphant premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s groundbreaking concept musical Company, the renowned composer and lyricist, his director Harold Prince, the show’s stars, and a large pit orchestra all went into a Manhattan recording studio as part of a time-honored Broadway tradition: the making of the original cast album. What ensued was a marathon session in which, with the pressures of posterity and the coolly exacting Sondheim’s perfectionism hanging over them, all involved pushed themselves to the limit.
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Elaine Stritch Self / Joanne
Dean Jones Self / Bobby
Pamela Myers Self / Marta
Beth Howland Self / Amy
Barbara Barrie Self / Sarah
Charles Braswell Self / Larry
Susan Browning Self / April
George Coe Self / David
John Cunningham Self / Peter
Steve Elmore Self / Paul
George Furth Self
Harold Hastings Self
Charles Kimbrough Self / Harry
Merle Louise Self / Susan
Donna McKechnie Self / Kathy
Teri Ralston Self
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