Screenvision announced that tickets are on sale NOW for its limited presentation of the New York Philharmonic's critically acclaimed, all-star revival of Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award-winning musical, Company. Through an arrangement with Ellen M. Krass Productions and the New York Philharmonic, Screenvision will bring the special performance - recorded live last month at Lincoln Center's famed Avery Fisher Hall in New York City - to hundreds of its North American digital cinema theaters beginning on June 15.
Company will screen in over (50) markets that not only includes Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Boston but smaller cities including St. Louis and Milwaukee to give as wide an audience as possible an affordable Broadway experience. Tickets, showtimes and locations are now available at:
companyonscreen.com Tickets will be available at $18 each - a mere fraction of the cost of a Broadway production of this caliber.
The highly-buzzed about revival of Company features an all-star cast of television and stage heavyweights. Headlining the production is (in alphabetical order):
Craig Bierko,
Stephen Colbert,
Jon Cryer,
Katie Finneran,
Neil Patrick Harris,
Christina Hendricks,
Aaron Lazar,
Patti LuPone,
Jill Paice,
Martha Plimpton,
Anika Noni Rose,
Jennifer Laura Thompson,
Jim Walton and
Chryssie Whitehead. Sondheim specialist
Paul Gemignani conducts the
New York Philharmonic with
Jonathan Tunick's original orchestrations.
Lonny Price is the director;
Josh Rhodes is the choreographer;
Lonny Price and
Matt Cowart are the producers and
Ellen M. Krass is the executive producer.
With music and lyrics by
Stephen Sondheim and a book by
George Furth, Company follows five couples and their bachelor friend, Robert (Harris), exploring the true meaning of being in a relationship through a series of vignettes.
Company marks the latest addition to Screenvision's alternate content strategy, designed to bring events from the worlds of fine arts, sports, children's programming and engaging documentary programming to the movie theater environment. These events are designed to provide patrons across North America an opportunity to experience captivating programming to which they otherwise would not likely have access.
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