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How the Cast of ‘Company’ Learned of Stephen Sondheim’s Death: ‘It Was Crushing’

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Gordon Cox Theater EditorThe cast of the new Broadway revival of “Company” was in the middle of a two-show Friday on Thanksgiving weekend when they heard the news that the musical’s legendary composer, Stephen Sondheim, had died at the age of 91.Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below:Because the “Company” ensemble had worked with and gotten to know Sondheim — he had been at the production’s first preview just a few days before — the show’s Tony-winning director, Marianne Elliott (“War Horse,” “Angels in America”), wanted to make sure she was the one to tell them the news. “I had got the information that morning … and I said, ‘Is it okay if I tell the cast, so that they don’t hear it on social media?'” Elliott recalled on the new.

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