I just wasted two hours and eleven minutes suffered through finished watching John Doyle's production of COMAPNY. I thought the casting of this production was nearly flawless from Raul Esparza as Bobby down to all three of the girl friends. Well, okay, with one exception, and that was Joanna. Of course, Joanna is a hard character to like in any production, and it is very difficult to find anyone who can get away with being Elaine Stritch, other than Elaine Stritch.
I hated Mr. Doyle's direction of the piece, and I hated Mr. Doyle's conceit (a good choice of word) of giving the cast instruments to play; even more in this prodcution than in his SWEENEY TODD. There was absolutely no justification for it. Perhaps next, Mr. Doyle will have the cast start building the set while doing the show. He can start with only a ghost light at first preview and go from there. When the set is completely finished AND painted, the show will have to close.