Rare Promo Flyer, Boston ; Company ; Dean Jones, Elaine Stritch, Donna McKechnie

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Promotional Flyer (Shubert Theatre, Boston, Mass ; March 21- April 11, 1970) ; Dean Jones, Elaine Stritch, Donna McKechnie et al in Company, a musical comedy by Stephen Sondheim & George Furth ; In Good
condition.
1 flyer ; 5 1/2
-by-9
inches ; [
New York, N.Y].
Harold Prince, in association with Ruth Mitchell, presents Dean Jones, Elaine Stritch, Barbara Barrie, George Coe, Teri Ralston, Charles Kimbrough, Donna McKechnie, Susan Browning, Pamela Myers, Merle Louise [in] Company a musical comedy, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by George Furth, scenic production designed by Boris Aronson, costumes by D.D. Ryan, lighting by Jules Fisher, musical direction by Harold Hastings, orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick, musical numbers staged by Michael Bennett, production directed by Harold Prince.
Dean Jones bio:
"When Dean Jones began his motion picture career in 1956, he was just biding his time until he got his real break. The former crooner-turned-actor once recalled, “I wish I could say I had this master plan for a career, but I always thought acting was something I’d just do until I had a hit record. Born on January 25, 1931, in Decatur, Alabama, Dean liked to fish in the nearby Tennessee River and sing; his father, a railroad worker, would accompany him on the guitar. At 15 he left home to pursue a singing career, picking up odd jobs as a coal loader, cotton picker, and dishwasher. He began singing in a New Orleans club that paid three dollars a night, plus dinner. After four months the club folded, and Dean beat a path back to Decatur to complete his high school education. A year of voice study at Kentucky’s Asbury College was followed by a four-year hitch with the United States Navy, which took Dean to San Diego, California. Whenever he had a day off, Dean headed to Hollywood to audition for orchestras; he eventually won a screen test and contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Instead of singing for the cameras, however, he starred in mostly straight, dramatic roles. Among his early films were Vincente Minnelli’s Tea and Sympathy, Torpedo Run with Glenn Ford, and Jailhouse Rock with Elvis Presley.
In 1960, Dean found fame in Broadway’s Under the Yum Yum Tree. While starring in television’s Ensign O’Toole, he was tapped by Walt Disney to become the Studio’s leading man, appearing in such films as The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit, The Shaggy D.A., and Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo. He returned to the Broadway stage in 1970, appearing in Steven Sondheim’s Company. Dean later appeared in a number of Disney television specials, including Disney’s Greatest Dog Stars in 1976. He starred in the first of a number of Disney remakes—The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes in 1995; and, in 1997, That Darn Cat and the ABC television movie The Love Bug. Dean passed away on Tuesday, September 1, 2015 at the age of 84. While Dean’s hit record proved elusive, he scored a number of hit movies while under contract with The Walt Disney Studios. By 1975, Variety named six of his Disney features on its list of all-time box office champions, including The Love Bug, That Darn Cat, Snowball Express, The Ugly Dachshund, The ,000,000 Duck, and Blackbeard’s Ghost."
Stephen Sondheim bio:
"Stephen Sondheim was born in New York on 22 March 1930, and is widely acknowledged as the most innovative, most influential and most important composer and lyricist in modern Broadway history. For more than 50 years, he has set an unsurpassed standard of brilliance and artistic integrity in the musical theatre. His accolades include an Academy Award, eight Tony Awards (more than any other composer) including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, multiple Drama Desk awards and a Pulitzer Prize. He has written the music and lyrics for: Saturday Night (1954) A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (1962) Anyone Can Whistle (1964) Company (1970) Follies (1971) A Little Night Music (1973) The Frogs (1974) Pacific Overtures (1976) Sweeney Todd (1979) Merrily We Roll Along (1981) Sunday In The Park With George (1984) Into The Woods (1987) Assassins (1991) Passion (1994) Bounce (2003) which later became Road Show (2008). He has also written lyrics for: West Side Story (1957) Gypsy (1959) Do I Hear A Waltz? (1965) Candide (1973, additional lyrics) ... For films, he composed the scores of Stavisky (1974) and co-composed Reds (1981), as well as songs for The Seven Percent Solution (1976) and Dick Tracy (1990). He also wrote the songs for the television production Evening Primrose (1966), co-authored the film The Last of Sheila (1973) and the play Getting Away With Murder (1996). He provided incidental music for the plays The Girls Of Summer (1956), Invitation To A March (1961), Twigs (1971), The Enclave (1973) and a new production of King Lear (2007) and songs for the plays I Know My Love (1951) and A Mighty Man Is He (1955). He wrote the "Passionella" segment of The World of Jules Feiffer (1963), and additional material for Hot Spot (1963), The Mad Show (1966) and The Madwoman Of Central Park West (1979). He created cryptic crosswords for New York Magazine in the late 1960s, and was screenwriter for the television series Topper (c.1953). As an actor, he featured in the television revision of June Moon (1974) and has appeared as himself in the film Camp (2003). Sondheim studied at George School, Pennsylvania (1942 to 1946) and at Williams College, Massachusetts (1946 to 1950), where he was a music major. On college graduation he received the Hutchinson Prize for Composition, and subsequently studied music theory and composition with the avant-garde composer Milton Babbitt. Mr Sondheim’s early work for school and college theatre includes By George (1945) and Phinney’s Rainbow (1948). Between 1948 and 1951, he wrote All That Glitters, High Tor, Mary Poppins and Climb High as part of a course of study under his mentor Oscar Hammerstein II. Saturday Night (1954), his first professional musical, finally had its world premiere at London’s Bridewell Theatre in 1997 at the instigation of The Stephen Sondheim Society, followed by a Broadway production two years later. Mr Sondheim has received the Tony Award for Best Score/Music/Lyrics for Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Into The Woods and Passion, all of which won the New York Drama Circle award for Outstanding /Best Musical, as did Pacific Overtures and Sunday In The Park With George. In total, his works have accumulated more than sixty individual and collaborative Tony Awards. “Sooner Or Later” from the film Dick Tracy won the 1999 Academy Award for Best Song. Mr Sondheim received The Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1984 for Sunday In The Park With George. In 1983, he was elected to The American Academy of Arts and Letters, which awarded him the Gold Medal for Music in 2006. In 1990, he was appointed the first Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Oxford University and was the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award in the 1993 Kennedy Center Honors. In 1992, he declined the National Medal of Arts from the Bush Administration but accepted it from the Clinton administration in 1996. In 2000, he was honoured with the Praemium Imperiale, Japan’s highest honour for a lifetime of artistic achievement; in 2001 was granted the Fellows of the Phi Beta Kappa Society Award; and in 2002 received the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Richard Rodgers Award. In February 2007, he was a recipient of the 49th Grammy Awards Trustees Award, an award recognizing outstanding contributions to the industry in a non-performing category. He has been patron to The Stephen Sondheim Society since its foundation in 1993. Mr Sondheim is also on the Council of the Dramatists Guild – the national association of playwrights, composers and lyricists – having served as its President from 1973 to 1981, in which year he founded Young Playwrights Inc. to develop and promote the work of American playwrights aged 18 years and younger. In June 2008, Mr Sondheim received the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre; also the New York transfer of The Menier Chocolate Factory’s London production of Sunday in the Park with George received nine Tony nominations. Mr Sondheim’s most recent show, Road Show (aka Gold, Wise Guys and Bounce), opened off-Broadway in October 2008, and in London in 2011. It had a US revival in June 2013 in Chicago ... In July 2010, Mr Sondheim received the accolade of having a London Prom Concert dedicated to his work and in a ceremony on September 15th New York’s Henry Miller’s Theatre was renamed The Stephen Sondheim Theatre ... In October 2010, the first of two volumes of his collected and annotated lyrics, Finishing the Hat, was published; that same month The Royal Academy of Music conferred on him an Honorary Doctorate of the University of London. Volume two, Look I Made a Hat, was published the following year ... In 2014, Sir Cameron Mackintosh announced that The Ambassadors Theatre in London is to be renamed The Sondheim Theatre in Stephen’s honour ... "