SOURCE: A review of Company, in Dance Magazine, Vol. 67, No. 4, April, 1993, p. 54.

In the following review, Phillips offers a positive assessment of a revival of Company.

For those unlucky enough to have missed the original 1970 staging, the January 23, 1993, abridged version of Company—titled Company: The Original Cast in Concert—had to suffice for this lifetime. Which it did. Produced and directed by Barry Brown at California's Long Beach Civic Light Opera, the concert combined elements of a reunion (of all but two of the original Broadway cast members), a party, and a tribute to the talents involved, both living and deceased. It also veered occasionally and astonishingly into a musical-theater time warp. During “Side by Side by Side,” the spoken line about how bachelor Robert stays pretty much the same while everyone else gets older garnered an added laugh: Dean Jones hasn't changed in twenty-three years.

Strong whiffs...