We went to see the extremely limited run of “Company” at Lincoln Center this afternoon. Talk about your once-in-a-lifetime casts: Neil Patrick Harris, Stephen Colbert, Jon Cryer, Anika Noni Rose, and Patti LuPone (showing that she can still stop a show when she belted out “Here’s to the Ladies Who Lunch.”) Considering the minimal amount of time they must have had to rehearse, they did a superb job with it. A Sondheim show that has truly aged well.
Also, speaking of aging well, funny story: We ate at a restaurant called P.J. Rourke’s and among various decorations on the wall, they had a photograph taken in what looked like the days of old radio, and it looked to be of an incredibly young Fyvush Finkel, a legend of Jewish theater not to mention such programs as “Picket Fences” and “Boston Public.” But no one in the restaurant knew if it was him. So who did we run into coming out of Lincoln Center, departing the same performance of “Company” as we had just seen? Fyvush Finkel, who verified that it was indeed a picture of him. In case you’re wondering, he liked the show.
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