Geelong will be the first regional stop for Stephen Sondheim musical Company, its promoters have announced.
Theatre company Watch This will bring the show to Geelong Performing Arts Centre will deliver four shows from 26 to 28 May.
First performed on Broadway in 1970s, Company has been regarded as one of Sondheim’s finest works.
The script explores themes of loving relationships and the struggle for intimacy.
The new version comes to Geelong after a sell-out season at Melbourne’s fortyfivedownstairs which earned Watch This its 12th Green Room Award nomination and a best-leading-actor nomination for Nick Simpson-Deeks.
The production features an ensemble cast of 14 with Simpson-Deeks in the lead role as Robert alongside Sally Bourne, Gillian Cosgriff, Bianca Baykara, Nathan Carter, Mark Dickinson, Nelson Gardner, Sonya Saures, Lyall Brooks, Elise Brennan, Andrew Kroenert, Chloe Wilson, Bronte Florian and Amy Berrisford.
The script centres on the main character’s 35th birthday, with his closest friends throwing him a surprise party.
“Witty and well-liked, living in the heart of New York and dating three gorgeous women, Robert has it all,“ the promoters explain, “so why can’t he blow out the candles on his birthday cake and make a wish?”
The production’s score containing many of Sondheim’s best-know songs including Being Alive, Side By Side, The Ladies Who Lunch, Getting Married Today and Company.
Watch This last visited Geelong in 2014 with Assassins.
