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Today's movie was actually a video of a production of Steven Sondheim's

Company (2007)

This is the one that was done on the cheap with actors/singers also playing instruments.

I was leary of this but it actually works.

I just wanted to see a production of the musical because one of its climactic songs is in our wedding ceremony and it was fun to watch it in context.

This production is sharp and smart and very competent.

This is not the same as a film. The vocabulary is different. It is a reproduction of a successful stage presentation with a minimum of camera intrusion.

The fourth wall of the theater still operates but it is clearly staged and the instrument business underlines that.

If it were a movie, it would be a 4 out of Netflix5.

Labels: film, films