Leicestershire Youth Arts
known fondly as YA are celebrating 25 years of performing in the
Edinburgh Fringe Festival. One of this years offering’s is the
Stephen Sondheim musical ‘Company’, normally performed by
seven performers, YA has a cast of twelve.
The set appears to be the
bar of a nightclub, but changes with minimal furniture
rearrangements in to several different places. At the rear of the
set are a series of flats on different levels painted like
Manhattan skyscrapers giving four different entrance areas.
Unfortunately as usual YA
simply list the performers in the show not identifying anyone, it
is therefore difficult to praise anyone in particular. There were
several performances of note, the central character Bobby is
rarely off stage and the actor did extremely well with only one or
two slight cracks in his voice during one of the more complicated
songs. The pianist was also one of the characters and one of the
girls played two roles with great panache.
YA normally shortens its
productions but any cuts in this show are not obvious and they
have put on one of the best versions of ‘Company’ I have seen.
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