DOTHAN, Ala. — Southeast Alabama Community Theatre is opening its season with Company, the Stephen Sondheim musical that takes a humorous look at marriage, relationships and bachelorhood.
Tickets for the season-opening production went on sale Monday, Aug. 31.
The story follows Robert, known as Bobby, on the night of his 35th birthday as the confirmed bachelor considers his unmarried life. Through a series of dinners, drinks and even a wedding, his married friends — “those good and crazy people” — share the pros and cons of taking on a spouse.
Those interactions force the habitually single Bobby to question his determination to remain a bachelor, leading to a humorous series of encounters centered on love, commitment and marriage.
Company premiered on Broadway in 1970 with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by George Furth. The musical began as a series of short plays about marriage, with Bobby eventually created as a composite of the bachelors featured in those stories.
The production is widely credited as one of Broadway’s first “concept musicals,” using a central theme and a series of vignettes rather than a traditional linear storyline. It has become one of Sondheim’s most influential and frequently revived works.
SEACT will present Company at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 16; Thursday, Sept. 17; Friday, Sept. 18; and Saturday, Sept. 19.
Performances will be held at the Cultural Arts Center, 909 S. Saint Andrews St. in Dothan.
All seats are $28, and SEACT season tickets apply. Tickets can be purchased through SEACT.com.
SEACT advises that the production contains mild profanity, adult themes and situations, along with representations of tobacco and cannabis use. Due to licensing restrictions, the original content will not be altered.
