![]() Thomas “Tick-Tock” Jenkins, Current theater critic. That said, I’d get there early for your best choice: it looks like you’ll have plenty of company. While the blogs are reporting that some performances are selling out in other cities (as in DC), the Bijou’s opening night looked to have scattered seats available. Sound volume was generally low (and some weird editing didn’t help, with sudden spikes), but acceptable. (But there’s an idea for an enterprising producer: Company in 3D! It’s like having Bobby-baby-Bobby-bubbi-Bobby in your own living room!). 24, 2010)-As a new service, UTSA students, faculty and staff can purchase discounted tickets valid at all Santikos movie theaters. That said, for $18, the quality of the picture and sound was disappointing: the video was so blurry and overexposed that my companion quipped it was like watching a 3D movie without the classes. Santikos Bijou, San Antonio: See 21 reviews, articles, and photos of Santikos Bijou, ranked No.260 on Tripadvisor among 260 attractions in San Antonio. Look, nobody is happier than I that the Bijou is taking a chance with limited-run performances, and I would be elated if they’d likewise bring the National Theater Live’s performances to the Alamo City. While the first act’s “You Could Drive a Person Crazy” had some questionable musical moments, there was generally fine singing and staging throughout certainly, all was forgiven by the time LuPone razed Lincoln Center to earth in the boozy, scorching “The Ladies Who Lunch.” (I’m not always a fan of Price’s work-his Camelot, also for the Philharmonic, was a hundred ways of horrible-but here he seems to be back in fine form.) Aficionados of Company will be either pleased or appalled by the rare inclusion of “Tick-Tock,” the second act dance break that demonstrates why Sondheim never wrote a disco musical. With an all-star cast (including Neil Patrick Harris a.k.a “Doogie Howser,” Pattie LuPone, and, somewhat incredibly, Stephen Colbert), Company presents a faithful, if not exactly visionary, production of Sondheim’s iconic work, directed with obvious love by Lonny Price. ![]() ![]() Stephen Sondheim’s Company-filmed this past spring in a production by the New York Philharmonic-plays just three more screenings in San Antonio (at the Bijou, for instance), and judging by “opening night’s” performance on Wednesday, it’s a crowd-pleaser.
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