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New York: Harold Prince, 1970. First edition. Very good plus.. Working script for the original Harold Prince-directed Broadway mounting of Sondheim's innovative classic of musical theater. COMPANY was the work that almost single-handedly established Sondheim's reputation as a true theatrical innovator. While Sondheim's Broadway career as both composer and lyricist began a decade earlier with more traditional works such as A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM, COMPANY marked the beginning of his collaboration with director Harold Prince, a relationship that, according to noted theater critic Howard Kissel, set "Broadway's highest standards" during the decade of their work together. A series of loosely related vignettes, COMPANY has been remounted and reinterpreted a number of times, most recently in the 2021 Broadway gender-swapped revival. The original Broadway production — starring Dean Jones, Donna McKechnie, Susan Browning, George Coe, Pamela Myers, Barbara…