Joe Gideon, un famoso coreógrafo y director de Broadway y Hollywood, vive una vida marcada por los excesos de todas clases. Su corazón le da un primer aviso en forma de infarto y los doctores le previenen de que si no cambia de actitud su cuerpo no aguantará más. Pero Joe solo sabe vivir de una manera.
In 1970, right after the triumphant premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s groundbreaking concept musical Company, the renowned composer and lyricist, his director Harold Prince, the show’s stars, and a large pit orchestra all went into a Manhattan recording studio as part of a time-honored Broadway tradition: the making of the original cast album. What ensued was a marathon session in which, with the pressures of posterity and the coolly exacting Sondheim’s perfectionism hanging over them, all involved pushed themselves to the limit.