Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Also, highlights from New York stages.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:00AMTuesday, December 27, 2011
By Peter Filichia --
As that famous Frank Loesser song asked, “Here is the jackpot question in advance: what are you doing New Year’s Eve?”
Most will party, but many know that it�…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 03:07AMThursday, December 22, 2011
Tri-State Actors Theater's take on holiday classic is a little mean and self-aware
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:00AMWednesday, December 21, 2011
Peter Filichia gives us the scoop on what's going on in the Garden State
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:14AMTuesday, December 20, 2011
Peter Filichia –
So what would be the most logical Broadway musical to open on Christmas Day?
Why, Here’s Love, right? After all, it’s the musical of Miracle on 34th Street.
But …
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:02AMFriday, December 16, 2011
No one can accuse Bonnie & Clyde of not having a slam-bang opening. A barrage of rifle shots rings out as the two killers sit in the front seat of their car. These criminals aren’t just be…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 09:09AMWednesday, December 14, 2011
The show returns to McCarter Theatre Center with familiar and new faces.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:00AMPeter Filichia lets us know what's going on where
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:09AMTuesday, December 13, 2011
This new take on the ugly duckling story has an anti-bullying message
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:00AMMonday, December 12, 2011
By Peter Filichia --
You’re in the middle of holiday shopping. You want to get something nice for that couple next door and their toddler. But you don’t have much do-re-mi.
For the a…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:53PMSaturday, December 10, 2011
Mon, Dec. 5. Twenty days to Christmas, twenty days to Christmas, plenty of time to do our Christmas shopping. Thus, many of us instead went to the Roundabout's staged reading of that 1963 mu…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 07:52AMFriday, December 9, 2011
Holiday classic presented in radio play-style, sound effects and all
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:15AMWednesday, December 7, 2011
Production uses eight actors and 11 more to fill 57 roles, as well as play 23 inanimate objects and one animal.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:00AMO come all ye jaded Not everyone is sentimental about the holidays. Take James Hindman and Ray Roderick, who have written a musical called “A Christmas Survival Guide.” The authors have …
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:00AMTuesday, December 6, 2011
By Peter Filichia –
In my recent book Broadway Musical MVPs, 1960-2010, I gave awards that baseball annually bestows but theater doesn’t: Most Valuable Player, Comeback Player of the Y…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:35AMFriday, December 2, 2011
Laurel and Hardy and Bo Peep.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:30AMMinimal cast will tackle the classic "A Christmas Carol"
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:00AMThursday, December 1, 2011
The six-character, one-set black comedy comes to Women's Theater Company in Parsippany.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:00AMThe production of 'River,' at the Bickford Theatre in Morris Township, runs too shallow.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:00AMTuesday, November 29, 2011
The production is a treat for the ears -- and the pocketbook
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:00AMIf you can’t see a musical on closing night, make sure you at least see it during closing week. Many of the show’s fans come out to say goodbye, to revisit the producti…
SOURCE: legacy.theatermania.com at 07:09AMOn the eve of Bye Bye Birdie’s return to Broadway, let’s check in with one of the original young residents of Sweet Apple, Ohio during the show’s original 607-performance r…
SOURCE: legacy.theatermania.com at 07:09AMConal Creedon’s one-act plays at the Irish Repertory Theatre are excellent. How I wish that the staging were as accomplished. Not the direction, but the staging. There is a difference.…
SOURCE: legacy.theatermania.com at 07:09AMMonday, November 28, 2011
By Peter Filichia --
What musical gave its leading character the best opening song as well as the best closing song? For men, the answer is probably My Fair Lady, as Rex Harrison got to si…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:50PMFriday, November 25, 2011
So here’s the fourth official Broadway revival of the show that didn’t even finish second in the Best Musical Tony voting when it was originally produced. The Sound of Music and …
SOURCE: legacy.theatermania.com at 08:08PMHas any Broadway composer-lyricist had as varied a resume as Juno’s Marc Blitzstein?
In 1930, Blitzstein made his Great White Way debut with The Garrick Gaities, that mainstream show…
SOURCE: legacy.theatermania.com at 08:08PMIt was a month where rumors ran rife that Roundabout would mount a revival of High Spirits. If so, wonderful! This is a much underrated show, which I remember fondly, even though I saw it 44…
SOURCE: legacy.theatermania.com at 08:08PMIt was the month that John Neville died. Forty years ago, I saw him play Humbert Humbert in Lolita, My Love at the Shubert in Boston. My buddy Josh Ellis had already seen him do it at the Sh…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 06:15PMThe composer's "Nutcracker" music is being used in a new, offbeat musical
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:45AMWednesday, November 23, 2011
Last month, I was asked to judge a competition that the Speech & Theatre Association of New Jersey annually sponsors for high-schoolers. My, I can’t tell you how many teens chose t…
SOURCE: legacy.theatermania.com at 12:22AMGood Lord, what a great number of would-be casting agents there are out there! I heard from so many of you when I asked on Feb. 6 whom you’d like to see in certain roles. I can see you…
SOURCE: legacy.theatermania.com at 12:22AM 
