Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Good 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 12:22AMTuesday, November 22, 2011
Last month’s brainteaser: What do these musicals have in common? Baby, Bajour, Good Vibrations, The Most Happy Fella, My One and Only, 1776, Stop the World – I Want to Get Off an…
SOURCE: legacy.theatermania.com at 04:23PMGot a nice e-mail from Dan Langan, who’d read my recent piece on the history of telephones in the theater. He was intrigued by my question, “Who was the first playwright to make …
SOURCE: legacy.theatermania.com at 04:23PMDid you see that article about Wikipedia in the New York Times last Friday? The fifth-largest website on the ‘net planned to hold “an editing marathon” at the New York Publ…
SOURCE: legacy.theatermania.com at 04:23PM“Irving Berlin’s White Christmas” may be best described by a line from another Irving Berlin show, “Annie Get Your Gun”: “Everything about it is appealing.”
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:36AMBy Peter Filichia --
Forty-seven years ago this week, musical theater enthusiasts added a new word to their foreign-language vocabulary.
They’d already learned “L’chaim!” from Fi…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:07AMSaturday, November 19, 2011
Anthony Zerbe is offering Hackettstown audiences a capital evening
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:00AMFriday, November 18, 2011
Much has been made - and rightly so - that Stephen Schwartz now has musicals ensconced in both theaters at 1633 Broadway. But the pair of shows may have something else in common.
SOURCE: kritzerland.com at 05:55AMWednesday, November 16, 2011
Should we print his name as anthony zerbe? That might be appropriate just this once — for in his latest endeavor, the actor is portraying that upper-case-phobic poet, e.e. cummings, in “…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:04AMMonday, November 14, 2011
By Peter Filichia --
The birth of any innovation makes for some growing pains. That too was the case with the so-called long-playing record when it came into existence in the late ‘40s. …
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:37PMSunday, November 13, 2011
I'm going to break the promise I made to Roy Miller. Last week, Miller, the producer who discovered The Drowsy Chaperone, asked if I'd come to Hershey, Pennsylvania between Nov. 8-13 to see …
SOURCE: kritzerland.com at 05:37PMThursday, November 10, 2011
New play uses old ideas — amid confusing and tongue-twisting dialogue
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:12AMTuesday, November 8, 2011
By Peter Filichia –
It was to be The Big Show of the season. For decades, “The New Richard Rodgers musical” always was. But Two by Two was going to be The REALLY BIG Show of 1970-1971…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 01:43AMSunday, November 6, 2011
In 1948, there was a musical movie called Summer Holiday, and 11 years later, there was a Broadway musical called Take Me Along. Both came from the same source: Eugene O’Neill’s …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:58AMIt was a month of up-and-down theatergoing. Betrayed was quite moving; Artfuckers wasn’t, and I’m very glad Come Back Little Sheba came back. The 39 Steps was an accomplished and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:58AMPassing Strange is the title. Is diarrhea the subject of this new musical?
Does that sound snarky? Well, really, is it any worse than a certain thing that Stew says from the stage of the B…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:58AMFriday, November 4, 2011
It's the question that every theater critic gets asked by most every theatergoer he meets. It's often a hard question to answer. After all, I usually don't know the taste of the person askin…
SOURCE: kritzerland.com at 06:11AMWednesday, November 2, 2011
South Orange troupe’s take onTony-nominated drama about a gay couple and their conservative parents does the Great White Way one better
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:20AMIt started in 1981 in Laura Aden’s basement. Back then, the idea of a consortium meant to help the five professional theaters in New Jersey seemed radical to some, unnecessary to others. B…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:11AMTuesday, November 1, 2011
With wit and humor — and a couple Neanderthals — new play looks at love, mortality
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:16AMThere’s that old expression, “You don’t have to be Jewish to” – whatever. Well, I’ll say that on this November 1, you don’t have to be Catholic to celebrate All Saints Day. …
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:10AMMonday, October 31, 2011
Chances are, this weekend, you’ll have at least one chance on at least one network to see the movie version of 1776, one of Broadway’s greatest musicals. In March, to celebrate t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:15AMWhenever I get to Paris, not much time passes before I’m singing “You’re in Paris,” Susan Waston’s big song from Ben Franklin in Paris – though the first …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:15AMDid you catch the column I wrote a couple of weeks ago about Broadway Bound? It’s William Torbert Leonard’s 618-page tome that’s subtitled “A Guide to Shows That…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:15AMFriday, October 28, 2011
Last month’s brainteaser: What do these musicals have in common? Baby, Bajour, Good Vibrations, The Most Happy Fella, My One and Only, 1776, Stop the World – I Want to Get Off an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AMWednesday, October 26, 2011
'Mockingbird' star visits Madison Who wouldn’t want to win an Oscar? Mary Badham, that’s who. When she was nominated for her role as Scout in “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the 10-year-old…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:06AMGot a nice e-mail from Dan Langan, who’d read my recent piece on this history of telephones in the theater. He was intrigued by my question, “Who was the first playwright to make…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:09AMTuesday, October 25, 2011
T Charles EricksonStephanie Roth Haberle as Phaedra and Julio Monge as the Minotaur, Phaedra's half-brother in 'Phaedra Backwards' at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 06:54PMThomas Edison (James Glossman) explains his lightbulb to Nikola Tesla (Jon Barker) in âThe Dangers of Electric Lightingâ at the Luna Stage Company in West Orange. That Luna Stage C…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:06AMMonday, October 24, 2011
We all have our favorite recordings. Mine, of course, may not be the same as yours. But of all the studio cast recordings that Lehman Engel made in the early ‘50s of musicals from the…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:49PMI’ve attended backers’ auditions in producers’ posh apartments, hotel banquet rooms, and Sardi’s — most of them for musicals that never raised enough money to s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:23AM 
