Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Alicia Keys is going where Whoopi Goldberg, Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter, and Will and Jada Pinkett Smith have gone before her.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 12:53PMSee what can happen when you root for a sports team? Consider the Oyster, David MacGregor’s terrific new comedy that’s playing at The Purple Rose Theatre Company in Chelsea, Mich…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:04AMTuesday, June 28, 2011
By Peter Filichia --
There was a good deal of talk last week about the change in cigarette packaging. Terribly graphic images are now to be put on the labels.
Why couldn’t this have ha…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:05AMMonday, June 27, 2011
My, what wondrous responses so many of you gave to my question, “What line or lyric that comes from a musical is one that you tend to say quite often in your everyday life?” Tony…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AMFriday, June 24, 2011
Next to "When are you going to write about Follies in Washington?" the question I've been most asked is "When are you going to write about Spider-man?" On December 26, 20…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AMWednesday, June 22, 2011
Interesting, isn't it, that a story that proves the transformative power of art should be one of the oldest and most enduring? That’s One Thousand and One Nights, the ancient Arabic st…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AMTuesday, June 21, 2011
By Peter Filichia --
Last week, we talked about the Robert Merrill-Patrice Munsel recording of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel that was made in 1955 – when the world wasn’t as fra…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:20AMMonday, June 20, 2011
Here in Toronto at the annual Luminato Festival, meant to be a city-wide arts celebration, one pays a pretty penny for most of the attractions. Andromache, a contemporary retelling of the Ra…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AMSaturday, June 18, 2011
I'm on a plane, getting ready to see a theatrical event to which I've looked forward for months. Ah, you're saying, Follies in Washington. Over the past few months, I've heard these two ques…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:43PMFriday, June 17, 2011
Of the two roles that Nitya Vidyasagar has in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” she prefers the one that has the fewer lines.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:52AMI'm on a plane, getting ready to see a theatrical event to which I've looked forward for months. Ah, you're saying, Follies in Washington. Over the past few months, I've heard these two ques…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AMThursday, June 16, 2011
Everyone has a dark side — even fairy tale characters, Dennis Giacino believes.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 04:14PMWednesday, June 15, 2011
Were you still watching the Tonys at 10:20 p.m.? You probably were, because Sunday’s edition is considered one of the better shows of recent years. Even Dallas Maverick fans might have…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:04AMMonday, June 13, 2011
By Peter Filichia --
This June is bustin’ out all over with a recording of Carousel that hasn’t been available for decades. Look around! Look around! Look around! The first studio cast…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:25PMAnd so, at 11 pm, once The Book of Mormon won the Tony for Best Musical, the 2010-2011 season in New York came to an official end. Let’s take a look at it from A to Z: A is for Arianda…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:13AMFriday, June 10, 2011
Congratulations to Fred Abramowitz, Peter Alfano, John Atkins, AnyaToes, Susan Berlin, Brigadude, Laura Frankos, Ingrid Gammerman, John Griffin, Cathy Jones, David Kanter, Jack Lechner, Marc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:03AMWednesday, June 8, 2011
“Stay off the pipe, and don’t show your dick on the Internet.” That advice comes courtesy of Chris Rock. He made it his final remark after being the spokesperson for the ca…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:05AMMonday, June 6, 2011
You learn something new every day – or you’re supposed to. And I did when “Scooterberwyn” and “BwayPassion” wrote to correct me on a lyric I’d cited. When I wrote about Damn Ya…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:36PMBe honest. When you heard that Beowulf Boritt got a Tony nomination as Best Scenic Designer of a Musical for The Scottsboro Boys, weren’t you a little surprised? Did you exclaim, &ldqu…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:04AMFriday, June 3, 2011
It’s Tuesday morning, May 31. Rory O’Malley is ironing, which is never any fun. The onerous task starts him muttering to himself while he removes every wrinkle from that white sh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:04AMWednesday, June 1, 2011
June 1. It’s suddenly 2011-2012, the beginning of a brand-new theater season. And while others are still making predictions on who’ll win the Tonys on the second Sunday of this m…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:04AMTuesday, May 31, 2011
By Peter Filichia ---
It’s a record that will probably never be beaten: The New York Yankees’ Joe DiMaggio got a hit in 56 straight games in 1941. All the pitchers he conquered during …
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:16AMMonday, May 30, 2011
I drove to Massachusetts to be the commencement speaker at the graduation ceremonies at Arlington Catholic High School. As I took to the podium and saw the kids in their graduation robes, I …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:03AMFriday, May 27, 2011
He was a child of privilege, with a mother who was a CNN anchorwoman and a father who was chief of police in Atlanta. And he skyrocketed to fame in 2002, finishing second in the first season…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 09:09AMWell, I must admit that Part One of the Broadway University Final Examination has flummoxed a number of students. Of course, I haven’t heard from everyone, for the deadline is not unti…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:04AMWednesday, May 25, 2011
So the Rapture didn’t occur on Saturday. But one might have thought the world was about to end — and good riddance, too — from the show that Two River Theater Company opened that night.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 09:29AMActually, you can sleep as much as you want at Sleep No More. No one insists you do much of anything once you enter the ravaged 27th Street building where this two-hour experience is ensconc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:03AMTuesday, May 24, 2011
By Peter Filichia --
More often than not, when the leads of a studio recording get into the recording booth, they’re meeting for the first time. Their lack of chemistry is far too obviou…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:26AMMonday, May 23, 2011
Josh Gad told about the conversation he’d had with his 92-year-old grandfather. The young star of The Book of Mormon had let Gramps know that he was attending the Drama League Awards a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:03AMFriday, May 20, 2011
On Wednesday, we had the first part of the 2011 Broadway University Final Examination, where you were asked to identify lyrics from 50 songs and shows. Now it’s time for the essay part…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:04AMWednesday, May 18, 2011
A-A-B-A. It’s the classic structure of many show songs: two sections that are identical – which we each call “A” -- is followed by a different-sounding section called…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:04AM 
