Wednesday, 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 01:04AMTuesday, May 17, 2011
Admit it: when you became interested in musical theater and ran into albums for New Faces of 1952 and New Faces of 1956, you automatically assumed that there was a New Faces on Broadway each…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:07AMMonday, May 16, 2011
So which play did you think was going to win? Sam Bobrick’s The Psychic? Steve Braunstein’s The Tangled Skirt? Robert Ford’s The Fall of the House? Sorry, all you Braunstei…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:03AMFriday, May 13, 2011
Ann Harada’s going to stick up for her young son’s picking up a stick — and using it.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:50AMThis weekend, I’ll spend a lot of time listening to Flahooley, the 1951 Broadway musical that celebrates its 60th anniversary on Saturday. I’ll also ruminate on the many years wh…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:03AMWednesday, May 11, 2011
Next week, I’ll be giving the 2011 Broadway University Final Examination. And once again, based on many requests, it’ll be a two-part, as the Mid-Term was. Back in January, I dec…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:04AMTuesday, May 10, 2011
Mama Morton and Velma Kelly have been wondering “Whatever happened to class?” for some time now. If they saw The Drunkard at the Metropolitan Playhouse, they’d really be sc…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:03PMHad a good time reading Mark Griffin’s very well-written and researched A Hundred or More Hidden Things: The Life and Films of Vincente Minnelli. How nice to know more about such films…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:03PMIf you’ve seen the 1942 movie of Panama Hattie, you haven’t really seen Panama Hattie.
And if you’ve seen the 1954 TV adaptation of Panama Hattie, you haven’t really…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:03PMBy Peter Filichia --
May 10 marks the 112th birthday of the show business celebrity who’s been named in probably more theater songs than anyone else.
All right, I haven’t done a concer…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 07:25AMMonday, May 9, 2011
A couple of months ago, I met a nice young man who was starting a theater company. "What are you doing for your first production?" I asked. His answer surprised me. It was a famous…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:03AMFriday, May 6, 2011
One of these days, Rachel Sheinkin will get a good night’s sleep. But right now, she’s a little too busy to snooze — for she’s working on a show about a most attractive woman who has…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 12:42PMAs Roxie says in her title song in Chicago, “I hope this ain’t too crude” – but really: when you get up in the morning, don’t you first and foremost start walki…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:03AMWednesday, May 4, 2011
There’s plenty of excitement down at the Two River Theater Company in Red Bank. “In a way,” said artistic director John Dias, “two people working here now got Tony nominations on Tue…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:06AMThe Theater Project Bliss Griffin and Michael Flood in "The African Company Presents Richard III." What a cruel irony. The Theatre Project, whose lease at Union County College isn�…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:06AMIt’s the most wonderful time of the year for theater fans who can now cheer, rejoice and offer their congratulations to the many Tony nominees. Seems to me, however, that more theater …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:04AMTuesday, May 3, 2011
I’ll never forget the day I was at a big musical theater exhibit at the Lincoln Center Library of the Performing Arts. To enhance our experience, the sound system was playing selections fr…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:45AMMonday, May 2, 2011
It was the month that the Delaware Theatre Company did a musical called Chasin’ De Blues, subtitled “The Untold Story of Paramount Records.” I wonder what songs they includ…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:03AMFriday, April 29, 2011
There’s a moment deep in Baby, It's You! when The Shirelles are performing in a club in a certain city. They then disappear behind a mylar curtain as an announcer sets up their next en…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:03AMWednesday, April 27, 2011
Many of us only appreciated the buildings after 9/11 took them away from us. Gifted playwright Matt Schatz, however, allows us to value them on a different level. He shows us the intense des…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:31AMIn “The Godfather: Part Two,” he famously said, “I don’t feel I have to wipe everybody out — just my enemies.” So worry not, Al Pacino fans — especially those who are in their …
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:30AMHave you heard the news? There's going to be a frightfully enormous earthquake on May 21 that's going to throw the entire planet into cataclysm. The world will soldier on for a while, but wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:03AMTuesday, April 26, 2011
It’s a dizzying script, one that asks the tough question: are relationships built on truth or destroyed by it?
SOURCE: NJ.com at 01:09PMBy Peter Filichia
It opened on April 11, 1936, and MasterworksBroadway is celebrating its 75th anniversary in style. It’s made the first-ever recording of On Your Toes again available.
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SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 01:18AMMonday, April 25, 2011
Said Mike Canestraro, “Grease. What a piece of shit. And you may quote me.” Well, I just did, Mike – although I should point out that Mike didn’t just say this out of…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:03AMFriday, April 22, 2011
It’s been a trend of late: shows that originated and made their reputations off-Broadway are years later revived as new productions on Broadway. Since 2000, I count 12, including music…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:04AMWednesday, April 20, 2011
So how does a boy from Glencoe, Illinois wind up producing and directing every play by George Bernard Shaw? All right, David Staller hasn’t directed full productions of all 65 of GBS&r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:03AMTuesday, April 19, 2011
By Peter Filichia --
I know, I know. You’ve o.d.’d on Annie. In fact, you o.d.’d on it long ago. That’s what happens when a musical becomes a smash hit and never for a second leaves…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:56AMMonday, April 18, 2011
Suddenly during the first act of Wonderland, the thought hit me. Would this be Stephen Sondheim's favorite musical of the season? I'll grant you that that seems an unlikely scenario. The Fra…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:03AMFriday, April 15, 2011
And to think it all started because he simply wanted to watch a Sidney Poitier movie.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:38AMWant to be a Broadway Star? Well, you can be, albeit vicariously, through a marvelous new board game that’s boldly called Be a Broadway Star. It’s the brainchild of Ken Davenport…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AM 
