Friday, April 15, 2011
Want 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 01:02AMWednesday, April 13, 2011
Just as some people get their 15 minutes of fame, some comedies get their 15 minutes of laughs before sputtering out. “Private Eyes,” now receiving an adequate production at J City Theat…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:49AMBeyond a how-to manual
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:48AMA childrens’ show that is just peachy
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:48AMKipling for kids
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:48AMAt 5 feet 5 inches tall, Matt Schatz is only about 1,362 feet shorter than his subject matter. It’s the World Trade Center, which at one time was “The Tallest Building in the World.” T…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:47AMHere’s a challenge for husbands and wives: Arrive home and announce you want to take a vacation alone. Be prepared for “What do you mean?” as well as the inevitable “And what are you…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:47AMSome years ago, when an editor asked me to write a new edition of Let’s Put on a Musical, he told me to drop 70 shows from my two previous editions and add 70 new musicals. Making…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AMTuesday, April 12, 2011
By Peter Filichia --
All right, it may not be the most significant anniversary in theatrical history. But for the record, 14 years ago this week – on April 16, 1997 -- David Ives’s new…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:19AMMonday, April 11, 2011
As any con man or lawman can tell you, timing is extraordinarily important in his occupation. If the con man is a little tardy in escaping, he might not get away. If the lawman’s late,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AMFriday, April 8, 2011
How I love being with an audience that’s seeing a musical for the first time during the show’s second year. It was my pleasure-filled experience on Tuesday night when I saw La Ca…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AMWednesday, April 6, 2011
Me and my big mouth (or, for the grammatically conscious among us, my big mouth and I). On one of the recent podcasts I do most Sundays on Broadway Radio for Broadway Stars, the subject came…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AMMonday, April 4, 2011
By Peter Filichia --
Well, it’s April, which makes me think of Company. Not just because it opened 41 years ago this month. Not just because it has a character named April.
But also, b…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:49PMSome time ago, when I heard that a show called War Horse was going to open in London. I gave out a big smile. This was the same title that my buddy Martin Erskine and I once chose for a musi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AMSunday, April 3, 2011
The woman famous for having portrayed Reva Shayne Lewis Cooper Spaulding Lewis in “The Guiding Light” will now be playing a character with far fewer names. Kim Zimmer, the four-time Dayt…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 02:25PMFriday, April 1, 2011
It was the month that I ran into Dick Scanlan on Eighth Avenue and told him that I’d included him in my new book, Broadway Musicals: The Most Valuable Players, 1960-2010. Well, wouldn&…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AMWednesday, March 30, 2011
Who pays attention to a 1945 Broadway musical with a Sigmund Romberg-Dorothy Fields score? Musicals Tonight! producer Mel Miller, that’s who. His last foray of the 2010-2011 season is …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AMTuesday, March 29, 2011
What, no mistaken identity?
That’s the only element of farce that Ken Ludwig has omitted in his extraordinarily funny “The Fox on the Fairway.” Fans of slamming doors and double-enten…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 05:16PMBy Peter Filichia --
We can’t let March go by without celebrating the anniversary of one of the greatest musicals of all time. Fifty-five years ago this month, My Fair Lady opened.
I…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:39AMMonday, March 28, 2011
Every business keeps a ledger of debits and credits. Shall we count each in the current revival of How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying? Director-choreographer Rob Ashford has de…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:02AMFriday, March 25, 2011
March 8, 1979. My buddy Richard Norton and I are discussing the theater news of the day when he off-handedly mentions, “I hear the new musical at Playwrights Horizons is pretty good.&r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:08AMEither the voice-over narrator at the beginning of The Book of Mormon is pre-recorded or he’s an actor with lousy timing. More than once, after an on-stage Mormon responded to somethin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:08AMTuesday, March 22, 2011
By Peter Filichia --
How many rock musicals begin with a waltz?
All right, the song that starts Inner City will never be confused with a Strauss waltz. It’s a jazz waltz, but it's i…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:55AMMonday, March 21, 2011
Broadway may not be in a Golden Age, but it’s certainly in a Golden Age of Drag. In that last decade, eight men who’d played at least one scene in a dress received a Tony nomination for …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:06AMSaturday, March 19, 2011
Starting Tuesday, Mary Testa will be at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, reading newspapers and solving each puzzle in them.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:38AMWednesday, March 16, 2011
How fitting that a production of “Spring Awakening” will arrive in New Jersey soon after spring has awakened around the state.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 12:54PMTuesday, March 15, 2011
By Peter Filichia
How well I remember the early morning of Friday, March 15, 2002.
I had to go out-of-town, and my friend Ken Bloom had volunteered to drive me to the airport, even though …
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:17AMTuesday, March 8, 2011
By Peter Filichia --
If you can get to the always excellent Transport Group’s current production of Hello, Again, so much the better. But if you cannot, there's always the excellent origi…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:29AM 
