Tuesday, 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 12:29AMTuesday, March 1, 2011
By Peter Filichia
It’s been 38 years now since A Little Night Music opened and Fredrik told Desiree, “You must meet my wife.” Indeed we did, in one of Stephen Sondheim’s most fetchi…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:42AMMonday, February 21, 2011
By Peter Filichia --
Spent Presidents Day thinking about presidents who’ve shown up in musicals.
Recall that Lola sang, “You’ve seen the sign that says, ‘George Washington once sl…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:43PMMonday, February 14, 2011
By Peter Filichia --
Most long-time football fans don’t realize it, but they know a song from The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
How can this be? The musical version of James Thurber’s…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:54PMTuesday, February 8, 2011
By Peter Filichia –
Fifty years ago, Camelot was in the middle of its six-week reign as The #1 Record Album in the land.
Not The #1 Musical Theater Record Album in the land. The #1 Reco…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 01:23AMTuesday, February 1, 2011
By Peter Filichia --
So this is the week we celebrate Groundhog Day, which has taken on a new and different meaning ever since that Bill Murray movie debuted in 1993. In case you’ve miss…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:49AMTuesday, January 25, 2011
Once The Small World of Charity was announced in early 1965, all Broadway was looking forward to this new Bob Fosse musical that would star Gwen Verdon. But there was never anything small …
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:02AMTuesday, January 18, 2011
By Peter Filichia --
Since MasterworksBroadway and Arkiv have made concerted efforts to re-release a number of stage recordings of yore, I’ve found that my friends have been most looking…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 04:24AMTuesday, January 11, 2011
By Peter Filichia --
It’s one of the worst-kept secrets of musical theater. Many a song that was written for one musical wound up dropped – but some time later wound up in another show…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 01:05AMTuesday, January 4, 2011
Nice tribute to Jerry Herman at the Kennedy Center Awards last week. While the composer-lyricist sat in a box above the action, an all-star cast performed three songs from La Cage aux Folles…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:09AMMonday, December 20, 2010
By Peter Filichia --
Many a musical theater writer has found that following a smash hit with another is difficult if not impossible. So after Cole Porter had the biggest success of his ca…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:29PMTuesday, December 14, 2010
By Peter Filichia --
Fifty years ago this week, Wildcat opened with one of the most beloved stars of the era: Lucille Ball. Composer Cy Coleman and lyricist Carolyn Leigh certainly gave h…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 01:04AMTuesday, December 7, 2010
By Peter Filichia – Might you indulge me in a personal story? It’s Tuesday, Nov. 9, 1965 around 5 p.m., and I’m returning home from school -- but not before I stop at Harvard Universit…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:15AMTuesday, November 30, 2010
By Peter Filichia --
It may be the song that many people most dread during the holiday season: “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” For one thing, the song is certainly is longer than “Ru…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 03:38AMTuesday, November 23, 2010
By Peter Filichia -- Thanksgiving is upon us, so let’s get in a thankful mood.
Here’s hoping that you indeed have a great deal for which to be thankful: health, relatives, friends, a j…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:42AMTuesday, November 16, 2010
Oh, the drums go bang, and the cymbals clang, and the horns...
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 08:28AMHe doesn’t have a stove; only a hot plate. But here’s betting that he has...
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 08:28AMBy Peter Filichia --
Long before one play by George Bernard Shaw (Pygmalion) became a musical (My Fair Lady in 1956), there was another: GBS’s 1894 play Arms and the Man became the Oscar…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:25AMTuesday, November 9, 2010
By Peter Filichia --
Everyone I know who got the recently released Arkiv CD of What Makes Sammy Run? has said the same thing to me: “What an overture!”
Yes, it is, and for three goo…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:47PM 
