Monday, May 25, 2015
By Peter FilichiaHow 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 I wa…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 05:58PMGhost is nearly see-through as a musical, but the special effect shine bright.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PMA con man turns up in Sweetwater, Kansas, pretending to be a man of God and selling it in song.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PMThis show could be hazardous to your theatergoing health.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PMFriday, May 22, 2015
When Michael Presser was a wee student in junior high (which is what we used to call middle school), he opened up the newspaper and saw a full-page ad for the then-new musical HOW TO SUCCEED…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 09:45AMIt’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: Here are th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:28AMAll hail Fred Abramowitz, Jason Flum, Susan Berlin, Bill Bickel, Byrd Bonner, Brigadude, Gary Cherpakov, Seth Christenfeld, Dennis Dorner, Adrian Durlester, Paul Ford, Laura Frankos, Ingrid …
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 01:42AMSaturday, May 16, 2015
It’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: Give Your R…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00AMFriday, May 15, 2015
On March 8, 1971, Stephen Schwartz – making all of $22.50 a week thanks to one of his songs — agreed to provide music and some additional lyrics for an upcoming off-Broadway show. Ne…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:03AMCome to the York Theatre Company and see Robert Creighton in drag.
“What’s he doing?” you ask. “LA CAGE? ROCKY HORROR? PAGEANT?”
No, a musical about James Cagney.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 03:18AMSaturday, May 9, 2015
It’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: The 2015 Br…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:47AMFriday, May 8, 2015
Musicals have always been consumed with time. Time signatures, curtain time, A TIME FOR SINGING. GOODTIME CHARLEY, “As Time Goes By” (which originated in a musical and not CASABLANCA), a…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 04:12AMFriday, May 1, 2015
Go ahead. Name a star entrance that’s greater than Peter Pan’s. Try to name one that’s more certain to get applause. You can’t, can you? Of course, such PETER PAN stars as Mary Marti…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:51PMI was excited to hear that Thornton Wilder’s lost manuscript for A DAY IN SANTA FE has finally been found. Rumors had abounded for years that Wilder did not limit his full-length play outp…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 02:39AMSunday, April 26, 2015
It’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: Paris Makes…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:18AMFriday, April 24, 2015
Spencer Lau was quite proud of his pride of lions, his cackle of hyenas and every other group of animals he’d put on stage. For Lau — the music director at Woodruff School in Seabroo…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:01AMOf all the Oscar-winning films I’ve seen, AN AMERICAN IN PARIS is the one I like the least.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 02:23AMFriday, April 17, 2015
If you were in college in the ‘60s and ‘70s, you were probably reading Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. even during the time you’d earmarked for physical science or calculus. The Baby Boomer generat…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:31AMIt’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: Gigi’…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:07AMNine nominations yielded nine Oscars. Never before had a film with so many nominations made a clean sweep. But that’s what GIGI achieved when it won the Academy Award for 1958’s Best Pic…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 02:16AMTuesday, April 14, 2015
By Peter Filichia
If you didn’t get to the Lion Theatre last month, then you missed your chance.
Musicals Tonight! did an excellent staged reading of Hazel Flagg.
At l…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 02:58AMFriday, April 10, 2015
So in 1970, when the nation was entranced with The Carpenters’ “(They Long to Be) Close to You,” Lonny Price was more interested in someone who didn’t necessarily want a girlfriend t…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:35AMThink of how joyous that Friday night must have been. Only five days earlier, the four-year war had ended. Now at last there could be unmitigated happiness. That was especially true in the n…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 03:37AMMonday, April 6, 2015
By Peter Filichia
Every now and then, a lyric written long ago assumes a new and suddenly relevant meaning.
That happened with the 1962 TV-special Julie and Carol at Carnegie H…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 09:41PMFriday, April 3, 2015
It’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: If You Insi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:40AMIt was “The Road to the Final Four,” as CBS Sports trumpeted all month long. The National Collegiate Athletic Association’s College Basketball Tournament – more chummily known as “…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:46AMAt first it was only a few, but then more and more of you wrote in. “Aren’t you going to say anything about FISH IN THE DARK?” I answered “Well, you know what they say. If you haven�…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 01:57AMTuesday, March 31, 2015
By Peter Filichia
She was one of the most esteemed film critics of all time, but her enviable reputation didn’t stop her from getting fired.
Pauline Kael started writing for …
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:00AMFriday, March 27, 2015
Victor Hugo is very much in place, but Victor, Hugo and Laverne are gone. We’re talking about one of the fundamental changes between the 1996 animated THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME and the n…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:13PMFaithful readers will recall that a few weeks ago, I wrote about the sadness that actors endure when they say a line or sing a lyric that refers to a closing when the show is actually closin…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 02:22AMMonday, March 23, 2015
By Peter Filichia
So I celebrated Stephen Sondheim’s eighty-fifth birthday on March 22 in a way in which he wouldn’t have approved.
I played the original cast album of Do I…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 10:28PM 
