Do you know Herb Gardner’s 1974 play THIEVES? Although it wasn’t a moneymaking hit, it did run a respectable nine months and spawned a 1977 film. It concerned one Sally Cramer, now sudde…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 01:15AMBy Peter Filichia Forty-four years ago this week, Broadway was hit by a hit that changed the course of musical theater. In the twenty years before the 1971 revival of No, No, N…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 10:29PMOne created “Mission: Impossible.” The other composed the themes to “General Hospital” and “The Marvel Super-Heroes” (meaning Captain America, The Incredible Hulk, Th…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 06:00AMWhile the musical is an inherently American art form, it hasn’t neglected other nationalities – as is proved by the 50 examples that make up this year’s Broadway University Mid-Term Ex…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 12:10AMBy Peter Filichia Had life been kinder to all of us, Gwen Verdon would still be here to celebrate her 90th birthday on January 13. Alas, we lost her 14 years ago, but at least we stil…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:46PMMay this be your favorite year. It could be if you and your theater company stage MY FAVORITE YEAR. Granted, when the musical by bookwriter Joseph Dougherty, composer Stephen Flaherty and ly…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 07:00AMWere you at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theatre on Monday night January 5? If you were, you saw my one-on-one discussion with Dame Diana Rigg. A good time was had by us, and, I daresay, those i…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 12:23AMElvis Can Still Be in the Building By Peter Filichia Eighty. Yes, eighty. That’s how old Elvis Pr…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:58PMIt’s a new year, which we’re all hoping will be the best we’ve ever had. One way to make that happen is to make good New Year’s Resolutions. And keep them. This year, don’t merely …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:22AMI didn’t get what I really wanted for Christmas. An original cast album of THE UNDERCLASSMAN.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 01:04AMBy Peter Filichia We can’t let 2014 got by without acknowledging that the year marks the eightieth anniversary of Anything Goes. I’m a little late to the party, for the Col…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 09:51AMMany friends have complained to me at the lack of lighting in the film version of Into the Woods.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 09:28AM“You saw some of it on TV. Now see all of it on stage.” That’s one way you could advertise your production of ELF during the 2015 holiday season. After all, the recent anim…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:43AMBy Peter Filichia It’s one of the most musical musical movies of all time, with many more songs than spoken lines. And yet, even with all that music and those reams of lyrics…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:01AMIn some ways, the new ANNIE movie is best of the three film adaptations. But that’s not saying much, is it? We’ll still have to wait for a faithful and wonderful film musical of the 1…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 02:13PMWhen parents come to the school where their child is enrolled, they’re usually prepared to hear bad news. What’s she done now? How badly has he behaved? Am I about to meet teachers who�…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:16AMBy Peter Filichia There was a time when Hollywood played fast and loose with Broadway musicals. Many, if not most of the songs that charmed New York were discarded in the California s…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 01:45AMIt’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: The New Reco…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00AMWhether you loved or loathed PETER PAN LIVE! on Dec. 4, you may well have been reminded of all the pleasures that the 1954 musical has to offer. As a result, you’ve decided to give the vin…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:30AMMy work station at THE STAR-LEDGER was across from the sports section. Its writers knew that I’d written a book on baseball and had seen a game at every major league park save Cincinnati, …
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 10:30AMIt’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: November’s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:11AMBy Peter Filichia Because the current revival of Chicago recently passed Cats to become the second-longest running musical in Broadway history, I decided to go back forty-one years an…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 10:22PMSo did you miss dressing up as your favorite Broadway character for Halloween? No matter – for a nominal charge, Broadway Fantasy Camp will put you in the costume of your choice any day of…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 09:26PMOf course we all wish that Adolph Green were here to celebrate his 100th birthday on Dec. 2, 2014, but we’ll have to do it for him. Green did live to be 87, until Oct. 23, 2002 — a s…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 08:00AMBy Peter Filichia Although the 1996 revival of Chicago opened to splendid reviews, did anyone at the time believe that it would become the second-longest running production in Broadwa…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 07:08AMIt’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. And Mazel Tov to Peter o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:34AMHere’s a story about “The Three B’s” that has nothing to do with Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. Instead, this trio of young men can be called The Three Little Pigs who deserve three “…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 08:00AMI needed 53 years, three months, 29 days and five hours to do it, but on Nov. 18 at 7 p.m., I sat down to see my 10,000th live stage show.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 06:47PMBy Peter Filichia You know what expression I really hate? “Guilty pleasure.” I hope you don’t know what it means – because that would show me that you’ve never…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:14PMOnce a musical is cast and its performers know what they have to do, you’ll find they’ll split up into two camps. Some will listen intently to the original cast album. Some will complete…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:24AMWould you marry one conjoined twin? While the kinkier among us might think “Hmm, this gives an exciting new meaning to menage a trois,” most of us would say “No, thank you.”
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