More and more I continue to value LEGALLY BLONDE as a significant musical. Yes, significant. Not just fun: significant, with many positive messages. Granted, many originated in Amanda Brown�…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:02AMAs any NICK & NORA fan can tell you, Christine Baranski sang (albeit for a very short time), “Everybody Wants to Do a Musical.” And because everyone does, The National Alliance for Music…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 12:33AMBy Peter Filichia “There are words to which I lift my hat,” says Emily Dickinson -- well, at least the Emily Dickinson in William Luce’s one-woman play The Belle of Amherst. It�…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 09:21PMThe ads proclaimed “SHE LOVES ME in Concert,” but as we’ve all learned, “in concert” can mean many different things. Would this presentation at 4th Wall Theatre in Bloomfield, New …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 09:33AMIt was the month that the baseball’s regular season finished with Jordan Zimmermann’s pitching a no-hitter. Well, that’s the difference between sports and musical theater: OUR Zimmerma…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 08:48AMBy Peter Filichia David Foubert is an excellent king, Jessica Wortham an extraordinary queen and Katie Wieland is marvelous as the woman who succeeded her. They’re all curren…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:26AMThe most enduring song from FIDDLER ON THE ROOF is, of course, “Sunrise, Sunset.” Since late 1964, has there ever been a wedding reception, bar or bat mitzvah where it hasn’…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 08:00AMSome children wanted to grow up to be firemen; some wanted to be ballerinas. (Some of us had fathers who wished that we would want to be firemen and not ballerinas.) But no child has prob…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 02:16AMGetting to the Bottom of Nine By Peter Filichia If you're in New York -- and are a fan of Nine -- you should saunter downtown to Theatre for a New City to see a revival of Six …
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 10:20PMThe laughs were long, hard and genuine guffaws after most jokes. The applause was strong and hard after all songs. The opening night crowd couldn’t contain its enthusiasm — and had n…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:06AMLong before FLOYD COLLINS had its off-Broadway debut and BILLY ELLIOT had its Best Musical Tony-winning run, another musical had already dealt with the world of mines and mining: A TIME FOR …
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 08:35AMHappy Eighty-Ninth, Angela Lansbury! By Peter Filichia The first three words that Angela Lansbury ever sang in a Broadway musical would in time turn out to be thoroughly inaccu…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 10:09AMToo bad there isn’t a meter to measure civic pride. If there were, Mason City, Iowa – the real River City that bookwriter-composer-lyricist Meredith Willson fictionalized in his Tony-win…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 09:35AMIt’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: A CABARET Th…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:16AMBy Peter Filichia “Forty-five ways to go,” my buddy Ed Weissman wrote after he read my column inspired byWonderful Town’s song for Ruth Sherwood: “100 Easy Ways to Lose a Man.…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:11AMEleven shows in seven states in eleven days. Pretty good, if I do say so myself.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 08:09AMBy Peter Filichia In Wonderful Town, Rosalind Russell played Ruth Sherwood, a bright if not dazzlingly attractive woman who decries her bad luck with the opposite sex. (You can hear h…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 09:11PMApologies to Angela Lansbury. She hardly belongs in “Leftovers,” but yesterday I DID have the chance to interview the legend and wanted you to know about it as soon as possible.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 02:36PMBy Peter Filichia If you’re reading this on Tuesday, September 23, it’s the fiftieth anniversary of the day in 1964 that Joseph Stein, Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, Jerome Robbins,…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 06:37AMHe’d called and said he’d be a little late for the 10 a.m. rehearsal, so even when the clock struck 10:15 and Bernie Yvon hadn’t yet arrived, no one gave it much of a thoug…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 09:00AMCongratulations to Peter Alfano, Steven Bell, Susan Berlin, Pat Bracken, Scot Colford, Seth Christenfeld, Sarah Brett England, Darel Glaser, John Griffin, Cathy Jones, Tim Kraetsch, Jack Lec…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 07:19AMBy Peter Filichia "It's the little things, the little things" Elaine Stritch insisted in Company. And she was right -- little things do mean a lot. That's especially true of those lit…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 08:43PMIt’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. THIS WEEK: This MusnR…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30AMIt was an inspired notion. Ten years after Sandy Wilson had struck gold as the bookwriter, composer and lyricist of THE BOY FRIEND, he decided to revisit those “perfect young ladies from f…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 09:50AMEven a painting that’s a masterpiece looks diminished if it isn’t in the right frame. Similarly speaking, a good play or musical -- even if it’s wonderfully performed, directed and …
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 07:43AMBy Peter Filichia Last week, I used the excuse of “National Sewing Month” to introduce you to Pins and Needles. Hey, whatever it takes. The 1962 studio cast album of Pins …
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:27AMIt’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. THIS WEEK: Let Me Hear Y…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AMLiving to be 90 represents a generous life span. Most of us, if we could, would sign a contract today if we were assured we’d be able to last that long. And yet, even after we see someone …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 09:38AMI have a question to ask you, but before I do, I want to stroll down memory lane. Let's return to February 6, 1988, when I attended the nuptials of one Tony Nunzio and Tina Vitale.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 09:10AMBy Peter Filichia September is National Sewing Month, so this would seem to be as good a time as any to honor people who work with pins and needles. It’s also a good chance t…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 10:06AMThe rumor mill: I’m told that none of us should be surprised if selections from a musical we saw on TV become a one-night charity benefit at the Shubert. ‘Nuff said.
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