The 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.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 09:03AMIt’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. THIS WEEK: August’s Le…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:36AMThe thought occurs to me while I’m driving to Cranford, New Jersey, to see The Theatre Project Jr.’s production of BUGSY MALONE, JR. This was minutes after I’d finished watching Alan P…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 01:56PMBy Peter Filichia Musical theater writers have many goals, but there’s one for which they always aim. Write a song that will advance the action. There are plenty of wo…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 10:56PMThey’re still talking about your wildly successful production of THE MUSIC MAN, aren’t they? Oh, that dynamic actor who played Harold Hill! Ah, that equally potent actress as Marian Paro…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:06AMIt’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. THIS WEEK: McCasland Tak…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:58AMMany of those interested in theater have had their Tony acceptance speeches ready for years if not decades. Steven Carl McCasland can match his passion for Broadway with the best of them...
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 09:20AMBy Peter Filichia If I had a chance to run into Leonard Bernstein wherever he is now, I’d ask him to forgive me. I just – for the first time ever – heard the Original Lon…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:27PMIt’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. THIS WEEK: I challenge y…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:59PMWhile I appreciate that so many people have applied to be part of the incoming class at Broadway University, I’m afraid that you’ll have to take a rigorous entrance exam to prove that yo…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 07:21PMBy Peter Filichia What a good season for Bill Russell! He’s just seen one of his musicals return to off-Broadway -- Pageant, now at the Davenport Theatre on West 45th – and come O…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:29PMIt’s an honor to bring Peter’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. THIS WEEK: A True Marx Brothers R…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:00AMWe’re always hearing how young people simply will not watch black-and-white movies. But you can’t prove that by Noah Diamond.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 07:16AMAugust is the month when kids who have been enrolled in summer theater arts programs show what they have learned in June and July. New Jersey School of the Dramatic Arts Kids on Stage! shows…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:16AMBy Peter Filichia Remember, 1776 is first and foremost an entertainment. What was not on the minds of its bookwriter Peter Stone or its composer-lyricist Sherman Edwards was 100% hist…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:27AMHere is a new article from Peter Filichia’s column on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday.’ It’s an honor to bring Peter’s column every week to our readers …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:00AMYou could, of course, do CATCH ME IF YOU CAN the way it was done on Broadway. Take Troupe 4982 from Bradford High School in Kenosha, Wisconsin, which brought its production to the Thespian F…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:32AMOn Facebook last week, an oft-made complaint cropped up again. Young theater lovers have no interest in shows that opened before they were old enough to be paying attention to theater.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 07:58AMBy Peter Filichia There are plenty of raised eyebrows at Connecticut Repertory Theatre as soon as many theatergoers hear the first note of the overture. Long-time fans of Gypsy…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 01:15AMWhere did the time go? Time to catch up on my favorite column ‘Filichia on Friday.” Here are 9 articles from ‘Mr. Prolific’-Peter Filichia from his column on Kritzerl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:01AMDoes the musical that toasted “To Life!” have any life left? Oh, yes. Almost 50 years to the day that FIDDLER ON THE ROOF began rehearsals at the Lyceum Theatre in New York, Edina (Minne…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 09:33AMIt was the month of The New York Musical Theatre Festival, which yielded a true winner in THE GIG, Douglas J. Cohen’s terrific reminder that the word “amateur” means first and foremost…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 08:44AMBy Peter Filichia Can’t you just see Elaine Stritch entering heaven, looking around, seeing all those angels in their wings and muttering “Does anyone still wear a halo?” …
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 08:20PMDid you see that someone took the trouble to put every one of the issues of BROADWAY BUNION on line? Do you remember this venerable tabloid whose motto was “All of the Rialto at your feet�…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 11:25AMSome of the Thespian Festival workshops on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus are held in modest classrooms. Not this one. The mammoth all-purpose room in the Westbrook Music Building…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:00AMBy Peter Filichia Had all gone well, a revival of Pump Boys and Dinettes would have opened on April 8, 2013. But two months to the day before the planned opening, the six produ…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 09:28PMWhat would Jesus think? Would he approve of Bill Russell? After all, Russell got his theatrical start by appearing in a passion play that dutifully and sincerely honored Jesus’ name.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 03:25PMBy Peter Filichia During his long career, Ed Ames only made two appearances on Broadway. In 1962, he took over for Jerry Orbach as Paul the puppeteer in Carnival; then in 1963, he ori…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 10:02PMIn lo these many decades I’ve been interviewing, I’ve always concluded with the same question.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 04:29AMHere’s an easy prediction to make. Theater teachers and high school drama club members who weren’t in Lincoln, Nebraska last week didn’t have nearly as good a time as those who trekked…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 02:42PMI once asked Charles Strouse if he expected that “Baby, Talk to Me” would be Bye Bye Birdie’s big hit. After all, it was the first featured song in the overture, placed and play…
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