Friday, May 9, 2014
So how does 9 TO 5 play with a teenage cast? We found out when Amas Musical Theatre, in conjunction with The Rosetta LeNoire Musical Theatre Academy, produced the 2009 Broadway musical versi…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:05AMTuesday, May 6, 2014
By Peter Filichia
”So I see they went and made a musical out of Irma La Douce.”
That will be the reaction from some when they hear that Encores! is presenting Irma La Douce from May 7-1…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:19AMSaturday, May 3, 2014
Here 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 08:30AMFriday, May 2, 2014
Off-Broadway had as busy a month as Broadway. Stephen Cole's INVENTING MARY MARTIN was there to remind us that such a great star once walked among us and, more importantly, on stage. Cole wi…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 11:12AMSend in both the frowns and the crowns for Tom Rowan’s production of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC at The Gallery Players in Brooklyn. If you don’t know Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s 1973…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:14AMTuesday, April 29, 2014
By Peter Filichia
I’d hate to let the month go by without acknowledging the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth.
No one can be 100% certain that we should have celebrated it on Apr…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 01:14AMSaturday, April 26, 2014
Here 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 03:30AMFriday, April 25, 2014
Right now, Sir Cameron Mackintosh is readying a revival of one of his biggest hits: MISS SAIGON, which originally ran 10 years in London and just as long in New York. With all the renewed in…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:52AMTuesday evening, April 8, 2014. Matthew Teague Miller, an MFA candidate in directing at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, is enjoying his cast’s final dress rehearsal. Months…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 06:58AMTuesday, April 22, 2014
By Peter Filichia
Last September, when I wrote about the re-release of Speaking of Love and With Love from Hollywood – two recordings made in the ‘50s by Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy �…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 03:03PMFriday, April 18, 2014
Here 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 10:12AMWith all the renewed interest in Moss Hart’s ACT ONE – spurred by the new play written and directed by James Lapine – I re-read the memoir, as well as two Hart biographies. One, Stephe…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 08:17AMTuesday, April 15, 2014
By Peter Filichia
"Rumson Creek" from Paint Your Wagon is a nifty little ditty, but it lasts a mere fifty seconds. Thus, at ninety-nine cents a download, you're paying two cents a second.
T…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:25AMSunday, April 13, 2014
Here 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 08:44AMFriday, April 11, 2014
How about doing AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ as a midnight show? Of course there’s nothing wrong with presenting the Tony-winning smash hit at your usual 8 p.m. start or by having matinees at 2 o…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:21AMBefore the excellent revival of A RAISIN IN THE SUN – and, oh, that LaTanya Richardson Jackson! – we hear over the Barrymore’s sound system a long-ago radio interview with Lorraine Han…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 06:27AMTuesday, April 8, 2014
By Peter Filichia --
Went to see Guys and Dolls in Concert at Carnegie Hall. By the time Miss Adelaide sang “A Bushel and a Peck,” I once again started wondering why this song – one …
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:29AMSaturday, April 5, 2014
Here 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 01:16AMFriday, April 4, 2014
If you have little kids, you couldn’t pick a better first-ever show for them than ALADDIN. Young children love anachronisms – “They didn’t have that then!” -- and this new musical …
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 10:36AMFifty years ago this week, a musical opened on Broadway. Fifty years ago next week, that same musical closed on Broadway. After nine performances, ANYONE CAN WHISTLE called it a life. And ye…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:26AMMonday, March 31, 2014
By Peter Filichia
It’s no April Fools’ Day joke: Doris Day will celebrate a birthday on April 1. The reclusive nonagenarian hasn’t graced a recording studio since 1967 or a film since …
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:22AMSunday, March 30, 2014
Here 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 10:12AMFriday, March 28, 2014
I didn’t care that there were 47 fewer actors on stage than there had been in 1957 – or that the orchestra was 75 trombones shy. Seeing THE MUSIC MAN in a modest concert version in Newar…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:40AMAt some point at every show I attend, I take a look at my watch to see how much time has passed. Have more or fewer minutes gone by than I’ve assumed? Many times, I’ve wound up assuming …
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 08:50AMMonday, March 24, 2014
By Peter Filichia
All right, so Elvis Presley wasn't a Robert Goulet fan. That much could be inferred after the so-called King took out one of his many guns and assassinated a television set…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 10:45PMFriday, March 21, 2014
At the turn of the new century, few Broadway insiders would have believed it. Yes, this musical called URINETOWN had been produced way off-off-Broadway in the Fringe, and quite a few people …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:40AMSo have you heard the plot of Edward Sakamoto’s FISHING FOR WIVES which The Pan Asian Repertory Theatre opens on April 5?
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 08:27AMMonday, March 17, 2014
Last week, while writing about The Mikado, I started thinking that I, like Ko-Ko, should make a little list, too.
The Best Musicals? Too trite. The Best Cast Albums? A little better, but ho…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:25PMSaturday, March 15, 2014
Here 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 09:46AMFriday, March 14, 2014
Yes, the opening song is called “Bless This Land,” but let’s also bless the York Theatre Company for reminding us that TENDERLOIN is a blessedly good musical. James Morgan’s troupe f…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:32AMHell certainly looks better than my apartment – at least in the way that Harry Feiner has designed NO EXIT for The Pearl Theatre Company. It’s a sleek swank room with three lovely chaise…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 06:03AM 
