Saturday, 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 06:03AMTuesday, March 11, 2014
Monday, March 10, 2014
By Peter Filichia
So what can we all do on March 14th to mark the 129th anniversary of the opening of The Mikado?
Well, for one thing, we can listen to a 1960 recording of Gilbert and Sulli…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:16PMSaturday, March 8, 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 08:18AMFriday, March 7, 2014
Have you ever seen a production of LES MISERABLES in which “Empty Chairs at Empty Tables” had full chairs and no tables at all? Leave it to Aubrey Berg, the chair of the musical …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:23AMMonday, March 3, 2014
By Peter Filichia --
There I was, putting the final touches on my new book The Great Parade: The 1963-64 Broadway Season, which St. Martin’s will bring out next spring. I wanted to check a…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:48PMFriday, February 28, 2014
How long have I been attending community theater productions? Let’s put it this way: when I started, Betty White could have still given birth. And yet, here at the Bronx House, I’m seein…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 08:11AM 
