Friday, 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 08:11AMMonday, February 24, 2014
By Peter Filichia – Jule Styne couldn’t do it. Frank Loesser couldn’t do it. Even Richard Rodgers couldn’t do it.
But Cole Porter could.
The task in question? Seeing your final Bro…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:16PMSaturday, February 22, 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 09:00AMFriday, February 21, 2014
At the Junior Theater Festival ’14, Saturday night and all day Sunday are the best times to be in the MTI ShowSpace. After those many events in small breakout rooms, how nice to have all 4…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 02:13PMMonday, February 17, 2014
By Peter Filichia – All of us remember the time when we got interested in theater and, for the first time, we read raves for a certain show that had just opened. “Oh,” each of us recal…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:37PMThere can’t be many places in the world where an audience applauds after the speaker says, “It’s not a democracy; it’s a dictatorship.” But here at the Junior Theater Festival in A…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:17AMSaturday, February 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 07:45AMTuesday, February 11, 2014
By Peter Filichia -- Sunday, February 9, 1964. Now more than fifty years have passed, but most everyone who was then alive and beyond the age of reason remembers it well.
Up until then, whe…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 01:22AMFriday, February 7, 2014
In a way, it’s the musical theater equivalent of speed dating. You do get to see as many as eight musicals in four hours – but only in a manner of speaking. The 93 schools and academies …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:04AMTuesday, February 4, 2014
By Peter Filichia --
How many musicals that played only seven months on Broadway ever see two major Manhattan revivals and a snazzy concert version?
But as of this week, Little Me, which o…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 01:13AMMonday, January 27, 2014
By Peter Filichia --
Two hundred years ago this week, a star was born.
Edmund Kean was a journeyman actor until January 26, 1814. On that night, he played Shylock at the Drury Lane, London…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:56PMFriday, January 24, 2014
When we last left Nate Foster, we didn’t want to. Tens of thousands who read Tim Federle’s young adult novel Better Nate Than Ever immediately fell in love with the thirteen-year-old nat…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 09:23AMMonday, January 20, 2014
The most fascinating letter replicated in the recently published The Leonard Bernstein Letters isn’t one solely by Leonard Bernstein.
The undated letter – suspected by editor Nigel Sime…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:41PMFriday, January 17, 2014
Sitting in the Upper Elementary School in Moorestown, New Jersey, I’m looking forward to the audience reaction when the lights come up at a certain moment in Scene Four. The Moorestown The…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:05AMTuesday, January 14, 2014
In 1956, long before comic strip icons Superman, Charlie Brown and Annie became lead characters in Broadway musicals, there was Li’l Abner.
Al Capp’s famed comic strip about the rustic …
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 01:19AMFriday, January 10, 2014
Whenever someone has asked me the question, “If you could have as a dinner companion anyone who’s ever lived, who would it be?” my answer has always been “Thornton Wilder. I’d love…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:02AMMonday, January 6, 2014
Every now and then, I come across them.
I’m talking about the intense musical theater fans who tell me that they hate Hello, Dolly!
And yes, “hate” is the verb they gleefully use.
La…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:45PMAdults have differing opinions on politics, religion, sex, money and virtually everything else, but there’s one aspect of life on which they all agree. Time passes oh-so-swiftly and much-t…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:47AMTuesday, December 31, 2013
How often does your phone ring anymore? We all seem to communicate differently now. Go away for a week’s vacation, and you’ll probably come back to fewer than a half-dozen messages on yo…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 06:18AMMonday, December 23, 2013
Here is the jackpot question in advance.
Musically speaking, what are you doing New Year’s Eve at the party you’re hosting?
A young friend excitedly told me that he planned to take man…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:25AMFriday, December 20, 2013
You may know the song entitled “The Story of My Life” from SHREK, but do you know the musical called THE STORY OF MY LIFE? It has nothing to do with Pinocchio, Peter Pan or Papa Bear, as…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:24AM"It was one of the best times I've had in my life," said my girlfriend. She'd just got off the annual Turner Classic Movies Classic Cruise.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 07:10AMTuesday, December 17, 2013
Of all the musicals that have been nominated for Best Musical, only one has been Christmas-centric:
A Christmas Story: The Musical.
Yes, Tony-winners Annie and Rent as well as Tony-nominee…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:48AMFriday, December 13, 2013
When you mount a musical, you needn’t slavishly follow a Broadway’s production’s template. In fact, some of the best subsequent productions of musicals have varied widely from the Broa…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 09:57AMAs I write this, there are 12 days to Christmas. And if you’re one of those Christmas shoppers who is still wondering what to get your friends, relatives and colleagues, I have a few sugge…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 07:34AMTuesday, December 10, 2013
When was the last time that you really listened to The Sound of Music?
Musical theater enthusiasts tend to avoid mega-hits. We played them so much when we first came to know them, after we�…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 01:48AMFriday, December 6, 2013
Listening to the fetching LOST BROADWAY AND MORE: VOLUME 5, I was reminded of that famous expression that Jule Styne was fond of quoting: "Musicals aren't written; they’re rewritten."
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 07:03PMIt’s a long-held theory that people who are good at math are also good in music. So why not a musical about math? Many people are responsible for one aimed at the K-to-Grade Four set. It�…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 08:27AMTuesday, December 3, 2013
Did you miss A Bed and a Chair: A New York Love Affair? It was the Stephen Sondheim-Wynton Marsalis revue that played City Center a few weeks ago.
That’s all right. Not being able to make…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:09AMSunday, December 1, 2013
It was the month that SPIDER-MAN: TURN OFF THE DARK finally announced its long-anticipated closing. Considering that we don’t have access to the financial records, we'll take at face value…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 01:36PMWednesday, November 27, 2013
Even those super-intellectual students at Harvard University have been known to say on their rare off-hours “Hey, kids! Let’s put on a show!” And so, an intrepid band of undergrads got…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 09:24AM 
