Friday, November 16, 2012
I’ve talked about many a musical in the last year, but now I’ll talk about a play I saw on Broadway last week: The Heiress by Ruth and Augustus Goetz. Not simply because Moisés Kaufman�…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:07PMTuesday, November 13, 2012
By Peter Filichia --
At one point during my listening to the terrific reissue of the 1968 original London cast album of Cabaret, I suddenly thought of Gladys Troupin.
She was the pianist…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 01:12AMFriday, November 9, 2012
At the York Theatre Company, CLOSER THAN EVER closed last week, but after a much longer-than-ever expected run. The revival of the 1989 Richard Maltby, Jr.-David Shire revue that had opened …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:03PMTuesday, November 6, 2012
As I write this, it's Wednesday and I'm in Cincinnati, far from the home and computer that I love, not to mention all my Leftover notes. I came here last Friday to see the Cincinnati Conserv…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 03:11PMMonday, November 5, 2012
By Peter Filichia --
When friends start discussing musical theater "charm songs" -- and believe me, in my circle, we do -- the usual masterpieces are mentioned. "Getting to Know You" from …
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:01PMFriday, November 2, 2012
While watching I DO! I DO! at the Covedale Center for the Performing Arts in Cincinnati, I thought of an advertising slogan that should be used when promoting the Tom Jones-Harvey Schmidt cl…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:30AMMonday, October 29, 2012
By Peter Filichia --
What a delightful surprise! Pump Boys and Dinettes is returning to Broadway next spring – 31 years after the original production’s debut.
Doesn’t that number…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 10:01PMFriday, October 26, 2012
So can the musical version of BIG work as a TYA production? Michael J. Bobbitt, the producing artistic director of the Adventure Theatre in Glen Echo, Maryland, thought so. To be sure, he wa…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 01:45PMJust as there would have been a time that you would have never predicted that Roger Miller would win a Tony for Best Score -- or that Sally Field would take home a couple of Oscars -- you pr…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 11:55AMMonday, October 22, 2012
By Peter Filichia --
Although we still have a few weeks before the holidays, no time is too early to begin listening to Benj Pasek and Justin Paul’s A Christmas Story.
Today, any young…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:45PMFriday, October 19, 2012
The hearty applause started the moment after the first-act blackout. When the lights came up for intermission, however, a quick silence pervaded the NEXT TO NORMAL audience at the 4th Wall …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:49PMThe bromide that "comedy is tragedy plus time" is certainly true of Modern Terrorism. Jon Kern's constantly funny play deals with people who want to blow up the Empire State Building. Had it…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 09:50AMMonday, October 15, 2012
By Peter Filichia --
October 16th marks the birthday of the star who’s achieved what no other person in the history of Broadway has.
Four consecutive Tony wins as Best Actress in a Mus…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:32PMFriday, October 12, 2012
It was one of the quickest journeys from page to screen. Only 305 days after Erich Segal’s LOVE STORY was published on Valentine’s Day, 1970, its film version debuted on Dec. 16, 1970. I…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:15AMSomething occurred to me as I was writing about Allegro for my Tuesday masterworksbroadway.com column. The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical celebrated its 65th anniversary this week, as you w…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 08:58AMTuesday, October 9, 2012
By Peter Filichia –
Allegro has now reached senior citizen status.
Sixty-five years ago this week, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s debuted their third stage collaboration. After their monu…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:50AMFriday, October 5, 2012
Remember when The New York Music Theatre Festival used to take place at this time of the year? Before each production, an eager staff member would take the stage and congratulate us for opti…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 03:15PMAs has been the case with thousands of musicals before it, MARRY ME A LITTLE starts with an overture. Or does it? Our program tells us that this new Keen Company production with recycled Ste…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 01:19PMTuesday, October 2, 2012
By Peter Filichia--
October already. Believe it or not, the year is three-quarters over.
So wouldn’t this be a good time to celebrate songs written in three-quarter time?
Or, as Nane…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:31AMFriday, September 28, 2012
You’ve produced every one of the musicals that Stephen Sondheim has written. As a result, you’ve educated your audiences to know what to expect from the 20th century’s greatest musical…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:31AMIt was the month that Jake Gyllenhaal made a big splash off-Broadway. Well, actually, so did his co-stars Brian F. O'Byrne, Michelle Gomez and Annie Funke in If There Is I Haven't Found It Y…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 10:25AMMonday, September 24, 2012
By Peter Filichia --
It’s not for you. It’s not for me.
But it’s going to make a whale of a present for a lot of people -– especially young ones.
It’s Broadway in a Box, and i…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:30PMFriday, September 21, 2012
"I can't tell you how many times I tried to make David Burns laugh." So says Jim Brochu, who knew Burns for the last 10 years of his life -- until the actor suddenly died during the Philadel…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 12:07PMSeeing The Music Man at the Bergen County Players last week reminded me of the previous time that I’d seen The Music Man. That happened in September as well. And although I’ve since witn…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:21AMTuesday, September 18, 2012
By Peter Filichia –
Remember the 1965 film The Great Race?
In it, the famous ‘20s daredevil known as The Great Leslie (Tony Curtis) is intent on getting lovely journalist Maggie DuBoi…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:19AMFriday, September 14, 2012
What Rob McClure really deserves is Chaplin, the 1983 musical which Anthony Newley co-wrote and headlined.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 11:25AMWhat’s the most famous story concerning THE MUSIC MAN? That it beat WEST SIDE STORY for the Best Musical Tony? That it made an A-grade star of B-level movie performer Robert Preston? Or is…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:49AMMonday, September 10, 2012
By Peter Filichia --
Two points before we get to the meat of the matter:
Point One: Legendary Columbia cast album producer Goddard Lieberson hated spoken introductions to songs. He belie…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:31PMFriday, September 7, 2012
Congratulations to Fred Abramowitz, Peter Alfano, Anya Toes, Susan Berlin, Jonathan Billig, Brigadude, Seth Christenfeld, Ellen Dweck, Wilbur Fineberg, Laura Frankos, Ingrid Gammerman, John …
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 02:20PMSeveral years ago, you had a little redheaded girl in your theater company who had the spunk and talent to play Annie. Now she’s all grown up – with even more spunk and talent. You&#…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 09:24AMSunday, September 2, 2012
By Peter Filichia --
So Ivy Lynn didn’t take those pills and got to play Marilyn Monroe after all.
Well, in a manner of speaking. In one of the smartest casting decisions in recent yea…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 01:13PM 
