Tuesday, July 17, 2012
By Peter Filichia --
We’re having a heat wave in most of the country. Temperatures are hitting 110 in the shade.
Well, many of you have already inferred where this column is going: to 11…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:06AMFriday, July 13, 2012
All week long, I've been reminded of when I was a kid and my mother would come into my room. She'd immediately shriek in horror before exclaiming, "It looks like a cyclone's been in here!"
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 08:41AMThursday, July 12, 2012
You can have Dolly Parton in your next musical. Well, in a manner of speaking. Dolly won’t show up to do eight a week, but she will appear in 9 to 5 – at least in a video that comes with…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:59PMTuesday, July 10, 2012
By Peter Filichia –
So what’s your favorite Stephen Schwartz song?
Of course, we’ve got plenty from which to choose. After all, Schwartz has been one of musical theater’s most val…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:53AMFriday, July 6, 2012
I never got his last name, but I did learn that his first name was Earl. His wife's name I didn't catch. What I did discover, however, was that they'd celebrated their 50th anniversary on Ma…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 09:47AMTuesday, July 3, 2012
By Peter Filichia --
Ostriches do not hide their heads in the sand. Bulls are not enraged by the color red.
And George M. Cohan (1878-1942), despite what he wrote in “Yankee Doodle Dan…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:55AMFriday, June 29, 2012
No one keeps track of the record number of decibels that the walls of the Minskoff Theatre have endured – especially since The Lion King roared into the place six years ago. But the record…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:13PMIt was the month when we had umpteen ceremonies for theatrical awards. Given that we're living in an age of consolidation -- fewer airlines, fewer companies at which to shop -- will the day …
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 07:26AMMonday, June 25, 2012
By Peter Filichia –
Che misinformed you about Eva Peron. Your queen is indeed coming back to you, thanks to the 2012 revival cast album of Evita, now available on Masterworks Broadway.
…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:57PMI was sorry to learn that Richard Adler died on June 21. Ninety is a ripe old age, of course, but seeing another stalwart of The Golden Age of Musical Theatre leave us is never easy. What Ad…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 05:07PMSaturday, June 23, 2012
And the 1945 Pulitzer Prize in Drama goes to ...
The Glass Menagerie wasn’t the first non-musical that I saw, but it was the first one to pack a genuine wallop. I can’t say for certai…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 03:47AMThursday, June 21, 2012
If this article’s title — “The Sorry/Grateful Musical” – grabbed you, you are well within your rights to assume that it refers to COMPANY. After all, that’s the show in which…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 03:56PMTuesday, June 19, 2012
'American Stare' presents a drama about people who have few choices
SOURCE: NJ.com at 06:53AMSummertime, and the livin’ is supposed to be fun. None of the other three seasons is as associated with good times.
In honor of the impending summer, I thought I’d a…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:21AMSaturday, June 16, 2012
Usually I work the press room at the Tonys. This year, however, I decided to spend it with friends old and new at the home of Ken (Broadway Musicals: The 101 Greatest Shows of All Time) Bloo…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 07:37AMFriday, June 15, 2012
John Davidson makes quick transition from "The Fantasticks" to "La Mancha"
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:26AMThursday, June 14, 2012
Just because they didn’t applaud PARADE doesn’t mean that they didn’t like it. At the opening night performance of the 1998 musical at 4th Wall Theatre in Bloomfield, New Jersey, silen…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:07AMWednesday, June 13, 2012
News from New Jersey theater.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:18AMTuesday, June 12, 2012
Peter Filichia reviews 'Daybreak,' playing now at the Hunziker Black Box Theatre.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 05:02PMMonday, June 11, 2012
By Peter Filichia --
With the Tony Awards and Oncefresh in our minds, let’s at least once talk about a Tony-winner that isn’t always fresh in our minds: Hallelujah, Baby!
It opened on A…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:48PMSunday, June 10, 2012
Our critic hands out the awards for shows on this side on the Hudson
SOURCE: NJ.com at 03:05PMFriday, June 8, 2012
Precisely 506 months to the day after I saw the very first performance of the pre-Broadway tryout of COMPANY at the Shubert Theatre in Boston, I saw it again — at the GeVa Theatre Cent…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:44AMThis may have been my favorite Theatre World Awards ceremony since I began emceeing it in 1996.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 08:44AMPeter Filichia lets us know all about the new production.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:50AMWednesday, June 6, 2012
Mercado, who placed third in the 2008 round of "American Idol," wins audiences over in a production that plays like a folk tale set on a Caribbean island.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:30AMPeter Filichia gives us the scoop on the New Jersey theater scene
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:03AMTuesday, June 5, 2012
Cast shines in a lively and spirited production of "Henry IV, Part One."
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:00AMBy Peter Filichia --
And now, the end is near, as we approach the final curtain on our five-part series on people involved with Broadway musicals who got skunked by the Tony nominators.
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SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:57AMFriday, June 1, 2012
It was the month in which I returned to Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark. My feelings haven't changed much in the 11 months. It's still sit-through-able in Act One and an ordeal in Act Two.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 09:54PMAlumna of leading TV talent show lands big role at Paper Mill Playhouse.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:47AMThursday, May 31, 2012
Good thing that assistant stage manager Lindsay Weiner led the audience in breathing lessons before the show officially began. Our breath might have otherwise been taken away for good by all…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 01:51PM 
