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By Peter FilichiaHow well I remember the early morning of Friday, March 15, 2002.I had to go out-of-town, and my friend Ken Bloom had volunteered to drive me to the airport, even though I wa…
By Peter Filichia --If you can get to the always excellent Transport Group's current production of Hello, Again, so much the better. But if you cannot, there's always the excellent orig…
By Peter FilichiaIt's been 38 years now since A Little Night Music opened and Fredrik told Desiree, “You must meet my wife.” Indeed we did, in one of Stephen Sondheim's most fetc…
By Peter Filichia --Spent Presidents Day thinking about presidents who've shown up in musicals. Recall that Lola sang, “You've seen the sign that says, ‘George Washington once sl…
By Peter Filichia -- Most long-time football fans don't realize it, but they know a song from The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. How can this be? The musical version of James Thurber's short s…
By Peter Filichia -Fifty years ago, Camelot was in the middle of its six-week reign as The #1 Record Album in the land. Not The #1 Musical Theater Record Album in the land. The #1 Record Alb…
By Peter Filichia -- So this is the week we celebrate Groundhog Day, which has taken on a new and different meaning ever since that Bill Murray movie debuted in 1993. In case you've missed i…
Once The Small World of Charity was announced in early 1965, all Broadway was looking forward to this new Bob Fosse musical that would star Gwen Verdon. But there was never anything small ab…
By Peter Filichia -- Since MasterworksBroadway and Arkiv have made concerted efforts to re-release a number of stage recordings of yore, I've found that my friends have been most looking for…
By Peter Filichia -- It's one of the worst-kept secrets of musical theater. Many a song that was written for one musical wound up dropped - but some time later wound up in another show.I'm n…
