Tuesday, September 6, 2011
When you watch a video or DVD at home, do you routinely press the subtitles button? I do – and not because I have any particular hearing deficiency. I just like to see how subtitlers i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:30AM[SHARE]Well, we made it to the New Year. The worst any of our tombstones will state as our death date is 2011. Will it be the year that Perfect Crime finally dies, too? On Jan. 5, it hits its 9,700…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:30AM[SHARE]Monday, September 5, 2011
By Peter Filichia --
There are many wonderful aspects to the "40th Anniversary Celebration" of Godspell. How often is an original cast album (of the landmark 1971 off-Broadway production) o…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:47PM[SHARE]When speaking to Thomas McCormack, I suddenly thought about my favorite moment in Moss Hart’s Act One. It took place in 1929, when Hart was then a nobody who’d only written a pla…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AM[SHARE]Friday, September 2, 2011
Joe GeinertThe Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey ushers in the fall portion of its 2011 season with the Bard’s take of implacable jealousy, “Othello,†fe…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:24AM[SHARE]Here I go, helping to prove my pal Howard Gradet’s theory that the average American is destined to run into a The Wizard of Oz reference at least once every 48 hours. But how can one n…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 31, 2011
It was the month that I once again served on the ASCAP Awards Panel. We annually give out money to ambitious songwriters – be they composers and/or lyricists in the jazz, pop, hip-hop,…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AM[SHARE]Monday, August 29, 2011
By Peter Filichia
I hate to see a great cast album suffer because of a hurricane.
During the last two weeks of August, Irene became a dirty word in the northeast. But no one should take …
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:45PM[SHARE]Congratulations to Peter Alfano, Anya Toes, John Atkins, Susan Berlin, Brigadude, Ellen Dweck, Laura Frankos, Martin Geiger, John Griffin, Marc Grossberg, Brian Hesse, Cathy Jones, Jack Lech…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AM[SHARE]Friday, August 26, 2011
I’m off to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, but flying to the Beaver State means stopping in Phoenix first. With 2,500 miles or so in front of me, I’ve got to take ple…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:31PM[SHARE]Before I go to see William Inge’s 1955 hit, Bus Stop, at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, I decide to take in the pre-show noontime talk-in-the-park. I get there a few minutes before i…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:31PM[SHARE]Actually, I’m worried for the married couple who came all the way from San Francisco to Ashland, Oregon. We met two days ago, in the shuttle bus that took us from our hotel to the Oreg…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:31PM[SHARE]Liz Wisan and Alan Coates in a rehearsal of "Hannah," which opens Thursday at Premiere Stages at Kean University in Union. Anne Frank is famous today for the diary she kept, chroni…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:52AM[SHARE]Given that this is the week that Chicago passes A Chorus Line in number of performances (6,138-plus), I thought I’d see how far the Kander-Ebb-Fosse musical has come in the last 38 yea…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 24, 2011
There was a time when we would have never predicted that Cher would win one Oscar or that Sally Field would win two. And right around the time when Pete Rose seemed as if he would be a lock …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AM[SHARE]Monday, August 22, 2011
By Peter Filichia --
These days, there are some small recording companies that occasionally record cast albums for musicals that last a week or less. But paradoxically, in the Golden Age o…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:37PM[SHARE]Would you take your nine-year old to see Cat on a Hot Tin Roof? Never mind the “adult themes.” Wouldn’t you also fear that your kid would be bored, and that he’d fore…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:09AM[SHARE]Friday, August 19, 2011
Musical follows the ups and downs of a 50-year marriage
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:51AM[SHARE]You’ve undoubtedly seen the 1959 movie musical of Collette’s Gigi. You may have seen the 1949 French non-musical movie, too; then again, you may not have, for soon after its Amer…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 17, 2011
When the character that the program identifies as Laura Wingfield briskly walks into the room, you know you’re not seeing The Glass Menagerie. But the program also tells us we’ll…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Congratulations to Paul Broussard, Chris Cuddihee, Kevin Daly, Kevin Dawson, Jason Flum, Laura Frankos, John Greene, Cathy Jones, John Kaiser, Tom Lancaster, Jack Lechner, Alex Mallory, Mich…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:23AM[SHARE]Nice month, as December always is. We all take it a little easier, work shorter hours, return fewer calls and e-mails, go to more parties, and see more friends. It’s almost as if the f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:23AM[SHARE]All right, one of your holiday presents was a gift certificate for a bookstore, be it on-line or on the street. Now what’s the first book you should buy with it?
No question about it…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:23AM[SHARE]Monday, August 15, 2011
By Peter Filichia --
If you planned to see that Broadway revival of The Importance of Being Earnest, alas, it's too late. It closed on June 26 after 189 performances " which is the longest…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 10:48PM[SHARE]I’m not asking you to celebrate with me, but this month marks the 25th anniversary of my getting a CD player. Not only that, I bought the “Summer, 1986 issue” – Volum…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AM[SHARE]Friday, August 12, 2011
Jerry Dalia/Surflight TheatreCindy Williams, left, and Jo Anne Worley star as Olive and Florence, the female equivalents of Oscar and Felix, in Surflight Theatre’s production of…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:37AM[SHARE]While I watched the excellent revival of Rent, I thought a good deal about Kathy Najimy. No, she never had anything to do with Jonathan Larson’s runaway hit. But I do recall her tellin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 10, 2011
JASON MEEHANNoah Zachary in "Spring Awakening" at ReVision Theatre in Asbury Park. At any musical, people always applaud after every song. It's only polite. When they're enthusiast…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:31AM[SHARE]IAN AUGUST Whatever happened to Ian August? At the start of the new millennium, August was delivering some of the state's best performances on Jersey stages. He was terrific in "A Funny…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:36AM[SHARE]Kander and Ebb have taught us that “those little town blues are melting away.” Perhaps, but little towns have always been in the consciousness of those who have written musicals.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Samuel AllenKevin Isola as the Maniac takes over the interrogation room of the Central Police Headquarters in Milan, Italy. The second act of "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" begins at the…
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