Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Me and my big mouth (or, for the grammatically conscious among us, my big mouth and I). On one of the recent podcasts I do most Sundays on Broadway Radio for Broadway Stars, the subject came…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AM[SHARE]Monday, April 4, 2011
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Well, it's April, which makes me think of Company. Not just because it opened 41 years ago this month. Not just because it has a character named April.
But also, bec…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:49PM[SHARE]Some time ago, when I heard that a show called War Horse was going to open in London. I gave out a big smile. This was the same title that my buddy Martin Erskine and I once chose for a musi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 3, 2011
The woman famous for having portrayed Reva Shayne Lewis Cooper Spaulding Lewis in "The Guiding Light" will now be playing a character with far fewer names. Kim Zimmer, the four-time Daytime …
SOURCE: NJ.com at 02:25PM[SHARE]Friday, April 1, 2011
It was the month that I ran into Dick Scanlan on Eighth Avenue and told him that I’d included him in my new book, Broadway Musicals: The Most Valuable Players, 1960-2010. Well, wouldn&…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Who pays attention to a 1945 Broadway musical with a Sigmund Romberg-Dorothy Fields score? Musicals Tonight! producer Mel Miller, that’s who. His last foray of the 2010-2011 season is …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 29, 2011
What, no mistaken identity?
That's the only element of farce that Ken Ludwig has omitted in his extraordinarily funny "The Fox on the Fairway." Fans of slamming doors and double-entendres h…
SOURCE: NJ.com at 05:16PM[SHARE]By Peter Filichia --
We can't let March go by without celebrating the anniversary of one of the greatest musicals of all time. Fifty-five years ago this month, My Fair Lady opened.
If …
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:39AM[SHARE]Monday, March 28, 2011
Every business keeps a ledger of debits and credits. Shall we count each in the current revival of How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying? Director-choreographer Rob Ashford has de…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:02AM[SHARE]Friday, March 25, 2011
March 8, 1979. My buddy Richard Norton and I are discussing the theater news of the day when he off-handedly mentions, “I hear the new musical at Playwrights Horizons is pretty good.&r…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:08AM[SHARE]Either the voice-over narrator at the beginning of The Book of Mormon is pre-recorded or he’s an actor with lousy timing. More than once, after an on-stage Mormon responded to somethin…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:08AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 22, 2011
By Peter Filichia --
How many rock musicals begin with a waltz?
All right, the song that starts Inner City will never be confused with a Strauss waltz. It's a jazz waltz, but it's in …
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:55AM[SHARE]Monday, March 21, 2011
Broadway may not be in a Golden Age, but it's certainly in a Golden Age of Drag. In that last decade, eight men who'd played at least one scene in a dress received a Tony nomination for eith…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:06AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 19, 2011
Starting Tuesday, Mary Testa will be at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, reading newspapers and solving each puzzle in them.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:38AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 16, 2011
How fitting that a production of "Spring Awakening" will arrive in New Jersey soon after spring has awakened around the state.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 12:54PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 15, 2011
By Peter Filichia
How 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 …
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:17AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 8, 2011
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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 origina…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:29AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 1, 2011
By Peter Filichia
It'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 fetching waltz…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:42AM[SHARE]Monday, February 21, 2011
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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 slept here…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:43PM[SHARE]Monday, February 14, 2011
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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 sho…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:54PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 8, 2011
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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…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 01:23AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 1, 2011
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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…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:49AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 25, 2011
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 …
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 18, 2011
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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 f…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 04:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 11, 2011
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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…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 01:05AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Nice tribute to Jerry Herman at the Kennedy Center Awards last week. While the composer-lyricist sat in a box above the action, an all-star cast performed three songs from La Cage aux Folles…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:09AM[SHARE]Monday, December 20, 2010
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Many a musical theater writer has found that following a smash hit with another is difficult if not impossible. So after Cole Porter had the biggest success of his ca…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:29PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 14, 2010
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Fifty years ago this week, Wildcat opened with one of the most beloved stars of the era: Lucille Ball. Composer Cy Coleman and lyricist Carolyn Leigh certainly gave h…
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