Friday, April 3, 2015
At first it was only a few, but then more and more of you wrote in. "Aren't you going to say anything about FISH IN THE DARK?" I answered "Well, you know what they say. If you haven't anythi…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 01:57AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 31, 2015
By Peter Filichia
She was one of the most esteemed film critics of all time, but her enviable reputation didn't stop her from getting fired.
Pauline Kael started writing for Mc…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 27, 2015
Victor Hugo is very much in place, but Victor, Hugo and Laverne are gone. We're talking about one of the fundamental changes between the 1996 animated THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME and the new…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:13PM[SHARE]Faithful readers will recall that a few weeks ago, I wrote about the sadness that actors endure when they say a line or sing a lyric that refers to a closing when the show is actually closin…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 02:22AM[SHARE]Monday, March 23, 2015
By Peter Filichia
So I celebrated Stephen Sondheim's eighty-fifth birthday on March 22 in a way in which he wouldn't have approved.
I played the original cast album of Do I Hea…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 10:28PM[SHARE]Friday, March 20, 2015
Stephen Sondheim has always loved New York, and, for the most part, Gotham has returned the love. Broadway's greatest composer-lyricist who turns 85 this week has been a New York presence si…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:03AM[SHARE]Let's give a warm twenty-first century welcome to ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 03:30AM[SHARE]Monday, March 16, 2015
By Peter Filichia
Let me spell it out for you so you won't be as disappointed as Homer and Bart Simpson were on January 4, 1998.
Simpsons pere and fils went to a video rental s…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 09:43PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 14, 2015
It’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This Week: Love…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:09AM[SHARE]Friday, March 13, 2015
When an event announces that it's "the first annual," we have to wonder if that's truth-in-advertising. Yes, every happening has to start somewhere; there was a time when there were the firs…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:26AM[SHARE]We've had theatrical pieces about show business, commerce, science, religion, prison and everything else you can think of from A(RT) to Z(ULU AND THE ZAYDA).
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 04:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 10, 2015
By Peter Filichia
Can fifty-three years have really passed since I saw my first pre-Broadway tryout?
It happened on March 10, 1962 at the Colonial Theatre in Boston where I saw I Can …
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:06AM[SHARE]Friday, March 6, 2015
The invitation for a party being held next Thursday by the Princess Cruises states "Please join us as we announce an industry-first entertainment partnership with the Oscar-winning composer …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:37AM[SHARE]Nice to see that Peter Gallagher has returned to ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY after missing a peck of performances. I was getting a little worried there that he was going to take his leave. More…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 02:44AM[SHARE]Monday, March 2, 2015
By Peter Filichia
Long before we turned our attentions to Elphaba and away from Dorothy Gale, bookwriter Sidney Michaels, composer Larry Grossman and lyricist Hal Hackady had the same…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:17PM[SHARE]Friday, February 27, 2015
Here's what I've observed about brothers and sisters. They fight like mad when they're young, but as time goes by, they start to see the other's virtues. That leads to their truly loving eac…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 09:04AM[SHARE]Well, with one of the most frigid February on records, we certainly answered Joanne's question in COMPANY in no uncertain terms. On Broadway, everybody this month indeed wore a hat.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 01:47AM[SHARE]Monday, February 23, 2015
By Peter Filichia
Now that we've celebrated February and Black History Month, let's move to March, which is Women's History Month.
Readers are encouraged to spend each day of t…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:38PM[SHARE]Friday, February 20, 2015
So, after seeing a stunning performance of A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE at New York University, I was suddenly in the company of three men of great importance. Bookwriter Terrence McNally, compose…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 03:54PM[SHARE]The only thing is that what I couldn't have imagined is that there wouldn't be a single Broadway opening during the entire month of February.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 12:08AM[SHARE]Monday, February 16, 2015
By Peter Filichia
Did you know that February 18 is National Advice Day?
Probably not. But someone decided it is.
Perhaps a musical theater lyricist invented the "holiday…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:13PM[SHARE]Friday, February 13, 2015
Audiologists tell us that we lose a little bit of our hearing, however slight, each and every time we hear a loud noise. Those who annually attend Junior Theater Festival hope this isn't tru…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:23AM[SHARE]My hat is off to Peter Alfano, Mel Atkey, AnyaToes, Susan Berlin, Tristan Blakely, Brigadude, Annie Breslin, Jon Allen Conrad, Ilene Nancy Cooper, Lorraine Ford DeMan, Andrew Duxbury, Christ…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 08:41AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 10, 2015
By Peter Filichia
Faithful readers will recall that two weeks ago I mentioned that I preferred "Together Wherever We Go" on the 1973 London Cast Album of Gypsy. Because it offers all …
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:54AM[SHARE]Friday, February 6, 2015
It’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. Time to catch up: …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:57PM[SHARE]While there's been plenty of singing and dancing at Junior Theater Festival in Atlanta, now it's time for a ton of talk. For after Saturday morning's presentations of kids performing various…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 09:02AM[SHARE]Every New Year's Day, I wish that the 1980 musical HAPPY NEW YEAR had received an original cast album. What would be a happier way to start the New Year than to hear 14 Cole Porter songs?
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 03:15AM[SHARE]Monday, February 2, 2015
By Peter Filichia
Time does fly, does it not? Already more than one twelfth of the "new" year in gone, and now we're already in Black History Month.
I trust that on Sunday, Feb…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:54PM[SHARE]Friday, January 30, 2015
The selfies have been taken, the gift shop has been perused, the impromptu dancing to "Under the Sea" has finished, and many a "Break a leg!" has been advised. Now that 8:45 a.m. is near, ev…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:15AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 29, 2015
Call it the first important sibling musical.
For the 1924 hit LADY, BE GOOD! had brothers George and Ira Gershwin collaborate on their first full score. Although the two had written a son…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 11:21PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Peter Filichia discusses Thespian Playworks, an annual playwrighting opportunity for teenagers across the nation.
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