Friday, May 16, 2014
Jason Brantman and Fiona Santos certainly had a dilemma. Now did they have a solution? The two were looking to co-direct a musical for their Broadway Training Center of Westchester (New York…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:11AM[SHARE]Do musical theater enthusiasts really not care about sports? I'm acquainted with dozens of musical theater fans who know that runs and hits are not simply relegated to Broadway; they're part…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 10:28AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 13, 2014
By Peter Filichia
Do I hear a waltz? Of course I do. Isn't Androcles and the Lion by Richard Rodgers? And getting a song in three-quarter time is a given in any of the legendary composer's s…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 01:01AM[SHARE]Friday, May 9, 2014
Daniel Craig, Daniel Radcliffe, Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Orlando Bloom, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Toni Collette, Rachel Weisz, Mary-Louise Parker, Marisa Tomei, Debra Messing and…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 04:04PM[SHARE]So how does 9 TO 5 play with a teenage cast? We found out when Amas Musical Theatre, in conjunction with The Rosetta LeNoire Musical Theatre Academy, produced the 2009 Broadway musical versi…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:05AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 6, 2014
By Peter Filichia
"So I see they went and made a musical out of Irma La Douce."
That will be the reaction from some when they hear that Encores! is presenting Irma La Douce from May 7-11 at…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:19AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 3, 2014
Here is a new article from Peter Filichia’s column on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday.’ It’s an honor to bring Peter’s column every week to our reader…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30AM[SHARE]Friday, May 2, 2014
Off-Broadway had as busy a month as Broadway. Stephen Cole's INVENTING MARY MARTIN was there to remind us that such a great star once walked among us and, more importantly, on stage. Cole wi…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 11:12AM[SHARE]Send in both the frowns and the crowns for Tom Rowan's production of A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC at The Gallery Players in Brooklyn. If you don't know Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's 1973 Best …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:14AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 29, 2014
By Peter Filichia
I'd hate to let the month go by without acknowledging the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.
No one can be 100% certain that we should have celebrated it on April 2…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 01:14AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 26, 2014
Here is a new article from Peter Filichia’s column on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday.’ It’s an honor to bring Peter’s column every week to our reader…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:30AM[SHARE]Friday, April 25, 2014
Right now, Sir Cameron Mackintosh is readying a revival of one of his biggest hits: MISS SAIGON, which originally ran 10 years in London and just as long in New York. With all the renewed in…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:52AM[SHARE]Tuesday evening, April 8, 2014. Matthew Teague Miller, an MFA candidate in directing at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, is enjoying his cast's final dress rehearsal. Months e…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 06:58AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 22, 2014
By Peter Filichia
Last September, when I wrote about the re-release of Speaking of Love and With Love from Hollywood " two recordings made in the '50s by Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy " man…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 03:03PM[SHARE]Friday, April 18, 2014
Here is a new article from Peter Filichia’s column on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday.’ It’s an honor to bring Peter’s column every week to our reader…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:12AM[SHARE]With all the renewed interest in Moss Hart's ACT ONE " spurred by the new play written and directed by James Lapine " I re-read the memoir, as well as two Hart biographies. One, Stephen Bach…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 08:17AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 15, 2014
By Peter Filichia
"Rumson Creek" from Paint Your Wagon is a nifty little ditty, but it lasts a mere fifty seconds. Thus, at ninety-nine cents a download, you're paying two cents a second.
T…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:25AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 13, 2014
Here is a new article from Peter Filichia’s column on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday.’ It’s an honor to bring Peter’s column every week to our reader…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:44AM[SHARE]Friday, April 11, 2014
How about doing AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' as a midnight show? Of course there's nothing wrong with presenting the Tony-winning smash hit at your usual 8 p.m. start or by having matinees at 2 or 3 p.…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:21AM[SHARE]Before the excellent revival of A RAISIN IN THE SUN " and, oh, that LaTanya Richardson Jackson! " we hear over the Barrymore's sound system a long-ago radio interview with Lorraine Hansberry…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 06:27AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 8, 2014
By Peter Filichia --
Went to see Guys and Dolls in Concert at Carnegie Hall. By the time Miss Adelaide sang "A Bushel and a Peck," I once again started wondering why this song " one of the…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:29AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 5, 2014
Here is a new article from Peter Filichia’s column on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday.’ It’s an honor to bring Peter’s column every week to our reader…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:16AM[SHARE]Friday, April 4, 2014
If you have little kids, you couldn't pick a better first-ever show for them than ALADDIN. Young children love anachronisms " "They didn't have that then!" -- and this new musical almost man…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 10:36AM[SHARE]Fifty years ago this week, a musical opened on Broadway. Fifty years ago next week, that same musical closed on Broadway. After nine performances, ANYONE CAN WHISTLE called it a life. And ye…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:26AM[SHARE]Monday, March 31, 2014
By Peter Filichia
It's no April Fools' Day joke: Doris Day will celebrate a birthday on April 1. The reclusive nonagenarian hasn't graced a recording studio since 1967 or a film since 1968. …
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:22AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 30, 2014
Here is a new article from Peter Filichia’s column on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday.’ It’s an honor to bring Peter’s column every week to our reader…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:12AM[SHARE]Friday, March 28, 2014
I didn't care that there were 47 fewer actors on stage than there had been in 1957 " or that the orchestra was 75 trombones shy. Seeing THE MUSIC MAN in a modest concert version in Newark, N…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:40AM[SHARE]At some point at every show I attend, I take a look at my watch to see how much time has passed. Have more or fewer minutes gone by than I've assumed? Many times, I've wound up assuming I ha…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 08:50AM[SHARE]Monday, March 24, 2014
By Peter Filichia
All right, so Elvis Presley wasn't a Robert Goulet fan. That much could be inferred after the so-called King took out one of his many guns and assassinated a television set…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 10:45PM[SHARE]Friday, March 21, 2014
At the turn of the new century, few Broadway insiders would have believed it. Yes, this musical called URINETOWN had been produced way off-off-Broadway in the Fringe, and quite a few people …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:40AM[SHARE]So have you heard the plot of Edward Sakamoto's FISHING FOR WIVES which The Pan Asian Repertory Theatre opens on April 5?
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