Friday, December 7, 2012
Let's face it: most directors of professional or community productions of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee cast too old. They seem to ignore the fact that this competition is suppo…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 4, 2012
By Peter Filichia --
A few weeks ago, we talked about the 25-disc "Broadway in a Box" set as a holiday present for newcomers to musical theater. If that's a little too rich for your blood, …
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:55PM[SHARE]Friday, November 30, 2012
Thirty-one years ago this week, Broadway saw the last of MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG. Granted, the then-new 1981 Stephen Sondheim musical had a hard act to follow: SWEENEY TODD, the 1979 musical (…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:07AM[SHARE]It was the month that Jumbo opened at the Hippodrome (well, in 1935), that Don Juan in Hell debuted at the New Century (in 1951) and Anya opened at the Ziegfeld (in 1965).
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 08:53AM[SHARE]Monday, November 26, 2012
By Peter Filichia --
If you're quite familiar with the 1966 original Broadway cast album of Cabaret, two lyrics are going to jump out at you when you listen to the 1968 original London cas…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:13PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 25, 2012
We're all so lucky to live in an age where Ethan Mordden writes about musical theater.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 04:13AM[SHARE]Friday, November 23, 2012
"Fifty years from now, they’ll still be arguing about the grassy knoll, the Mafia, some Cuban crouched behind a stockade fence." So says Lee Harvey Oswald’s role model in ASSASSI…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 05:48PM[SHARE]Monday, November 19, 2012
By Peter Filichia --
"Judi sings her way to a hit!"
So said the critic for the London Daily Mirror on Leap Year Day, 1968. The Judi in question, as I don't have to inform any musical th…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:04PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 17, 2012
As I mentioned last week, Hurricane Sandy kept me from posting the Leftovers that I usually relate at the end of each month. Would that that were the worst thing to happen during the God-awf…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 12:04PM[SHARE]Before you know it, there'll be only 12 days to Christmas and not plenty of time to do your Christmas shopping. What to get your literate friends who still enjoy having shelves in their apar…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 12:03PM[SHARE]Friday, November 16, 2012
I've talked about many a musical in the last year, but now I'll talk about a play I saw on Broadway last week: The Heiress by Ruth and Augustus Goetz. Not simply because Moisés Kaufman's pr…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:07PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 13, 2012
By Peter Filichia --
At one point during my listening to the terrific reissue of the 1968 original London cast album of Cabaret, I suddenly thought of Gladys Troupin.
She was the pianist…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 01:12AM[SHARE]Friday, November 9, 2012
At the York Theatre Company, CLOSER THAN EVER closed last week, but after a much longer-than-ever expected run. The revival of the 1989 Richard Maltby, Jr.-David Shire revue that had opened …
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 6, 2012
As I write this, it's Wednesday and I'm in Cincinnati, far from the home and computer that I love, not to mention all my Leftover notes. I came here last Friday to see the Cincinnati Conserv…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 03:11PM[SHARE]Monday, November 5, 2012
By Peter Filichia --
When friends start discussing musical theater "charm songs" -- and believe me, in my circle, we do -- the usual masterpieces are mentioned. "Getting to Know You" from …
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:01PM[SHARE]Friday, November 2, 2012
While watching I DO! I DO! at the Covedale Center for the Performing Arts in Cincinnati, I thought of an advertising slogan that should be used when promoting the Tom Jones-Harvey Schmidt cl…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 11:30AM[SHARE]Monday, October 29, 2012
By Peter Filichia --
What a delightful surprise! Pump Boys and Dinettes is returning to Broadway next spring " 31 years after the original production's debut.
Doesn't that number of ye…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 10:01PM[SHARE]Friday, October 26, 2012
So can the musical version of BIG work as a TYA production? Michael J. Bobbitt, the producing artistic director of the Adventure Theatre in Glen Echo, Maryland, thought so. To be sure, he wa…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 01:45PM[SHARE]Just as there would have been a time that you would have never predicted that Roger Miller would win a Tony for Best Score -- or that Sally Field would take home a couple of Oscars -- you pr…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 11:55AM[SHARE]Monday, October 22, 2012
By Peter Filichia --
Although we still have a few weeks before the holidays, no time is too early to begin listening to Benj Pasek and Justin Paul's A Christmas Story.
Today, any young s…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:45PM[SHARE]Friday, October 19, 2012
The hearty applause started the moment after the first-act blackout. When the lights came up for intermission, however, a quick silence pervaded the NEXT TO NORMAL audience at the 4th Wal…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 12:49PM[SHARE]The bromide that "comedy is tragedy plus time" is certainly true of Modern Terrorism. Jon Kern's constantly funny play deals with people who want to blow up the Empire State Building. Had it…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 09:50AM[SHARE]Monday, October 15, 2012
By Peter Filichia --
October 16th marks the birthday of the star who's achieved what no other person in the history of Broadway has.
Four consecutive Tony wins as Best Actress in a Music…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:32PM[SHARE]Friday, October 12, 2012
It was one of the quickest journeys from page to screen. Only 305 days after Erich Segal's LOVE STORY was published on Valentine's Day, 1970, its film version debuted on Dec. 16, 1970. In be…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:15AM[SHARE]Something occurred to me as I was writing about Allegro for my Tuesday masterworksbroadway.com column. The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical celebrated its 65th anniversary this week, as you w…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 08:58AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 9, 2012
By Peter Filichia "
Allegro has now reached senior citizen status.
Sixty-five years ago this week, Rodgers and Hammerstein's debuted their third stage collaboration. After their monument…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:50AM[SHARE]Friday, October 5, 2012
Remember when The New York Music Theatre Festival used to take place at this time of the year? Before each production, an eager staff member would take the stage and congratulate us for opti…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 03:15PM[SHARE]As has been the case with thousands of musicals before it, MARRY ME A LITTLE starts with an overture. Or does it? Our program tells us that this new Keen Company production with recycled Ste…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 01:19PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 2, 2012
By Peter Filichia--
October already. Believe it or not, the year is three-quarters over.
So wouldn't this be a good time to celebrate songs written in three-quarter time?
Or, as Nanett…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:31AM[SHARE]Friday, September 28, 2012
You've produced every one of the musicals that Stephen Sondheim has written. As a result, you've educated your audiences to know what to expect from the 20th century's greatest musical theat…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:31AM[SHARE]It was the month that Jake Gyllenhaal made a big splash off-Broadway. Well, actually, so did his co-stars Brian F. O'Byrne, Michelle Gomez and Annie Funke in If There Is I Haven't Found It Y…
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