Tuesday, May 1, 2012
By Peter Filichia --
Tra-la! It's May! The lusty month, as Queen Guenevere once taught us in Camelot. When the last day of April concludes, many of us find this marvelous musical theater s…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:19AM[SHARE]Friday, April 27, 2012
So what's the first musical in which the male and female leads play guitars? You're going through your list of rock musicals, aren't you? My guess is The Sound of Music, in which both Maria …
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 10:08AM[SHARE]James Glossman directs the Tony-winning Michael Frayn play, which explores the relationship between two atomic scientists.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 09:05AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 26, 2012
As I head to the Bickford Theatre in Morris Township, New Jersey, I must confess that I'm apprehensive. Will I Do! I Do! do in 2012? After all, the Tom-Jones-Harvey Schmidt musical chronicle…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 03:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Could the average theatergoer possibly be interested in the life of Avi Hoffman? Yes.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:30AM[SHARE]But it's unfocused, and possibly offensive.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 24, 2012
By Peter Filichia --
She wrote a play called Happy Birthday, so why shouldn't we wish her one?
Granted, Anita Loos, born April 26, 1888, is no longer with us. For that matter, Happy Birth…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:22AM[SHARE]Friday, April 20, 2012
Something greatly interested me about Eric Simonson's Magic/Bird " although it wasn't the play itself.
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 10:46AM[SHARE]The stage at Hoboken's Mile Square Theatre seems to become a boxing ring.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:02AM[SHARE]The show, unfortunately, features only one actor.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 19, 2012
So when's the last time you took a good look at WORKING? The script and score for the musical that opened on Broadway more than a third-of-a-century ago keeps getting facelifts. The newest o…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 04:53PM[SHARE]It's Bev Sheehan's show, and it's a hit.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:02AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Also: Surflight Theatre's new battle
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:02AM[SHARE]Peter Filichia gives us the scoop on the new production
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:39AM[SHARE]Monday, April 16, 2012
By Peter Filichia "
Florence Henderson may be known as Carol Brady to millions upon millions, but to those of us who follow Broadway, she'll always be the leading lady of four musicals that…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 11:50PM[SHARE]Friday, April 13, 2012
How often do we get the chance to see not one, but two performers who were part of the original 1971 cast of Follies?
SOURCE: kritzerland.com at 09:25AM[SHARE]As an actor and playwright, Avi Hoffman tries to keep Jewish culture alive.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 11, 2012
The recent Paper Mill Playhouse production of DAMN YANKEES was so nice that I saw it twice. (Those in Seattle will be able to catch this production from April 21 to May 20, 2012.) That the o…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 04:14PM[SHARE]Also: Lorna Luft hosts "Center Stage Celebration."
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 10, 2012
In the Red Bank show, the singer freely owns up to three score and two years.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]By Peter Filichia --
Julie Andrews played Maria von Trapp on stage two years before she started filming The Sound of Music.
Well, at least in a manner of speaking. Andrews actually portr…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:05AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 7, 2012
Good Friday would seem to be an apt day to discuss Jesus Christ Superstar, wouldn't you say? Only minutes into the new production at the Neil Simon, director Des McAnuff displays an idea tha…
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 07:34AM[SHARE]Friday, April 6, 2012
In the musical, a successful writer and struggling actress try to make it work.
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Peter Filichia lets us know what's happening on New Jersey stages
SOURCE: NJ.com at 07:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 3, 2012
By Peter Filichia "-
Liza Minnelli certainly started off 1974 with a bang.
Not that 1973 was so bad. On March 27 of that year, Minnelli became the youngest performer to have won a Best A…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 12:13AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 31, 2012
It was the month that we had The Sixth Annual Broadway Beauty Pageant, with the immensely talented Andrew Chappelle from Mamma Mia! taking the crown. But Andrew's such a nice young man that …
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 08:13AM[SHARE]Friday, March 30, 2012
March is about to turn into April " which will remind many of us the lines that we learned in high school, college or grad school: "When April with his showers sweet with fruit the drought o…
SOURCE: Music Theatre International at 10:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Emily Mann will direct Edward Albee's "A Delicate Balance."
SOURCE: NJ.com at 08:30AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 27, 2012
By Peter Filichia "
So it was 50 years ago last week that Barbra Streisand made her first dynamic splash " when she opened on March 22, 1962 in I Can Get It for You Wholesale.
In Jerome W…
SOURCE: Masterworks Broadway at 08:28AM[SHARE]Friday, March 23, 2012
"You know why Oscar shouldn't have written that? He's never been in a whorehouse in his life."
SOURCE: Kritzerland at 11:13AM[SHARE]All parents eventually get this question from their kids: "If there's a Mother's Day and a Father's Day, when's Children's Day?" Almost always, both parents immediately answer, "Every day." …
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