1,448 stories by "Peter Filichia"
How does a manual become a musical? I posed that question last Friday when I discussed a recent production of HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING. The 1961 smash hit remains the…
It was the month of the Tony Awards, of course. The flag behind ON THE TOWN's sailors sported 48 stars, but we had plenty more in attendance at Radio City Music Hall on June 7.
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: A Cl…
"The Mad Men Musical." That's a good way to advertise your upcoming production of HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING. No, the 1961-62 Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical i…
DOCTOR FAUSTUS and THE TEMPEST will never be confused with summer movies. Still, how nice that two plays that were written more than 400 years ago are back in New York as spring gives way to…
As much as I consider MISS SAIGON a near-masterpiece, I've always felt it has one problem that the authors should rethink. Needless to say, MISS SAIGON has done extraordinary well without my…
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: Hail…
It opened in Beverly, Massachusetts in 1954, long before I became aware of musical theater and prior to my learning to drive. Even after I got a license, I didn't discover The North Shore Mu…
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: Welcome…
Another season has come and gone. Bless the hits from 2014-2015 and adieu to the shows that closed faster than Seth Rudetsky talks.
If the audience at the Imperial Theater on May 19 seems younger than usual, there's good reason. It's 10:30 in the morn and students from 13 lucky New York City schools and academies will ea…
"The first thing I had to do," says Marcy Heisler, "was to find a way to get rid of all the horses." Yes, that is the problem for a bookwriter-lyricist when adapting a film in which equine b…
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: May's L…
On my recent Virgin Atlantic flight to London, I perused the in-flight entertainment, and what did I find? A film version of J.B. Priestley's 1945 play AN INSPECTOR CALLS, revived to great a…
Quite often during the month of October, I start thinking of George Cooper's poem “October's Party.” You're pardoned if you don't know it. It was the poem I chose to memorize in …
By Peter Filichia -- 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 i…
Does the musical based on The Good Fairy have a “Good Fairy” on its side?
By Peter Filichia --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 orig…
Might you indulge me in a personal story? It's Tuesday, Nov. 9, 1965 around 5 p.m., and I'm returning home from school -- but not before I stop at Harvard University's “Coop” in …
Everyone I know who got the recently released Arkiv CD of What Makes Sammy Run? has said the same thing to me: “What an overture!” Yes, it is, and for three good reasons.
By Peter Filichia --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 sl…
