1,448 stories by "Peter Filichia"
By Peter Filichia
There was a time when Hollywood played fast and loose with Broadway musicals. Many, if not most of the songs that charmed New York were discarded in the California s…
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: The …
Whether you loved or loathed PETER PAN LIVE! on Dec. 4, you may well have been reminded of all the pleasures that the 1954 musical has to offer. As a result, you've decided to give the vinta…
My work station at THE STAR-LEDGER was across from the sports section. Its writers knew that I'd written a book on baseball and had seen a game at every major league park save Cincinnati, so…
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: Nove…
By Peter Filichia
Because the current revival of Chicago recently passed Cats to become the second-longest running musical in Broadway history, I decided to go back forty-one years an…
So did you miss dressing up as your favorite Broadway character for Halloween? No matter " for a nominal charge, Broadway Fantasy Camp will put you in the costume of your choice any day of t…
Of course we all wish that Adolph Green were here to celebrate his 100th birthday on Dec. 2, 2014, but we'll have to do it for him. Green did live to be 87, until Oct. 23, 2002 — a sad…
By Peter Filichia
Although the 1996 revival of Chicago opened to splendid reviews, did anyone at the time believe that it would become the second-longest running production in Broadwa…
It’s an honor to bring Peter Filichia’s column every week on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday’ to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. And Mazel Tov to P…
Here's a story about "The Three B's" that has nothing to do with Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. Instead, this trio of young men can be called The Three Little Pigs who deserve three "F's" for t…
I needed 53 years, three months, 29 days and five hours to do it, but on Nov. 18 at 7 p.m., I sat down to see my 10,000th live stage show.
By Peter Filichia
You know what expression I really hate?
"Guilty pleasure."
I hope you don't know what it means " because that would show me that you've never used it.
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Once a musical is cast and its performers know what they have to do, you'll find they'll split up into two camps. Some will listen intently to the original cast album. Some will completely a…
Would you marry one conjoined twin?
While the kinkier among us might think "Hmm, this gives an exciting new meaning to menage a trois," most of us would say "No, thank you."
By Peter Filichia
A speak-singing leading man and a lilting soprano leading lady play characters who meet in London in the early 20th century. He's the one with pedigree while she's t…
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 :…
You're the drama director at an all-boys' school who's looking for a musical that requires far more young men than young women. Oh, a show with a few female roles is fine, for you can borrow…
Some children wanted to grow up to be firemen; some wanted to be ballerinas. (Some of us had fathers who wished that we would want to be firemen and not ballerinas.)
But no child has prob…
By Peter Filichia
See the current revival of On the Town on Broadway, and you'll hear three sailors proclaim "New York, New York -- a helluva town."
See the 1949 film version a…
More and more I continue to value LEGALLY BLONDE as a significant musical. Yes, significant. Not just fun: significant, with many positive messages. Granted, many originated in Amanda Brown'…
As any NICK & NORA fan can tell you, Christine Baranski sang (albeit for a very short time), "Everybody Wants to Do a Musical." And because everyone does, The National Alliance for Musical T…
By Peter Filichia
"There are words to which I lift my hat," says Emily Dickinson -- well, at least the Emily Dickinson in William Luce's one-woman play The Belle of Amherst. It's now …
The ads proclaimed "SHE LOVES ME in Concert," but as we've all learned, "in concert" can mean many different things. Would this presentation at 4th Wall Theatre in Bloomfield, New Jersey off…
It was the month that the baseball's regular season finished with Jordan Zimmermann's pitching a no-hitter. Well, that's the difference between sports and musical theater: OUR Zimmermann had…
