1,448 stories by "Peter Filichia"
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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. …
