1,448 stories by "Peter Filichia"
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…
I didn't care that there were 47 fewer actors on stage than there had been in 1957 " or that the orchestra was 75 trombones shy. Seeing THE MUSIC MAN in a modest concert version in Newark, N…
At some point at every show I attend, I take a look at my watch to see how much time has passed. Have more or fewer minutes gone by than I've assumed? Many times, I've wound up assuming I ha…
By Peter Filichia
All right, so Elvis Presley wasn't a Robert Goulet fan. That much could be inferred after the so-called King took out one of his many guns and assassinated a television set…
At the turn of the new century, few Broadway insiders would have believed it. Yes, this musical called URINETOWN had been produced way off-off-Broadway in the Fringe, and quite a few people …
So have you heard the plot of Edward Sakamoto's FISHING FOR WIVES which The Pan Asian Repertory Theatre opens on April 5?
Last week, while writing about The Mikado, I started thinking that I, like Ko-Ko, should make a little list, too.
The Best Musicals? Too trite. The Best Cast Albums? A little better, but ho…
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…
Yes, the opening song is called "Bless This Land," but let's also bless the York Theatre Company for reminding us that TENDERLOIN is a blessedly good musical. James Morgan's troupe finished …
Hell certainly looks better than my apartment " at least in the way that Harry Feiner has designed NO EXIT for The Pearl Theatre Company. It's a sleek swank room with three lovely chaises lo…
By Peter Filichia
So what can we all do on March 14th to mark the 129th anniversary of the opening of The Mikado?
Well, for one thing, we can listen to a 1960 recording of Gilbert and Sulli…
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…
Have you ever seen a production of LES MISERABLES in which “Empty Chairs at Empty Tables” had full chairs and no tables at all? Leave it to Aubrey Berg, the chair of the musical …
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There I was, putting the final touches on my new book The Great Parade: The 1963-64 Broadway Season, which St. Martin's will bring out next spring. I wanted to check a r…
How long have I been attending community theater productions? Let's put it this way: when I started, Betty White could have still given birth. And yet, here at the Bronx House, I'm seeing so…
By Peter Filichia " Jule Styne couldn't do it. Frank Loesser couldn't do it. Even Richard Rodgers couldn't do it.
But Cole Porter could.
The task in question? Seeing your final Broadway mu…
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…
At the Junior Theater Festival '14, Saturday night and all day Sunday are the best times to be in the MTI ShowSpace. After those many events in small breakout rooms, how nice to have all 4,0…
By Peter Filichia " All of us remember the time when we got interested in theater and, for the first time, we read raves for a certain show that had just opened. "Oh," each of us recalls exc…
There can't be many places in the world where an audience applauds after the speaker says, "It's not a democracy; it's a dictatorship." But here at the Junior Theater Festival in Atlanta, th…
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…
By Peter Filichia -- Sunday, February 9, 1964. Now more than fifty years have passed, but most everyone who was then alive and beyond the age of reason remembers it well.
Up until then, whe…
In a way, it's the musical theater equivalent of speed dating. You do get to see as many as eight musicals in four hours " but only in a manner of speaking. The 93 schools and academies that…
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How many musicals that played only seven months on Broadway ever see two major Manhattan revivals and a snazzy concert version?
But as of this week, Little Me, which o…
