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By Peter Filichia   Time does fly, does it not? Already more than one twelfth of the “new” year in gone, and now we’re already in Black History Month.   I trust that on Sunday, February 1, you started celebrating by playing Street Scene, for on this date in 1902, its librettist, Langston Hughes was […]

By Peter Filichia   While at Barnes & Noble to get Jeremy Aufderheide’s How the Wiz Was, my eye fell on Stephen Covey’s best-seller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Well, a little bit of self-help never hurt anybody, so I picked it up and skimmed. Habit One deals with “moving from dependence to […]

By Peter Filichia   Forty-four years ago this week, Broadway was hit by a hit that changed the course of musical theater.   In the twenty years before the 1971 revival of No, No, Nanette, eleven commercial musical revivals had opened on Broadway. In the twenty years following Nanette’s smash critical reception and financial success, […]

By Peter Filichia   Had life been kinder to all of us, Gwen Verdon would still be here to celebrate her 90th birthday on January 13. Alas, we lost her 14 years ago, but at least we still have her recordings as well as a film in which she recreated her first starring role in […]

  Elvis Can Still Be in the Building       By Peter Filichia       Eighty.       Yes, eighty.       That’s how old Elvis Presley would have been on Thursday, January 8, 2015.       Do the math: The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll — as Presley was […]