Day, Goulet, Annie, Frank and Stereo
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. Rumor has it that The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has wanted to give her an honorary Oscar, but when […]
A Twofer of Robert Goulet
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 on which he saw Goulet performing. But I’d like to think that when Elvis became trigger-happy that he wasn’t watching either […]
And Speaking of Little Lists …
By Peter Filichia 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 how about something more specific – such as The Two Dozen Best Songs Added to Musicals? Now we’re talkin’! […]
I’VE GOT A LITTLE MIKADO
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 Sullivan’s most popular work that Masterworks Broadway has again made available. What a nice way to celebrate the […]
The Reviews Are in for Bajour
By Peter Filichia — 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 review of Anyone Can Whistle, so I opened Steven Suskin’s Opening Nights on Broadway, in which he republished bits and […]
