What You Miss in Musical Movies
By Peter Filichia — 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 big hits from this 1950 musical – was dropped for the 1955 film and replaced with a […]
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 […]
