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By Peter Filichia — October 16th marks the birthday of the star who’s achieved what no other person in the history of Broadway has. Four consecutive Tony wins as Best Actress in a Musical. This Tuesday is Angela Lansbury’s 87th birthday. That she was born in 1925 in a section of London called Poplar could […]

By Peter Filichia – Allegro has now reached senior citizen status. Sixty-five years ago this week, Rodgers and Hammerstein debuted their third stage collaboration. After their monumental success with Oklahoma! and the masterpiece status they saw conferred on Carousel (and the nice reception they got for the State Fair movie), their audience couldn’t wait to […]

By Peter Filichia– October already. Believe it or not, the year is three-quarters over. So wouldn’t this be a good time to celebrate songs written in three-quarter time? Or, as Nanette Fabray sang in Mr. President, “Let’s Go Back to the Waltz.” The musical theater apotheosis of three-quarter time, of course, occurs in A Little […]

By Peter Filichia — It’s not for you. It’s not for me. But it’s going to make a whale of a present for a lot of people -– especially young ones. It’s Broadway in a Box, and it offers twenty-five cast albums that were among the first that you bought for yourself. If you’re not […]

By Peter Filichia – Remember the 1965 film The Great Race? In it, the famous ‘20s daredevil known as The Great Leslie (Tony Curtis) is intent on getting lovely journalist Maggie DuBois (Natalie Wood) into bed. He’s got to set the perfect romantic mood, of course, so he must choose just the right music. And […]