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By Peter Filichia — Summertime, and the livin’ is supposed to be fun. None of the other three seasons is as associated with good times. In honor of the impending summer, I thought I’d assemble a list of The Broadway Musical’s 50 Funniest Songs. Remember: sense of humor is very subjective. My former wife is […]

By Peter Filichia — With the Tony Awards® and Once fresh in our minds, let’s at least once talk about a Tony-winner that isn’t always fresh in our minds: Hallelujah, Baby! It opened on April 25, 1967 and only ran 293 performances at the Martin Beck (now the Hirschfeld). Back then, April 15 was the […]

By Peter Filichia — And now, the end is near, as we approach the final curtain on our five-part series on people involved with Broadway musicals who got skunked by the Tony nominators. Just as every entertainment awards ceremony does, we first listed the supporting actors and actresses. Then we moved on to the leading […]

By Peter Filichia — “Bring on the men,” Lucy sang in Jekyll & Hyde – at least until the song was cut out of town. Here we’ll instead bring in the men in Broadway musicals – the ones who didn’t make the cut as Best Actor in a Musical in the Tony nominators’ eyes and […]

Peter Filichia — Hats off! Here they come, those beautiful girls who did very well by their musicals. But they nevertheless didn’t receive Best Actress in a Musical Tony nominations. This list is the third of a five-part series. I’ve been acknowledging the stars or should-have-been-stars that might not have caught the eye of the […]