Guest Blog: Lorrie Davis on Tom O’Horgan
In celebration of the release of Divine Hair/Mass in F, Lorrie Davis from the original Broadway cast of Hair shares some memories about the show’s director Tom O’Horgan. Lorrie Davis on Tom O’Horgan The first time I met Tom O’Horgan, I was auditioning for the original cast of the Broadway musical Hair. He was sitting […]
A Tale of Two Fiddler Songs
By Peter Filichia — As we celebrate the 47th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof this week (on Sept. 22, to be precise), let’s take a look at its most famous song — and one of its least famous songs. In 1964, when Fiddler debuted at the Imperial, Broadway was still in the era when […]
Lehman Engel 101
By Peter Filichia — We might not have had Avenue Q, A Chorus Line, Nine, Once on This Island and Ragtime and plenty of other excellent musicals without him. He was Lehman Engel, who was the musical director for thirty Broadway shows, the vocal arranger for fourteen, and the composer of incidental musical for sixteen […]
Godspell’s Discs from Stage and Screen
By Peter Filichia — There are many wonderful aspects to the “40th Anniversary Celebration” of Godspell. How often is an original cast album (of the landmark 1971 off-Broadway production) offered along with the soundtrack album (of the 1973 film version)? But here’s what might be the best aspect of this pairing of two different recordings […]
The Much Nicer Irene
By Peter Filichia — I hate to see a great cast album suffer because of a hurricane. During the last two weeks of August, “Irene” became a dirty word in the northeast. But no one should take perverse revenge by neglecting the marvelous recording of the 1973 Irene. The musical revisal featured Debbie Reynolds as […]
