Pro and Comden
By Peter Filichia — I’ll never forget the day I was at a big musical theater exhibit at the Lincoln Center Library of the Performing Arts. To enhance our experience, the sound system was playing selections from original cast albums. As the music swelled near song’s end of “Make Our Garden Grow” from Candide, I […]
Putting On Your Toes on Your Radar
By Peter Filichia It opened on April 11, 1936, and MasterworksBroadway is celebrating its 75th anniversary in style. It’s made the first-ever recording of On Your Toes again available. On Your Toes is the story of the son of vaudevillians who goes into teaching instead of performing. But he inadvertently gets involved with gangsters who […]
An Ode to Annie’s Lyricist
By Peter Filichia — I know, I know. You’ve OD’d on Annie. In fact, you OD’d on it long ago. That’s what happens when a musical becomes a smash hit and never for a second leaves the public consciousness. As you’re reading this, someone is now either rehearsing or performing the show somewhere in the […]
Musical Theater’s M.V.C.
By Peter Filichia — All right, it may not be the most significant anniversary in theatrical history. But for the record, 14 years ago this week – on April 16, 1997 — David Ives’s new play The Red Address opened at Second Stage Theatre. In case you missed it (it only ran 38 performances) or […]
Those April Showers …
By Peter Filichia — Well, it’s April, which makes me think of Company. Not just because it opened 41 years ago this month. Not just because it has a character named April. But also, because in “Getting Married Today,” rain makes its presence known. And is there any month that we associate with rain more […]
