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By Peter Filichia – Here’s a Broadway trivia question that’s not easy to answer. What musical opened on a holiday that celebrates a person mentioned in one of its songs? No, no musical that opened on St. Valentine’s Day cites that saint. No musical that opened on St. Patrick’s Day mentions him, either. But Columbus […]

By Peter Filichia — Never mind that 36 years have already gone by since A Chorus Line opened on Broadway. What’s really astonishing is that five years have already passed since the revival of A Chorus Line opened on Oct. 5, 2006. Each of the two productions yielded a cast album. But A Chorus Line […]

By Peter Filichia – We have two important anniversaries this week, both as the result of West Side Story. It’s celebrating its 54th year of never being out of the public consciousness since its Sept. 26, 1957 debut. Thus, it was 54 years ago this week that Broadway officially took notice of a performer who […]

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 […]

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 […]