If at First You Don’t Succeed on Broadway …
by Peter Filichia Forty-five years ago this week, a composer-lyricist team new to Broadway were terribly worried. The previous Tuesday, their musical had opened to decidedly mixed reviews. Their score was said not to “have zing” (Chapman, News) and that it didn’t “ring much” (Kerr, Herald-Tribune). While Taubman in the Times said, “The songs provide […]
Recovering the Original
by Peter Filichia That the original cast album of Peter Pan was reissued last week was cause for celebration for those who missed the Mary Martin vehicle the first time around. But for most collectors, the most delicious words associated with the reissue were “Cover has been changed to reflect the original 1954 LP cover.” […]
The Analog Saga of a Reissue Producer: From “Kiss Me, Kate” to “A Chorus Line”
by Didier C. Deutsch As a reissue producer, I have worked on a lot of recordings produced with the methods that prevailed at the time they were made, but nowhere was the span of 50-odd years in recording techniques more surprising to me than in those two extremes in the Broadway cast album catalog – […]
Feeling Lusty?
by Peter Filichia “Tra La! It’s May! The Lusty Month of May!” So Julie Andrews has been singing for nearly the last half-century on the original cast album of Camelot. Well, it’s May, and if you’re inclined to be lusty, here are 20 of Broadway’s lustiest songs from musical theater characters that can identify with […]
Guest Blog: Good Things Come to Those Who Wait
By Scott Farthing During my first visit to New York City and Broadway, I saw City of Angels, the Tony®-winning Best Musical with a score by Cy Coleman and David Zippel. Thanks to the Columbia Records cassette tape, I had already fallen in love with the knockout jazz-meets-Broadway score before seeing it the summer of […]
