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 […]
DisinHAIRited — It’s a Good Thing!
by Peter Filichia 42 Years Ago this week, New York’s newspapers began sporting ads that said, “What’s a four-letter word for a great Broadway musical?” The answer, of course, was Hair. “The American Tribal Love Rock Musical” opened at the Biltmore Theatre (now the Friedman) on April 29, 1968, and didn’t leave until July 1, […]
Happy 446th, Will!
by Peter Filichia This week, we’ll be marking the 446th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare – inarguably the greatest writer the world has ever seen. And, not last and hardly least, the writer who inspired many musical theater writers. The first notable attempt was by Rodgers and Hart, who wrote The Boys from […]
Guest Blog: When Are They Going To Release… ?
By David Foil Get together a group of Broadway musical fans, bring up the subject of cast recordings, and, sooner or later, you’re going to hear an impatient question that begins with the words, “When are they going to release… ?” Meet “they” – at least as far as the Masterworks Broadway catalogue is concerned. […]
What a Bonus!
By Peter Filichia Wasn’t that Anyone Can Whistle Encores! concert last week sensational? Yes, the book once again let us down — though you have to admire that Arthur Laurents went out on a limb and wrote in a style unlike any he’d tried before or since. But, oh, that Stephen Sondheim score! Goddard Lieberson […]
