BROADWAY IS MUSEUM QUALITY By Peter Filichia
No, it doesn’t offer quite a lotta Roman terra cotta or livin’ lava from the flanks of Etna that the eponymous title character of BARNUM had promised you. However, the Museum of Broadway is of more interest to us theater fans than his establishment ever could have been. Considering how crowded this 45th Street emporium has […]
DO YOUR OWN THING By Peter Filichia
If you’re attending that musical version of TWELFTH NIGHT on December 12, you can forget about seeing Malvolio and Sir Toby Belch. When Donald Driver, Hal Hester and Danny Apolinar adapted Shakespeare’s 1601 hit, they dropped two of The Bard’s most famous comic characters. They even had the cheek to drop Sir Andrew Aguecheek, too. […]
SONDHEIM AND HE: PAUL SALSINI REMINISCES
By Peter Filichia It’s already been a year since we lost Stephen Sondheim, but now we have another way of remembering him. Paul Salsini, who founded The Sondheim Review in 1994 and kept at it for ten solid years, has now published Sondheim & Me. Think of it as The Sondheim Review’s Greatest Hits. Many […]
GREEN GREW THE FOOTNOTES ON MARY RODGERS’ SHY By Peter Filichia
So many have asked me “Have you read it?” without even naming the book. I know they mean Mary Rodgers’ SHY. Sure, I have, for I knew Mary. Although I can’t tell you the date on which I interviewed her, I know the year was 1991, for I headlined my story, “Hello, I’m Mary Rodgers.” […]
YOU’RE STILL GOOD, CHARLIE BROWN By Peter Filichia
You’re a Good Man, Michael Presser. Hail to the founder and executive director of Inside Broadway, now in its 40th year of bringing theater to kids – and kids to the theater. One of Presser’s projects is the Summer Stock, Jr. series. It has allowed kids who ranged in age from nine through 16 to […]
