PURLIE’S BACK AND RAHWAY’S GOT IT By Peter Filichia
It was heard so many times last season as people were leaving the revival of PURLIE VICTORIOUS. “Now I’d like to see the musical version!” And now they can. PURLIE, the 1970 musical adapted from Ossie Davis’ 1961 play, will run March 6-23 at the American Theater Group in Rahway, New Jersey. This comes courtesy […]
MANY KINDS OF KIND SONGS By Peter Filichia
Why must there be an expiration date on something so important? February 10th through the 16th is the official “Random Acts of Kindness Week.” But why stop there, when we could have a “Random Acts of Kindness Month, Year, Decade, Century and Millennium”? And why limit it to “Kindness”? There are plenty of synonyms that […]
REMEMBERING REDHEAD By Peter Filichia
Let’s take a look at the first 10 years of Best Musical Tony winners and see how many Broadway revivals they’ve had: All right, KISMET is a bit of a cheat, for when it was returned in 1978, it was retitled TIMBUKTU. But, despite the title change, it was pretty much business (and KISMET) as […]
THE GROUNDHOG DAY GROUPIE By Peter Filichia
That lyric from FOLLIES – “Thank-you-for-the-present-but-what’s-wrong-with-it-stuff?” – will never be heard in the home of Cheryl Solimini and Martin Farawell. For Cheryl’s birthday in 2017, Martin bought two tickets to GROUNDHOG DAY: THE MUSICAL. Both had seen the original film and liked it. However, since 2009, they had been great fans of songwriter Tim Minchin’s […]
PLAYNG THE PALACE By Peter Filichia
Stewart F. Lane will bring back memories to many, as well as important history to others. His It Happened at the Palace is a coffee table book that will keep you up even if you don’t drink any coffee. Lane is celebrating the theater that he’s co-owned since 1980 – nearly seven decades after it […]
