VERY GOOD, EDDIE SHAPIRO! By Peter Filichia
NINETEEN WONDERFUL GUYS would be a more apt title. Yet Eddie Shapiro, author of A WONDERFUL GUY, used the singular when naming his 358-page tome of “conversations with the great men of musical theater.” Actually, after you read his new book from Oxford University Press, you might up that nineteen to twenty. For Shapiro – […]
What Hammerstein Might Have Done By Peter Filichia
Mark Horowitz has been thoroughly enjoying himself. The Senior Music Specialist at the Library of Congress has been reading the letters that Oscar Hammerstein II had received and sent that suggested what his next musical should be. Although Hammerstein said no to many, other collaborators wound up writing their own musicals on the subjects. Offers […]
AND THE PASSWORD IS … SONDHEIM! By Peter Filichia
Did you miss it on Dec. 11, 1966? Whether you were busy that night or unborn, you probably did (as did I). But on this May 16 – nearly fifty-five years after it had aired for the first and only time on CBS – Buzzr let us catch up to that Sunday’s episode of the […]
GODSPELL: DAY BY DAY FOR FIFTY YEARS By Peter Filichia
He was making all of $25 a week from his first New York show. But Stephen Schwartz amassed so much more from the next one: GODSPELL, subtitled “A Musical Based upon The Gospel of St. Matthew.” No, the show that details the last seven days of Jesus Christ’s life hasn’t been around nearly as long […]
ASSASSINS THEN, ASSASSINS NOW By Peter Filichia
Did you catch that marvelous documentary that was available last month? I’m speaking of “Tell the Story: Celebrating Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s ASSASSINS” that Classic Stage Company offered on line. Check the company’s website and see if the broadcast will be made available again. If it is, grab the opportunity. If it isn’t, well, as […]
