FIDDLER ON THE ROOF: LOST AND FOUND IN TRANSLATION By Peter Filichia
Manhattan theaters have played host to THE THREE SISTERS in Russian, RUGANTINO in Italian and PACIFIC OVERTURES in Japanese. So with New York City as home to more Jews than Tel Aviv has, is it any wonder of wonders that we should now have a production of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF in Yiddish? The National […]
You Might Just Want To Listen To On A Clear Day — Forever By Peter Filichia
People said it about HOUSE OF FLOWERS after it had closed, and about CANDIDE soon after it had shuttered, too. Add ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER to the list of original cast albums that makes a listener say “How could a musical with a score as rich and varied as this ever […]
THE GREATEST SONG FOR A NEW WORLD By Peter Filichia
Perhaps the situation didn’t play out this way, but I’d like to think it did. Daisy Prince meets a young songwriter named Jason Robert Brown. She hears what he has to offer, is greatly impressed with his work – but is most taken with one song: “Just One Step.” She tells him “My father has […]
Two Birdies in the Hand By Peter Filichia
The question was recently asked on Facebook. “Should I get the Broadway cast album of BYE BYE BIRDIE or the soundtrack?” Bless the poster for knowing the difference! Broadway stage musicals have cast albums; recordings from movies are soundtracks (for a film has a track of sound). And given that this week is the fifty-fifth […]
In Honor of Bob Fosse’s Ninety-First Birthday By Peter Filichia
“Was I ever eager, pushy, needy, scared, hungry, confident. I felt there was nothing I couldn’t do.” So said Bob Fosse in 1985. Considering that this was one year before he brought one new musical to Broadway – and a revival only five days later – he should have said “There’s still nothing I can’t […]
