WHAT A DELICIOUS SALAD DAYS! By Peter Filichia
How did you mark both the birth date and death date of one William Shakespeare – the 452nd anniversary of the former and the 400th of the latter? Did you play The Boys from Syracuse (based on The Comedy of Errors)? West Side Story (inspired by Romeo and Juliet)? Your Own Thing? (a loose adaptation […]
It’s Superman – Meaning Bob Holiday By Peter Filichia
We’ve seen books that celebrate the making of Annie, The Producers, Hairspray and No, No, Nanette – but did you know that there’s also one on It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Superman? Indeed, in 2003, Bob Holiday and Chuck Harter wrote Superman on Broadway. The former of the two certainly knew the territory, […]
My Essential Stephen Sondheim: Disc Two By Peter Filichia
If you’ve been following me the last three Tuesdays, then you know I’ve been dealing with the new (and excellent) two-CD retrospective The Essential Stephen Sondheim that Masterworks Broadway recently issued. As I stated last week, the powers-that-be did a fine job in culling two-and-a-half-dozen Sondheim cuts from cast albums and other sources. Still, I […]
My Essential Stephen Sondheim: Disc One By Peter Filichia
As I mentioned two Tuesdays ago, I can only imagine the anguish of those Sony executives who chose the thirty selections for the new two-CD retrospective The Essential Stephen Sondheim. True, the job had to be done, but how could they possibly choose so few and ignore so many others? I’m not saying that the […]
Let’s Keep Celebrating Sondheim’s Eighty-Sixth Birthday By Peter Filichia
When Stephen Sondheim was growing up, “eighty-six” was a popular expression that meant “to throw out or get rid of.” Well, although Stephen Sondheim recently turned eighty-six, we here at Masterworks Broadway certainly aren’t interested in throwing out any of his work. But we ARE throwing some Sondheim your way in a nice two-disc collection […]
