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HAROLD PRINCE: ON THE 20TH AND 21ST CENTURIES By Peter Filichia
…shows. I have seen around a hundred musicals play their out-of-town tryouts, but I can say that COMPANY, FOLLIES, A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC and PACIFIC OVERTURES – all of which…
TRAGEDY TOMORROW – HAROLD PRINCE TODAY! By Peter Filichia
…either CABARET or FOLLIES would be the one with the most songs sung that day, right? After Jason Robert Brown had conducted a thrilling overture, we suspected that it would…
THEY TOOK US TO THE WORLD OF SONDHEIM By Peter Filichia
…was the first to do it in 1985 in FOLLIES IN CONCERT. Maria Friedman’s moderately paced “Broadway Baby” brought to mind another FOLLIES IN CONCERT performance: Elaine Stritch’s. Until that…
WHAT A SURPRISE! By Peter Filichia
…(A FUNNY THING HAPPENED …), “Pleasant Little Kingdom” (FOLLIES) and “So Many People” from SATURDAY NIGHT, his first musical that at that point had gone unproduced. But also included was…
PAUL FORD TELLS ALL By Peter Filichia
…piano. He describes late twentieth-century British Invasion musicals as “Every day a little death.” You’ll understand why he insists that in any production of FOLLIES, Phyllis should not be lifted…