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HEAD OVER HEELS: A Vision of Nowness and Then-ness By Peter Filichia
…the follies of love, a subject that The Go-Go’s often covered in joyous, even innocent songs. The only heavy metal on the premises is what was needed either to build…
THE SECRET GARDEN TELLS QUITE A STORY By Peter Filichia
…tells her “They’re only ghosts if someone alive holds onto them.” If FOLLIES isn’t Broadway’s most ghost-filled musical, this one must be. However, THE SECRET GARDEN doesn’t merely show ghosts…
FOUR CAST ALBUM GURUS HAVE THEIR SAY By Peter Filichia
…COMPANY and FOLLIES IN CONCERT). When Maslon asked the panelists which original cast album had initially stoked their interest, Chapin cited BYE BYE BIRDIE. “And I was so impressed that…
YOU LIE LIKE A MUSICAL By Peter Filichia
…as Mother sings in THE BAR-MITZVAH BOY, “Still not convinced.” Let’s go to two Stephen Sondheim songs (from successive musicals, no less.) If FOLLIES’ Sally Durant Plummer were at Perfect…
ROSE, I LOVE YOU By Peter Filichia
…he’s right – for Chita Rivera created her. If Roscoe, Dimitri Weismann’s major domo in FOLLIES had seen her or even heard Ms. Rivera on the original cast album, he’d…