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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…
Kern, Gershwin, Rodgers or Sondheim? By Peter Filichia
…and The Huntington Theatre Company of Boston, partly involved Gerry Brinsley, a rabid musical theatre enthusiast. How do we know he’s such a maven? That an enormous poster of FOLLIES…
LOOK OVER HERE! FOR MORE INFORMATION By Peter Filichia
…FOLLIES in Houston and Seattle. Although you may not be getting the impression that Wells and Maxene ever forgave both Patty and Weschler for their injustices, Wells insisted they did….