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WELCOME TO PACIFIC OVERTURES By Peter Filichia
…stay around for a half-year? The early 1970s were Sondheim’s heyday; after COMPANY, FOLLIES and A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, enough of an audience couldn’t wait to see what he’d do…
FUNNY GIRL: WHAT A RELIEF! By Peter Filichia
…Feldshuh, portraying Fanny’s mother Rose, would win the prize. How funny she and Grimes are when expressing their fears that Fanny’s getting hired by the Ziegfeld Follies will result in…
SONDHEIM DESERVED A BETTER FINALE By Peter Filichia
…one that won the Tony.” Yes, the one that beat out FOLLIES. Don’t you want to know what Sondheim felt about that, even in 2017? We can guess that Max…
FUNNY GIRL: FUNNY LYRICS AND MORE By Peter Filichia
…the Ziegfeld Follies. In “His Love Makes Me Beautiful,” the tribute to these extravaganzas of yore, Merrill had his tenor glorify the American girl: “You are the beautiful reflection Of…
ANSWERS FOR BROADWAY GENIUSES By Peter Filichia
…hearing the first two words sung in Act One of the second one? 11A. “Hats off!” – the first words sung in FOLLIES, Sondheim’s 1971 musical – could spur Joanne,…