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Only Twenty-Eight Years from Broadway By Peter Filichia
…months later in 1991 Coleman gave us the Tony- and Grammy-winning The Will Rogers Follies. No matter how rickety Robinson Crusoe III would have been from a lack of vitamins…
THE WOMAN WHO WROTE ABOUT WOMEN WRITING MUSICALS By Peter Filichia
…to be confused with ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY), WONDERFUL TOWN, THE WILL ROGERS FOLLIES and HALLELUJAH, BABY! Tepper also includes many details on these women’s personal lives. Fran Landesman, who…
RON FASSLER SEES THAT THE SHOW GOES ON By Peter Filichia
…was in THE WILL ROGERS FOLLIES, she required a replacement on two separate occasions that you would otherwise be hard-pressed to guess. How meticulous is our author? Sure, Fassler tells…
To Us, Drake Means Alfred Drake
…the other was Cats, which he didn’t. Max Weitzenhoffer, a producer of Song and Dance and The Will Rogers Follies among plenty of others, says that when Cameron Mackintosh was…
MAY SCHMIGADOON RUN FOR 100 YEARS! By Peter Filichia
…first show (ON THE TOWN) to their last (THE WILL ROGERS FOLLIES), wrote a marvelous parody of those show songs that celebrate food, glorious food ( a la “Toot Sweets”…