And Speaking of Little Lists …
By Peter Filichia Last week, while writing about The Mikado, I started thinking that I, like Ko-Ko, should make a little list, too. The Best Musicals? Too trite. The Best Cast Albums? A little better, but how about something more specific – such as The Two Dozen Best Songs Added to Musicals? Now we’re talkin’! […]
I’VE GOT A LITTLE MIKADO
By Peter Filichia So what can we all do on March 14th to mark the 129th anniversary of the opening of The Mikado? Well, for one thing, we can listen to a 1960 recording of Gilbert and Sullivan’s most popular work that Masterworks Broadway has again made available. What a nice way to celebrate the […]
The Reviews Are in for Bajour
By Peter Filichia — There I was, putting the final touches on my new book The Great Parade: The 1963-64 Broadway Season, which St. Martin’s will bring out next spring. I wanted to check a review of Anyone Can Whistle, so I opened Steven Suskin’s Opening Nights on Broadway, in which he republished bits and […]
Returning to the Silk Stockings District
By Peter Filichia – Jule Styne couldn’t do it. Frank Loesser couldn’t do it. Even Richard Rodgers couldn’t do it. But Cole Porter could. The task in question? Seeing your final Broadway musical become a hit both with the critics and the public. While Styne’s The Red Shoes, Loesser’s Pleasures and Palaces and Rodgers’ I […]
Yes, Virginia, There Is an Albee Play on CD
By Peter Filichia – All of us remember the time when we got interested in theater and, for the first time, we read raves for a certain show that had just opened. “Oh,” each of us recalls exclaiming, “I’ve GOT to see that!” For me, it was Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in […]
