THE REAL PAL JOEY By Peter Filichia
Granted, hearing most any song with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart is a pleasure. However, some theatergoers were disappointed to hear so many of them in the recent PAL JOEY at City Center. The reason: Rodgers and Hart’s songs from other properties were shoved into what had been a PAL JOEY […]
GET IT: WHOLESALE By Peter Filichia
Whether you’re discovering or revisiting Harold Rome’s score for I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE, you’ll have a splendid time. The 1962 musical was not his biggest hit. The revues PINS AND NEEDLES and CALL ME MISTER ran longer. Rome’s book shows, FANNY and DESTRY RIDES AGAIN, did, too. WHOLESALE played 300 performances and […]
HERE’S TO THE LADIES WHO TALKED By Peter Filichia
He’s the one who put together dozens of interviews for his previous tomes. One was called A Wonderful Guy: Conversations with the Great Men of Musical Theater. Before that, though, he provided Nothing Like a Dame: Conversations with the Great Women of Musical Theater. So, what can Eddie Shapiro do for an encore? Here’s to […]
TITANIC SAILS AGAIN By Peter Filichia
If you see the film of the Tony-winning TITANIC at your local multiplex on November 4 or 8, you may soon be asking yourself a question. Has there ever been a musical that offers more dramatic irony than the Broadway hit of the same title that opened only a few months before the film? Just […]
MERRILY AT LAST ROLLS ALONG ON BROADWAY By Peter Filichia
So where were all of you 42 years ago? MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG certainly could have used you then. All right, many of you who are reading this weren’t yet born, or you hadn’t yet reached theatergoing age. Perhaps you were living too far from New York City, between October 8 and November 28, 1981, […]
