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By Peter Filichia – We have two important anniversaries this week, both as the result of West Side Story. It’s celebrating its 54th year of never being out of the public consciousness since its Sept. 26, 1957 debut. Thus, it was 54 years ago this week that Broadway officially took notice of a performer who […]

In celebration of the release of Divine Hair/Mass in F, Lorrie Davis from the original Broadway cast of Hair shares some memories about the show’s director Tom O’Horgan. Lorrie Davis on Tom O’Horgan The first time I met Tom O’Horgan, I was auditioning for the original cast of the Broadway musical Hair. He was sitting […]

By Peter Filichia — As we celebrate the 47th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof this week (on Sept. 22, to be precise), let’s take a look at its most famous song — and one of its least famous songs. In 1964, when Fiddler debuted at the Imperial, Broadway was still in the era when […]

By Peter Filichia — We might not have had Avenue Q, A Chorus Line, Nine, Once on This Island and Ragtime and plenty of other excellent musicals without him. He was Lehman Engel, who was the musical director for thirty Broadway shows, the vocal arranger for fourteen, and the composer of incidental musical for sixteen […]

By Peter Filichia — There are many wonderful aspects to the “40th Anniversary Celebration” of Godspell. How often is an original cast album (of the landmark 1971 off-Broadway production) offered along with the soundtrack album (of the 1973 film version)? But here’s what might be the best aspect of this pairing of two different recordings […]