The Analog Saga of a Reissue Producer: From “Kiss Me, Kate” to “A Chorus Line”
by Didier C. Deutsch As a reissue producer, I have worked on a lot of recordings produced with the methods that prevailed at the time they were made, but nowhere was the span of 50-odd years in recording techniques more surprising to me than in those two extremes in the Broadway cast album catalog – […]
Feeling Lusty?
by Peter Filichia “Tra La! It’s May! The Lusty Month of May!” So Julie Andrews has been singing for nearly the last half-century on the original cast album of Camelot. Well, it’s May, and if you’re inclined to be lusty, here are 20 of Broadway’s lustiest songs from musical theater characters that can identify with […]
Guest Blog: Good Things Come to Those Who Wait
By Scott Farthing During my first visit to New York City and Broadway, I saw City of Angels, the Tony®-winning Best Musical with a score by Cy Coleman and David Zippel. Thanks to the Columbia Records cassette tape, I had already fallen in love with the knockout jazz-meets-Broadway score before seeing it the summer of […]
DisinHAIRited — It’s a Good Thing!
by Peter Filichia 42 Years Ago this week, New York’s newspapers began sporting ads that said, “What’s a four-letter word for a great Broadway musical?” The answer, of course, was Hair. “The American Tribal Love Rock Musical” opened at the Biltmore Theatre (now the Friedman) on April 29, 1968, and didn’t leave until July 1, […]
Happy 446th, Will!
by Peter Filichia This week, we’ll be marking the 446th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare – inarguably the greatest writer the world has ever seen. And, not last and hardly least, the writer who inspired many musical theater writers. The first notable attempt was by Rodgers and Hart, who wrote The Boys from […]
