ANYTHING ELSE IS A LAUGH By Peter Filichia
Many people remember the birthdays and anniversaries of friends and relatives. I do, too – but I also remember when people laugh at lyrics in musicals. Sounds crazy, no? But this occurred to me when my beloved Linda and I were at ONCE UPON A MATTRESS and her first laugh came after Marshall Barer’s slyest […]
JULIAN SCHLOSSBERG – A CAPITAL GUY By Peter Filichia
Nice press conference at Sardi’s for julian schlossberg. No, I did not make two typos when putting his name in lowercase letters. That’s the way they’re printed on the cover of his new memoir My First Book – Part Two – a follow-up to his first autobiography. In using “little letters” for his name, was […]
LEMPICKA: THE SUN HAS COME OUT FOR TAMARA BY PETER FILICHIA
I don’t wish anyone ill, but in a strange way, I was happy that someone was. In April, I was scheduled to review LEMPICKA at a Wednesday matinee. Hours before showtime, the press agent emailed to say that I’d have to attend a different performance. Eden Espinosa – the show’s title character – couldn’t perform […]
RE-INTRODUCING HELEN MORGAN BY PETER FILICHIA
Christopher S. Connelly knows how big a star Helen Morgan was during the Roaring ‘20s and beyond. But he’s now made sure that you know it, too. Connelly’s provided hundreds of eye-opening details in HELEN MORGAN: The Original Torch Singer and Ziegfeld’s Last Star. The biography proves that he’s a meticulous researcher and entertaining writer […]
THAT OTHER SOUTH PACIFIC By Peter Filichia
Frankly, I don’t think that I’d ever listened to it. But I did reach for that SOUTH PACIFIC recording as soon as I arrived home from the Goodspeed Opera House. (Not so incidentally, at the legendary Connecticut showplace, there’s an extraordinary production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic.) Are your eyebrows still as high as […]
