DESPERATE MEASURES Measures Up By Peter Filichia
“These are desperate times, Mrs. Lovett, and desperate measures are called for.” So says Sweeney Todd to his soon-to-be-partner-in-culinary-crime. The times we’re now living in may or may not be desperate depending on your point-of-view, but there’s no question that in these days of musical theater, DESPERATE MEASURES is called for. Not “are” called for, but “is” called for, […]
JEROME ROBBINS’ BROADWAY Is Alive and Well By Peter Filichia
I’ve often felt bad for musical theater aficionados who were born after 1991. Ditto to the ones who only became interested in this art form after that year came and went. For I’ve assumed that if these young‘uns have the goal of seeing a production of every Tony-winning musical — and which of us does […]
Happy Birthday, Kristin Chenoweth! By Peter Filichia
I won’t tell you how old she is, but I will tell you that July 24th is Kristin Chenoweth’s birthday. An ideal way to celebrate tonight is by playing “Tonight” via the recording that she made with Hugh Panaro. It’s on A PLACE FOR US – A TRIBUTE TO 50 YEARS OF WEST SIDE STORY. […]
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF: LOST AND FOUND IN TRANSLATION By Peter Filichia
Manhattan theaters have played host to THE THREE SISTERS in Russian, RUGANTINO in Italian and PACIFIC OVERTURES in Japanese. So with New York City as home to more Jews than Tel Aviv has, is it any wonder of wonders that we should now have a production of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF in Yiddish? The National […]
You Might Just Want To Listen To On A Clear Day — Forever By Peter Filichia
People said it about HOUSE OF FLOWERS after it had closed, and about CANDIDE soon after it had shuttered, too. Add ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER to the list of original cast albums that makes a listener say “How could a musical with a score as rich and varied as this ever […]
