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Filichia Features: Merrily Does Roll Along

By Peter Filichia on November 30, 2012

in Making Theater, Show/Author Spotlight | Tags: Filichia Features

Thirty-one years ago this week, Broadway saw the last of MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG.Granted, the then-new 1981 Stephen Sondheim musical had a hard act to follow: SWEENEY TODD, the 1979 musical (or opera, if you insist) that most everyone agrees is the ...

Filichia Features: Assassins: The World’s Most Controversial Musical

By Peter Filichia on November 23, 2012

in Making Theater, Show/Author Spotlight | Tags: Filichia Features, Lee Harvey Oswald, peter filichia Features

“Fifty years from now, they'll still be arguing about the grassy knoll, the Mafia, some Cuban crouched behind a stockade fence.”So says Lee Harvey Oswald's role model in Assassins. And as of this week, the 49th anniversary of the assassination ...

Filichia Features: To Kids Who Want Theater Careers -- and to Their Parents

By Peter Filichia on November 16, 2012

in Making Theater | Tags: Filichia Features

I’ve talked about many a musical in the last year, but now I’ll talk about a play I saw on Broadway last week: The Heiress by Ruth and Augustus Goetz.Not simply because Moisés Kaufman’s production is wonderful, or because Jessica Chastain, ...

Filichia Features: Start a Starting Here, Starting Now Production

By Peter Filichia on November 09, 2012

in Making Theater, Show/Author Spotlight | Tags: Filichia Features

At the York Theatre Company, Closer Than Ever closed last week, but after a much longer-than-ever expected run.The revival of the 1989 Richard Maltby, Jr.-David Shire revue that had opened on June 20 was originally scheduled to run merely through ...

Filichia Features: I Do! I Do! -- The Marriage Musical

By Peter Filichia on November 02, 2012

in Making Theater, Show/Author Spotlight | Tags: All MTI's Sites, Covedale Center for the Performing Arts, Filichia Features, peter filichia

While watching I DO! I DO! at the Covedale Center for the Performing Arts in Cincinnati, I thought of an advertising slogan that should be used when promoting the Tom Jones-Harvey Schmidt classic.“Marriage -- the way it used to be ... and the ...

Filichia Features: Adventure Theatre’s Big Hit

By Peter Filichia on October 26, 2012

in Making Theater, Show/Author Spotlight | Tags: Filichia Features

So can the musical version of BIG work as a TYA production?Michael J. Bobbitt, the producing artistic director of the Adventure Theatre in Glen Echo, Maryland, thought so. To be sure, he was well aware of the potential dangers of putting John ...

Filichia Features: Next To Normal Gets It Right

By Peter Filichia on October 19, 2012

in Making Theater, Show/Author Spotlight | Tags: 4th Wall Theatre, All MTI's Sites, brian yorkey, tom kitt, Filichia Features

The hearty applause started the moment after the first-act blackout. When the lights came up for intermission, however, a quick silence pervaded the NEXT TO NORMAL audience at the 4th Wall Theatre in Bloomfield, New Jersey.It’s the type of ...

Filichia Features: A Love Story That Sings

By Peter Filichia on October 12, 2012

in Making Theater, Show/Author Spotlight | Tags: Filichia Features, peter filichia, walnut street theatre

It was one of the quickest journeys from page to screen. Only 305 days after Erich Segal’s Love Story was published on Valentine’s Day, 1970, its film version debuted on Dec. 16, 1970. In between and beyond, the story of doomed Jennifer Cavilleri ...

Filichia Features: Sondheim for Two

By Peter Filichia on October 05, 2012

in Making Theater, Show/Author Spotlight | Tags: All MTI's Sites, Filichia Features, peter filichia, Stephen Sondheim

As has been the case with thousands of musicals before it, Marry Me A Little starts with an overture.Or does it?Our program tells us that this new Keen Company production with recycled Stephen Sondheim songs is a two-character musical. ...

Filichia Features: You Just Might Like You're Gonna Love Tomorrow

By Peter Filichia on September 28, 2012

in Making Theater, Show/Author Spotlight | Tags: Stephen Sondheim, Filichia Features

You’ve produced every one of the musicals that Stephen Sondheim has written. As a result, you’ve educated your audiences to know what to expect from the 20th century’s greatest musical theater composer-lyricist: the unexpected.You're Gonna ...

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