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Labor Day Listens

By Peter Filichia --- So how will you spend your Labor Day? As summer is a-going out, you may have one last chance to enjoy it. Leave the work to the people in ...

Remembering Gower Champion

By Peter Filichia -- Thirty years have passed since the most famous Winter Garden incident happened. After David Merrick had heard his production of 42nd Street get ...

The Last Smash Hit Operetta

By Peter Filichia -- It was recorded in June of 1959, but stayed in print for only three years. And yet, most musical theater enthusiasts covet the recording of ...

Nightclubbin' on Broadway

By Peter Filichia -- Nightclubs are expensive and crowded and offer not-so-hot food. They were even worse when they were smoke-filled. Nevertheless, the musical ...

The Highs and Lows of Highlights Albums

By Peter Filichia -- The choice is yours: You can get a single disc that will give you a good deal of music from Ain’t Misbehavin’, Allegro, Children of Eden, Jesus ...

Guest Blog: Reflections of Theatre Going

By Ruth DeSarno The 35th anniversary of Chicago has given me an opportunity to think back and reflect on a wealth of memories. I saw Chicago at least three times ...

Say Yes to Optimism

By Peter Filichia “But perhaps the most American part of this truly American art form is its optimism. Broadway music calls us to see the best in ourselves and in ...

Guest Blog: Meeting the Phantom

By Michael Tatasciore

Victorious Regina

By Peter Filichia It’s turning out to be a good year for Lillian Hellman’s Hubbard family. This fall, The Little Foxes – the 1939 play that made them famous – is ...

Glad It’s Still Here

by Peter Filichia “Having wonderful time. Wish you were here.” That’s always been the ultimate cliché that vacationers write on their postcards to the folks back ...

Opening the Vault of Cast Recordings

By David Foil At long last, the celebrated 1958 recording of Marc Blitzstein's Regina will enter the digital era when Masterworks Broadway releases it on ...

1776: Not Just for the 4th of July

By Peter Filichia If you’re like me and my friends, you watch the film version of 1776 each 4th of July – and then follow it up by listening to the 1969 original ...

Gypsy Makes History

By Peter Filichia Extra! Extra! Hey, look at the headline! Historical news is being made! The original cast recording of Gypsy was among 25 recordings selected this ...

Promises Lands

By Peter Filichia Get the new revival cast album of Promises Promises, and you’ll be convinced that composer Burt Bacharach and lyricist Hal David were robbed on ...

The Sound of Lyric-Less Music

By Peter Filichia The upcoming revival cast album of Promises PromisesSee it here will include the marvelous instrumental known as “The Grapes of Roth." Its title ...

Happy Birthday, Charles Strouse!

by Peter Filichia Musical theater enthusiasts were saddened to hear that composer Charles Strouse was hospitalized a few weeks ago. But the worst seems to be over, ...

Guest Blog: 1956: IT WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR

By David Foil In the history of Broadway musicals, there are great years, vintage years, golden years. And then there is 1956.

That Toddlin' Town -- and Terrific Musical

by Peter Filichia Thirty-five years ago this week, Chicago opened in the era when the New York Times was still the be-all and end-all. If the Times daily critic ...

Guest Blog: I'm Nothing Without Them: Memories of Creating City of Angels with Cy Coleman and Larry Gelbart

by David Zippel It's hard to believe that it has been twenty years since City Of Angels opened on Broadway. And this month it will be twenty years since City of ...

A Tale of Two Finians

By Peter Filichia Not often does a musical run 12 performances and get a cast album. But that’s what happened to a show that RCA Victor recorded 50 years ago this ...
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