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05.20.13Me on Me and Juliet
We’re about to mark the 60th anniversary of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s most obscure musical. True, Me and Juliet endured the longest of their three least-successful shows. The ...
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05.13.13Making Liza Doolittle Day Plans
“Next week, on the twentieth of May, I proclaim Liza Doolittle Day!” So sings Eliza Doolittle in her fantasy number “Just You Wait” in My Fair Lady. It’s a line that has...
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05.06.13Elephant Steps in Time
You’ve heard it said about your town or one nearby. “If you don’t like the weather here, wait five minutes, and it’ll change.” The same standard can apply to Stanley S...
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04.30.13Lady in the Dark: The Ultimate Play with Music
One of the seminal recordings of the 1960s is now with us again via digital download:the first studio cast album of Lady in the Dark. Until 1963, musical theater enthusiasts who...
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04.22.13The World’s Most Misunderstood Cast Album
So you think that the first "so-bad-it's-good" musical was The Rocky Horror Show? A case can be made for a very different property: Say, Darling. Truth to tell, Say, Darling was ...
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Peter Filichia is the theater critic emeritus for the Star-Ledger in Newark, New Jersey and News 12 New Jersey. He is a columnist each Friday for www.mtishows.com and www.kritzerland.com. Filichia is the author of Let's Put on a Musical, now in its third printing; Broadway Musicals: The Biggest Hit of the Season / The Biggest Flop of the Season and Broadway Musical MVPs 1960-2010: The Most Valuable Players of the Last 50 Seasons. His new book, Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks will be published in May, 2013 by St. Martin’s Press. He has been a columnist for Playbill, Theater.com, Theatermania and Theater Week. Before joining the Theatre World Awards in 1996 as host and head of the selection committee, Filichia served four terms as president of the Drama Desk. He has served on an assessment panel for the National Endowment for the Arts, and is currently critic-in-residence for the University of Cincinnati-Conservatory of Music and the musical theater judge for the ASCAP Awards program.
