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06.17.13Alan Alda’s Entrance Music
“You’re the one who chose Alan Alda’s entrance music, aren’t you?” So said many people to me after I’d hosted The 69th Annual Theatre World Awards on June 3. Whenever...
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06.10.13Add Kinky Boots to the Roster of Tony-Winners
So the percentage just went from 56.92% to 57.58%. I’m talking about the number of Tony-winning Best Musicals that can be found on recordings and downloads on Masterworks Broadwa...
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06.04.13ClownAround is Around At Last
Well, here’s a reissue of a show album that many fanatically dedicated cast album collectors never owned. ClownAround was originally recorded in 1972 by RCA Victor. But was it e...
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05.27.13These Boots Are Made for Listening
In October 1983, when Cyndi Lauper’s pop career started taking off in earnest, the current Broadway musicals had music by Andrew Lloyd Webber (Cats), Jerry Herman (La Cage aux Fo...
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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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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.
