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10.09.12Brisk, Lively, Merry and Bright: Allegro
By Peter Filichia – Allegro has now reached senior citizen status. Sixty-five years ago this week, Rodgers and Hammerstein debuted their third stage collaboration. After thei...
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10.02.12Let’s Go Back to the Waltz
By Peter Filichia-- October already. Believe it or not, the year is three-quarters over. So wouldn’t this be a good time to celebrate songs written in three-quarter time? O...
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09.24.12A Box of Broadway
By Peter Filichia -- It’s not for you. It’s not for me. But it’s going to make a whale of a present for a lot of people -– especially young ones. It’s Broadway in a ...
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09.18.12The Desert Song: The Musical Road to Morocco
By Peter Filichia – Remember the 1965 film The Great Race? In it, the famous ‘20s daredevil known as The Great Leslie (Tony Curtis) is intent on getting lovely journalist Ma...
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09.10.12A Bite of The Apple Tree
By Peter Filichia -- Two points before we get to the meat of the matter: Point One: Legendary Columbia cast album producer Goddard Lieberson hated spoken introductions to songs...
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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.
