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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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09.02.12Have More Fun with Blondes
By Peter Filichia -- So Ivy Lynn didn’t take those pills and got to play Marilyn Monroe after all. Well, in a manner of speaking. In one of the smartest casting decisions in ...
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08.27.12Side by Side
By Peter Filichia – Congratulations to all who did so well on last week’s Ancient History Exam. WRix was the first to get the commonality of the 35 songs I listed from 35 d...
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08.21.12An Ancient History Exam
By Peter Filichia – During the dog days of summer, there’s little to do, and people tend to get a little lazy. Let’s shake things up with a quiz on ancient Broadway histor...
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08.14.12Harburg’s Happiest Musical
By Peter Filichia -- Now that the Olympic games have ended, let’s listen to the Broadway musical that starts at the end of the Olympic games. It’s true! It’s true! The co...
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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.
