FATED TO BE MATED – OR NOT? By Peter Filichia
So, how much faith do we place in numerologists and astrologers? Many of them claim that people born on four certain days of the month – the first, the 16th, the 27th and the 31st – are more likely to remain single than those born on the other dates. Can we substantiate these claims based […]
THAT LUNT AND FONTANNE MUSICAL By Peter Filichia
But no mention of KISS ME, KATE? Granted, film producer-director Stephen D.M. Smith was more interested in celebrating where Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne lived in This Place Matters! Ten Chimneys. (Yes, Ten Chimneys. Santa Claus would have no problem entering Lunt and Fontanne’s rural Wisconsin retreat.) However, while I was watching this marvelous hour-long […]
A SWEET SMELL IS COMING By Peter Filichia
Everything went quiet. This is what came to mind when the concert version of SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS was announced. It’ll play November 21-22 at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Frederick P. Rose Hall. The announcement took me back to a potent silent moment that had occurred in the 2001-02 Tony Awards’ press room. The upstairs […]
MUSICALS PUTS THEIR STAMP ON IT! By Peter Filichia
If you want to know the historical details of The Stamp Act Congress that met 260 years ago this week, Google will tell all. For our purposes, though, let’s go far afield to the Broadway-centric stamp acts that have occurred over the decades. The policy of the United States Post Office is to “generally commemorate […]
PICTURE THIS: HIRSCHFELD AND SONDHEIM By Peter Filichia
This must be a first. What other book celebrates two theater artists, each of whom has a Broadway theater named for him? The Al Hirschfeld Theatre is on 45th Street west of Broadway while The Stephen Sondheim Theatre is on 43rd Street east of Broadway. Where their legendary careers intersected through the years is the […]
