Living Here Is Very Much Like Chop Suey By Peter Filichia
Given that August 29th is “National Chop Suey Day,” whom do we thank for inventing this succulent dish that has graced many a Column A and Column B? Should it be Qing Dynasty premier Li Hongzhang’s chef, who whipped it up during their visit to America in the late 1800s? A 19th century Chinese chef […]
HAL PRINCE: HE HAD SO MANY HIT SHOWS, THEY DIDN’T KNOW WHAT TO USE By Peter Filichia
Cabaret; Company; Damn Yankees; Evita; Fiddler on the Roof; Flora, the Red Menace; Follies; A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; It’s a Bird … It’s a Plane … It’s Superman; Kiss of the Spider Woman; A Little Night Music; Merrily We Roll Along; On the Twentieth Century; The Pajama Game; Parade; […]
REMEMBERING BARBARA COOK By Peter Filichia
We knew this day was coming for a while. On March 28, 2016, Barbara Cook announced – only sixteen days before she was to start performances of Barbara Cook: Then and Now at New World Stages – that she was “postponing indefinitely.” The official explanation was that finishing her memoir had taken a lot out […]
Inner City Reborn By Peter Filichia
I hope upon hope that you’re in New York City on Thursday, August 17th. If you’re not, I would urge you as strongly as Mark Bruckner commands Daisy Gamble in On a Clear Day You Can See Forever: “Take a train, steal a car, hop a freight, grab a star” – and get here. Catch […]
Show Tunes for Friendship Day By Peter Filichia
As much as I enjoy Lorelei Lee – be she played by Carol Channing on the original 1949 cast album or Megan Hilty on the 2012 Encores! recording of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes – the benign gold-digger will never convince me that “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend.” A person is. So let’s celebrate our friends […]
