A Year of Sondheim Milestones

We'd like to propose a toast to these six Sondheim titles!

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License The Prince of Egypt!

The epic musical adapted from the beloved DreamWorks Animation film is available for your stage.

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MTI Acquires & Juliet, The Larger Than Life Musical!

Audiences "Can't Stop The Feeling" with this high-energy hit!

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Tell Yourself How Lucky You Are: SEUSSICAL at the 14th Street Y

By Peter Filichia on May 18, 2012

in Making Theater, Show/Author Spotlight | Tags: Filichia Features

Sometimes you can tell you’re going to have a good time at a show just from the set. In front of us on the second floor of the 14th Street Y is a sunny-looking playground. Center stage is a small slide, and surrounding it are bald automobile tires ...

Filichia Features: How to Succeed with Students by Really Trying

By Peter Filichia on May 11, 2012

in Making Theater, Show/Author Spotlight | Tags: Filichia Features

No last row of the second balcony for these kids.The students in the Shubert Foundation/MTI Broadway Junior/New York City Department of Education program get first-class seats. At a Wednesday matinee of How to Succeed in Business without Really ...

Filichia Features: The Fantastic Musical

By Peter Filichia on May 04, 2012

in Making Theater, Show/Author Spotlight | Tags: Filichia Features

Sports fans mark May 3 as the day Joltin’ Joe Di Maggio (and future Mr. Marilyn Monroe) made his major league debut with the New York Yankees in 1936. Historians will tell you that May 3 was the day that Washington, D.C. became incorporated as a ...

Filichia Features: Reflections on The Last Five Years

By Peter Filichia on May 01, 2012

in Making Theater, Show/Author Spotlight | Tags: Filichia Features

Last week, we talked about I Do! I Do! – a sweet musical about a marriage that lasted 50 years.But Michael and Agnes were married circa 1900 – more than 100 years ago. I Do! I Do! opened in 1966 – almost 50 years ago. Both of those eras saw ...

Filichia Features: I DO! I DO!

By Peter Filichia on April 26, 2012

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As I head to the Bickford Theatre in Morris Township, New Jersey, I must confess that I’m apprehensive.Will I Do! I Do! do in 2012?After all, the Tom-Jones-Harvey Schmidt musical chronicles a marriage that runs roughly from 1900 to 1950. Now ...

Filichia's Features: Working

By Peter Filichia on April 19, 2012

in Making Theater, Show/Author Spotlight | Tags: Filichia Features

So when’s the last time you took a good look at WORKING?spy mobile phone with gps trackingThe script and score for the musical that opened on Broadway more than a third-of-a-century ago keeps getting facelifts.The newest one was unveiled last ...

Filichia's Features: Damn Yankees for All Time!

By Peter Filichia on April 11, 2012

in Making Theater, Show/Author Spotlight | Tags: Damn Yankees, Filichia Features

The recent Paper Mill Playhouse production of Damn Yankees was so nice that I saw it twice. (Those in Seattle will be able to catch this production from April 21 to May 20, 2012.)That the original script was used – and not the erratic one that ...

Filichia Features: Remembering Canterbury Tales

By Peter Filichia on March 30, 2012

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March is about to turn into April – which will remind many of us the lines that we learned in high school, college or grad school:“When April with his showers sweet with fruit the drought of March has pierced unto the root …”Yes, ...

Filichia Features: Musicals in Our Schools Week

By Peter Filichia on March 23, 2012

in Education and Arts Advocacy, Making Theater | Tags: Filichia Features, MTI Broadway Junior Collection, NBC's 'SMASH' Make a Musical

adobe acrobat professional x full versionAll parents eventually get this question from their kids: “If there’s a Mother’s Day and a Father’s Day, when’s Children’s Day?”Almost always, both parents immediately answer, “Every ...

Filichia Features: The Right Way is the Stage Write Way

By Peter Filichia on March 19, 2012

in Making Theater | Tags: Filichia Features

Susan Stroman says she doesn’t need pennies anymore.Well, of course, you say. Anyone who’s choreographed five Broadway musicals (including the smash hit Crazy for You) as well as directed and choreographed seven (including monster smash hit and ...