Peter Filichia

Precisely 506 months to the day after I saw the very first performance of the pre-Broadway tryout of Company at the Shubert Theatre in Boston, I saw it again -- at the GeVa Theatre Center in Rochester.I was sure that this audience wouldn’t react ...

Good thing that assistant stage manager Lindsay Weiner led the audience in breathing lessons before the show officially began.Our breath might have otherwise been taken away for good by all we saw at The Shubert Foundation/MTI Broadway Junior ...

Like Mrs. Lovett, “Sometimes ideas just pop into me head.” Only mine are more benign than hers, thank the Lord.With Encores! announcing its 2012-2013 season this week – Fiorello followed by It’s a Bird …It’s a Plane … It’s Superman ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...