Peter Filichia To Be Interviewed On His New Broadway Book 10/15 On WBGO Journal

By: Oct. 14, 2010
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Peter Filichia the author of the new informative and entertaining book: Broadway Musicals: The Biggest Hit and the Biggest Flop of the Season - 1959 to 2009 will be the guest of Michael Bourne on the WBGO Journal, 7:30 PM this Friday, October 15th, 88.3FM or streaming on wbgo.org. The entire interview will be available after 8:00 pm at wbgo.org/news/journal. Michael Bourne has been a New York theatre critic going on 30 years,. He is a member of the Outer Critics Circle. Mr. Bourne is the arts critic-at-large for the WBGO Journal, as well as the everyday afternoon "drive jock" (2:00 -6:30 PM) on WBGO (the jazz station) and also the Sunday (10:00 AM - 2:00 PM) host of "Singers Unlimited" for 25 years.

It happens every season. Broadway has one, two, or if really lucky a few hit musicals, but there are many, many more flops. From torturous Philadelphia and disaster Boston tryouts, and to Broadway with award winning composers, bookwriters, lyricists, producers and stars; here's a look at the extreme cases from each season of the past half-century. 100 Shows: The musicals that everyone knew would be hits - The Sound of Music, The Phantom of the Opera, The Producers. Those that sounded terrible from their announcement - Via Galactica, The Civil War, Lestat (and sometimes even worse than expected). The musicals that were destined to succeed - Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Merrily We Roll Along. The shows that there was not much awareness or thought didn't have a chance - Man of La Mancha, 1776, Grease. (Paperback: 260 pages; Publisher: Applause Theatre and Cinema Books (September 15, 2010); Language: English; ISBN-10: 1423495624; ISBN-13: 978-1423495628; Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches; Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds; List $19.99)

Peter Filichia is a New York-based theater critic for The Star Ledger newspaper in Newark, New Jersey and for television station News 12 New Jersey. He also writes a regular column three times a week, "Peter Filichia's Diary," for the website TheaterMania.com. Weekly, he writes a column on original cast recordings for Masterworks Broadway. Filichia is the author of the book Let's Put on a Musical: How to Choose the Right Show for Your School, Community or Professional Theater, currently available through Back Stage Books. He wrote the weekly column entitled "Stagestruck" for Theater Week magazine during its nine-year run and for three years for Playbill On-Line. Then he wrote a daily column, "Theatergoer's Diary," for Theatre.com and BroadwayOnLine.com.

Peter served four terms as president and chairman of the nominating committee of the Drama Desk, for which he wrote and emceed its annual Drama Desk Awards. He has also been a member of the nominating committee for the Lucille Lortel Awards and is host of the annual Theatre World Awards. In addition, he has also written the liner notes for many Broadway cast albums, including Jesus Christ Superstar and Fade Out - Fade In to name a couple. He is the critic-in-residence for the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and also serves on the ASCAP Popular Awards Panel. He has appeared on television with Sally Jessy Raphaël, Phil Donahue, and on Saturday Night Live. In 2004 and 2005, he hosted with Matthew Murray the live theatre discussion show Bitch or Brag About Broadway at New York's 45th Street Theatre. The popular writer is also a moderator/host for numerous book and celebrity panels and presentations as well as a lecturer around the country.

 



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