Filichia On Friday ~ Column Archive
November 4, 2011 What's Good  
November 11, 2011 I'm All Through With Promises, Promises Now  
November 18, 2011 It's a Hit, It's Hit – It's a Biblical Hit  
November 25, 2011 November Leftovers  
December 2, 2011 Here’s Love to Miracle on 34th Street: The Musical  
December 9, 2011 The Perfect Musical  
December 16, 2011 Musical Murder Most Foul  
December 23, 2011 Clearing Up Clear Day  
December 30, 2011 December Leftovers  
January 6, 2012 Buy Yourself Something You Don't Really Need  
January 13, 2012 It’s The Merm’s (What?) Birthday  
January 20, 2012 Let’s Root for Leigh Wakeford  
January 27, 2012 January Leftovers  
February 3, 2012 The First Smash  
February 10, 2012 Merrily We Roll Along: Yesterday Is Gone  
February 17, 2012 The Addams Family on Tour: Where Did We Go Right?  
February 24, 2012 Ben West: Make His Manhattan  
March 2, 2012 February Leftovers  
March 9, 2012 Carrie Now and Then  
March 16, 2012 This Matilda Does More Than Just Waltz  
March 23, 2012 Pipe Dream: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Raunchiest  
March 30, 2012 March Leftovers  
April 6, 2012 Jesus Christ Superstar: Don’t Give It Up for Lent  
April 13, 2012 Peterson and Mallory Will Show Everything’s Still Possible  
April 20, 2012 Magic/Bird: A Banner Day at the Theater  
April 27, 2012 April Leftovers  
May 4 , 2012 Something for the Boys: The Last of the Red Hot Musicals  
May 11 , 2012 Gentlemen and Ladies Will Prefer Megan Hilty  
May 18 , 2012 The 2012 Broadway University Final Exam  
May 25 , 2012 The Answers to the 2012 Broadway University Final Exam  
June 1 , 2012 May Leftovers  
June 8 , 2012 The 2011-2012 Theatre World Awards  
June 15 , 2012 The Tonys, 52 Years Apart  
June 22 , 2012 And the 1945 Pulitzer Prize in Drama goes to ...  
June 29 , 2012 June Leftovers  
July 6, 2012

Music Theatre of Wichita: Where the Guys Are

 
July 13, 2012

Clean-Up Time

 
July 20, 2012

Dogfight: It’s MUCH Better Than Cats

 
July 27 , 2012 July Leftovers  
August 3 , 2012 How ‘bout That, Sportiello Fans?  
August 10 , 2012 Sondheim in the Park with Whiz Kid  
August 17 , 2012

The 2012 Broadway University Entrance Exam

 
August 24 , 2012

I'm Glad They Brought It On

 
August 31 , 2012

August Leftovers

 
September 7 , 2012

The 2012 Broadway University Entrance Exam Answers

 
September 14 , 2012

Chaplin Two

 
September 21 , 2012

Jim Brochu: Quite a Character Man

 
September 28 , 2012

September Leftovers

 
October 5 , 2012

Ben West Is At Home Abroad

 
October 12 , 2012

Get With the Program

 
October 19 , 2012

1931-2012

 
October 26 , 2012
Jeffery T. Roberson a/k/a Varla Jean Merman: The Medium Rare.
 
November 2, 2012
"One Night in Bangkok" and Five Nights in Cincinnati
 
November 9, 2012
Finally – October Leftovers
 
November 16, 2012
It says here in these books ...
 
November 23, 2012
In a Little Weill and Lenya
 
November 30, 2012
November Leftovers
 
December 7, 2012
Musical Theatre Musings
 
December 14, 2012
Solid Gold Theater
 
December 21, 2012
When Size Mattered on Original Cast Albums
 
December 28, 2012
December Leftovers
 
January 4, 2013
The Fig Leaves Are Falling Will Rise Again
 
January 11, 2013
Back to Play
 
January 18, 2013
Golden Boy: 1937, 1964, 2013
 
January 25, 2013
The 2013 Broadway University Mid-Term Exam
 
February 1, 2013
January Leftovers and a New Brainteaser
 
February 8, 2013
Two Flops Get a Second Chance
 
February 15, 2013
The 2013 Broadway University Mid-Term Exam Answers
 
February 22, 2013
How Donnybrook! Improves The Quiet Man
 
March 1, 2013
February’s Leftovers and March’s Brainteaser
 
March 8, 2013
Happy Birthday to TACT, Rodgers and Hammerstein and Cinderella
 
March 15, 2013
Patti Sings! Patti Issues!
 
March 22, 2013
Can You Say L'esprit de l'escalier?
 
March 29, 2013
March’s Leftovers and April’s Brainteaser
 
April 5, 2013
Hands Down, A Musical That Could Still Be Great
 
April 12, 2013
The Actor Who Won the Recent Reality Show Search 
 
April 19, 2013
Mainstream Broadway, 2013 
 
April 26, 2013
April in Amsterdam 
 
May 3, 2013
April's Leftovers and May's Brainteaser 
 
May 10, 2013
On Your Toes: What The Black Crook Wrought 
 
May 17, 2013
Welcome 2013-2014! 
 
May 24, 2013
The 2013 Broadway University Final Exam 
 
May 31, 2013
May’s Leftovers and June’s Brainteaser 
 
June 7, 2013
The 2013 Broadway University Final Exam Answers 
 
June 14, 2013
The 2012-2013 Awards Season 
 
June 21, 2013
Steve Cuden Explains It All for You 
 
June 28, 2013
June’s Leftovers and July’s Brainteaser
 
July 5, 2013
Cradle and All
 
July 12, 2013
The Tom Swifty Goes Broadway
 
July 19, 2013
As Rudolph Says, “Mrs. Levi! She’s back!” – This Time at Goodspeed
 
July 26, 2013
Now That Jackie (Hoffman)’s Back in Town
 
August 2, 2013
July’s Leftovers and August’s Brainteaser
 
August 9, 2013
BETTY BLUE EYES’ U.S. Premiere in At Music Theatre of Wichita
 
August 16, 2013
Make a Friend with TOVARICH: The Play
 
August 23, 2013
The 2013 Broadway University Entrance Exam
 
August 30, 2013
August’s Leftovers and September’s Brainteaser
 
September 6, 2013
Bless You, Ben West, for BLESS YOU ALL
 
September 13, 2013
The 2013 Broadway University Entrance Exam
 
September 20, 2013
Trinity Repertory Company is Golden
 
September 27, 2013
September’s Leftovers and October’s Brainteaser
 
October 4, 2013
So What Are You Looking Forward To?
 
October 11, 2013
Three New Musicals in Six Days
 
October 18, 2013
My Own American Century Cycle
 
October 25, 2013
Father's Day in October
 
November 1, 2013
October’s Leftovers and November’s Brainteaser
 
November 8, 2013
Checkmate!
 
November 15, 2013
Reviewing a revue and a musical
 
November 22, 2013
Glen Berger Explains It All to You
 
November 29, 2013
November's Leftovers and December's Brainteaser
 
December 6, 2013
Betty & Adolph & Jule & Sammy & Saul & William & Larry & Bob & André
 
December 13, 2013
Twelve Days to Christmas
 
December 20, 2013
The Closest We Have to a Broadway Channel
 
December 27, 2013
December's Leftovers and January's Brainteaser
 
January 3, 2014
How Much Can We See?
 
January 10, 2014
The 2014 Broadway University Midterm Exam
 
January 17, 2014
LOOT: When Love Turns to Hate
 
January 24, 2014
The 2014 Broadway University Midterm Exam Answers
 
January 31, 2014
January’s Leftovers and February’s Brainteaser
 
February 7, 2014
Erin Maguire: Married, but in DIVORCE
 
February 14, 2014
There Is Always LITTLE ME
 
February 21, 2014
Many DINNERS WITH FRIENDS
 
February 28, 2014
February's Leftovers and March's Brainteaser
 
March 7, 2014
Paging Marsha Norman
 
March 14, 2014
EXITS AND ENTRANCES
 
March 21, 2014
HAPPY TO MAKE THE MOST HAPPY FELLA’S REACQUAINTANCE
 
March 28, 2014
What Needs to Be Said about ROCKY
 
April 4, 2014
March Leftovers and April's Brainteaser
 
April 11, 2014
Six Shows in Six States
 
April 18, 2014
ACT ONE: THE MUSICAL
 
April 25, 2014
Making Sure THE BUNGLER Isn’t Bungled
 
May 2, 2014
April's Leftovers and May's Brainteaser
 
May 9, 2014
The Outrageous Tony Snubs – of 1963-64
 
May 16, 2014
The 2014 Broadway University Final Exam
 
May 23, 2014
Welcome, 2014-2015!
 
May 30, 2014
May's Leftovers and June's Brainteaser
 
June 6, 2014
The Return of RUGANTINO!
 
June 13, 2014
THE AMBASSADOR REVUE – And More!
 
June 20, 2014
THE 2014 Broadway University Final Exam Answers
 
June 27, 2014
June’s Leftovers and July’s Brainteaser
 
July 4, 2014
How Did You Get to Be You, Mr. Boritt?
 
July 11, 2014
Bill Russell: From The Passion Play to the Drag Show
 
July 18, 2014
The Broadway Bunion
 
July 25, 2014
July's Leftovers and August's Brainteaser
 
August 1, 2014 ALLIE GOES TO TEXAS WHILE BEN ROLLS ALONG MERRILL-Y  
August 8, 2014 A True Marx Brothers Rediscovery  
August 15, 2014 The 2014 Broadway University Entrance Exam  
August 22, 2014 McCASLAND TAKES ON TALLULAH, TENNESSEE, LAURETTE AND BILLIE  
August 29, 2014 August’s Leftovers and September’s Brainteaser  
September 5, 2014 Let Me Hear Your Opinion on This  
September 12, 2014 This Mustn't Be the Place  
September 19, 2014 The 2014 Broadway University Entrance Exam Answers  
September 26, 2014 September's Leftovers and October's Brainteaser  
October 3, 2014 Let's Hear It for the Rainbow Tour  
October 10, 2014 A CABARET That That Would Make Hal and Sam Blush  
October 17, 2014 It's Time for A TIME FOR SINGING  
October 24, 2014 Penelope Daulton: In Comes Company Manager  
October 31, 2014 October's Leftovers and November's Brainteaser  
November 7, 2014 A Busy Time for Musicals  
November 14, 2014 The Fourth Wall Follies  
November 21, 2014 Come Look At the Better Musical  
November 28, 2014 Ten Thousand, Ten Thousand and One, Ten Thousand and Two …  
December 5, 2014 November’s Leftovers and December’s Brainteaser  
December 12, 2014 The New Recording of ROBERTA  
December 19, 2014 Is the Third Time the Charm – or Strikeout – for ANNIE on Film?  
December 26, 2014 INTO THE WOODS Goes into the Nation’s Cinemas  
January 2, 2015 December's Leftovers and January's Brainteaser  
January 9, 2015 An Evening with Dame Diana Rigg  
January 16, 2015 The 2015 Broadway University Mid-Term Exam  
January 23, 2015 Right for the Stage  
January 30, 2015 Will “LADY” Be Good at Encores!?  
February 6, 2015 January’s Leftovers and February’s Brainteaser  
February 13, 2015 The 2015 Broadway University Mid-Term Exam Answers  
February 20, 2015 A Month Without Broadway  
February 27, 2015 February’s Leftovers and March’s Brainteaser  
March 6, 2015 Art Imitates Life  
March 13, 2015 LOVE IS THE ANSWER (OR IS IT?)  
March 20, 2015 ONE OF THE BEST MUSICALS TO LOSE BEST MUSICAL  
March 27, 2015 March’s Leftovers and April’s Brainteaser  
April 3, 2015 If You Insist on Hearing My Opinion …  
April 10, 2015 TWO NOTORIOUS THEATRICAL PERFORMANCES  
April 17, 2015 GIGI'S NEW GIG  
April 24, 2015 PARIS MAKE ME THORNY  
May 1, 2015 April’s Leftovers and May’s Brainteaser  
May 8, 2015 The 2015 Broadway University Final Exam  
May 15, 2015 GIVE YOUR REGARDS TO CAGNEY AND CREIGHTON  
May 22, 2015 The 2015 Broadway University Final Exam Answers  
May 29, 2015 May’s Leftovers and June’s Brainteaser  
June 5, 2015 Welcome, 2015-2016!  
June 12, 2015 Hail to Thee, North Shore Music Theatre!  
June 19, 2015 A Classic(s) Saturday  
June 26, 2015 June’s Leftovers and July’s Brainteaser  
July 3, 2015 The Return of RUTHLESS!  
July 10, 2015 Something Wonderful vs. Something Rotten!  
July 17, 2015 July, 2015; July, 1977; November, 1965; June, 2014  
July 24, 2015 It’s Kristin’s Birthday!  
July 31, 2015 July’s Leftovers and August’s Brainteaser  
August 7, 2015 THE WIZ THAT THE WIZ WAS AND IS  
August 14, 2015 The 2015 Broadway University Entrance Exam  
August 21, 2015 GIVE US LIBERTY SMITH!  
August 28, 2015 August’s Leftovers and September’s Brainteaser  
September 4, 2015 The 2015 Broadway University Entrance Exam Answers  
September 11, 2015 My Favorite Story from the Summer  
September 18, 2015 The Other THE SEASON  
September 25, 2015 September’s Leftovers and October’s Brainteaser  
October 2, 2015 The return of THE ROTHSCHILDS -- & SONS.  
October 9, 2015 Remembering THE ROTHSCHILDS’ Hillard Elkins  
October 16, 2015 Seating Plans  
October 23, 2015 Revisiting THE BOYS IN THE BAND  
October 30, 2015 October’s Leftovers and November’s Brainteaser  
November 6, 2015 We Can Always Go Back to Before  
November 13, 2015 From Reams with Love: HELLO, DOLLY!  
November 20, 2015 DUDDY KRAVITZ: The OTHER Best Musical of 2015.  
November 27, 2015 November’s Leftovers and December’s Brainteaser  
December 4, 2015 STEVEN GROSS HAS 7,655 SONGS FOR YOU  
December 11, 2015 IT’S THE MOST TICKET-SCARCE TIME OF THE YEAR  
December 18, 2015 Two Vintage Plays; Two New Hits  
December 25, 2015

Broadway’s People of the Year

 
January 1, 2016

December’s Leftovers and January’s Brainteaser

 
January 8, 2016

The 2016 Broadway University Mid-Term Examination

 
January 15, 2016

More on SEASON IN, SEASON OUT

 
January 22, 2016

The 2016 Broadway University Mid-Term Examination Answer

 
January 29, 2016

January’s Leftovers and February’s Brainteaser

 
February 5, 2016

Reaching the Other Ninety Percent

 
February 12, 2016

There’s a Little CABIN at Encores!

 
February 19, 2016

Let’s COPE Again, Like We Did Last Century

 
February 26, 2016

February’s Leftovers and March’s Brainteaser

 
March 4, 2016

We Love You, CONRACK

 
March 11, 2016

Growing Up Gershwin

 
March 18, 2016

SHAW AND STALLER – PEFECT TOGETHER

 
March 25, 2016

March’s Leftovers and April’s Brainteaser

 
April 1, 2016

1776: It's a Masterpiece, I Say

 
April 8, 2016

A Chat with Choreographer Larry Fuller

 
April 15, 2016

Rhymes Have I – Or Have I?

 
April 22, 2016

R&H: Relevant & Human or Run-down and Humdrum?

 
April 29, 2016

April’s Leftovers and May’s Brainteaser

 
May 6, 2016

Long Day’s Journey into Questions

 
May 13, 2016

The 2016 Broadway University Final Exam

 
May 20, 2016

WHEN EVERYTHING WAS INDEED POSSIBLE

 
May 27, 2016

The 2016 Broadway University Final Exam Answers

 
June 3, 2016

The Answer to May's Brainteaser