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Filichia Features: Merrily Does Roll Along

by Peter Filichia on November 30, 2012

in A Little Night Music,Anyone Can Whistle,Company,Filichia Features,Follies,Merrily We Roll Along,Pacific Overtures,Sweeney Todd

Thirty-one years ago this week, Broadway saw the last of MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG. Granted, the then-new 1981 Stephen Sondheim musical had a hard act to follow: SWEENEY TODD, the 1979 musical (or opera, if you insist) that most everyone agrees is the composer-lyricist’s masterpiece. So MERRILY closed – after 16 performances. While word-of-mouth during [...]

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Filichia Features: Sondheim for Two

by Peter Filichia on October 5, 2012

in Anyone Can Whistle,Company,Filichia Features,Follies,Marry Me A Little,Saturday Night,West Side Story

As has been the case with thousands of musicals before it, MARRY ME A LITTLE starts with an overture. Or does it? Our program tells us that this new Keen Company production with recycled Stephen Sondheim songs is a two-character musical. We’ll meet Him and Her, as they were solely named by Craig Lucas and [...]

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Filichia Features: You Just Might Like YOU’RE GONNA LOVE TOMORROW

by Peter Filichia on September 28, 2012

in A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum,Anyone Can Whistle,Company,Filichia Features,Follies,Merrily We Roll Along,Pacific Overtures,Putting It Together (1999 Broadway Version),Saturday Night,The Frogs,The Music Man,You're Gonna Love Tomorrow

You’ve produced every one of the musicals that Stephen Sondheim has written. As a result, you’ve educated your audiences to know what to expect from the 20th century’s greatest musical theater composer-lyricist: the unexpected. YOU’RE GONNA LOVE TOMORROW is a good piece for you to do if theaters in neighboring towns have recently done SIDE [...]

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The Legendary Arthur Laurents Passes Away at 93

by JasonC on May 6, 2011

in Anyone Can Whistle,In the News,MTI Authors,West Side Story

Music Theatre International is deeply saddened by the loss of beloved librettist, playwright, screenwriter, director and friend Arthur Laurents.  Arthur died in Manhattan on May 5th and was 93 years old.  Among his many accomplishments, Arthur was the book-writer for MTI shows WEST SIDE STORY and ANYONE CAN WHISTLE. MTI’s Chairman and CEO, Freddie Gershon [...]

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Freddie and Myrna Gershon Fund Grant Program in Honor of Stephen Sondheim

by JasonC on September 28, 2010

in A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum,A Little Night Music,Anyone Can Whistle,Assassins,Candide (1974),Candide (1999),Company,Follies,Freddie Gershon,In the News,Into The Woods,Into The Woods JR.,Marry Me A Little,Merrily We Roll Along,MTI Authors,Pacific Overtures,Passion,Putting it Together (1993 MTC Version),Putting It Together (1999 Broadway Version),Saturday Night,Side By Side By Sondheim,Sunday In The Park With George,Sweeney Todd,Sweeney Todd School Edition,The Frogs,West Side Story,You're Gonna Love Tomorrow

MTI CEO Freddie Gershon, and wife Myrna, have partnered with the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC to create and fund a grant program to reward outstanding teachers in honor of their friend, composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim.  According to the Washington Examiner, “The Kennedy Center-Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Awards announced Tuesday will award $10,000 grants [...]

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There Won’t Be Trumpets: ANYONE CAN WHISTLE at Encores!

by KatH on April 9, 2010

in Anyone Can Whistle,Show Spotlight

This weekend, New York audiences are in for a treat.  Encores!, a concert series of rarely performed American musicals, is currently staging the experimental Stephen Sondheim/Arthur Laurents musical, ANYONE CAN WHISTLE.  The show, which has performances for this weekend only, stars Tony winner (and multiple nominee) Sutton Foster as Nurse Fay Apple, four-time Tony nominee [...]

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There Won’t Be Trumpets: A Brief Production History of ANYONE CAN WHISTLE

by KatH on March 8, 2010

in Anyone Can Whistle,General MTI News

This is the seventh in a series looking at the work of Stephen Sondheim. In early April, Encores! will put on a concert version of Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents’ musical, ANYONE CAN WHISTLE.  Tony Award winners Sutton Foster (THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE, THE DROWSY CHAPERONE, SHREK) and Donna Murphy (PASSION, WONDERFUL TOWN) will play defiant [...]

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