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Filichia Features: On Stage at Junior Theater Festival ‘14

By Peter Filichia on February 07, 2014

in Education and Arts Advocacy, Making Theater | Tags: Filichia Features, Junior Theater Festival 2014

In a way, it’s the musical theater equivalent of speed dating.You do get to see as many as eight musicals in four hours – but only in a manner of speaking. The 93 schools and academies that have come to Atlanta to appear in the Junior Theater ...

Filichia Features: The Night before the Junior Theater Festival ‘14

By Peter Filichia on January 31, 2014

in Education and Arts Advocacy, Making Theater | Tags: Filichia Features, Junior Theater Festival 2014

In a way, the Junior Theater Festival has the wrong name.Someone not familiar with the magnificent two-day event that occurs each January in Atlanta might assume that the “Junior” means that the festival is a mini-version of a major theater ...

Filichia Features: Five, Six, Seven, GREAT!

By Peter Filichia on January 24, 2014

in Making Theater | Tags: Filichia Features

When we last left Nate Foster, we didn’t want to.Tens of thousands who read Tim Federle’s young adult novel Better Nate Than Ever immediately fell in love with the thirteen-year-old native of Jankburg, Pennsylvania.Where?Put it this ...

Filichia Features: Moorestown’s Thoroughly Modern decision

By Peter Filichia on January 17, 2014

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

Sitting in the Upper Elementary School in Moorestown, New Jersey, I’m looking forward to the audience reaction when the lights come up at a certain moment in Scene Four.The Moorestown Theatre Company is offering Thoroughly Modern Millie, the ...

Filichia Features: Learn about Lou Volpe, a Great Drama Teacher

By Peter Filichia on January 10, 2014

in Announcements | Tags: General MTI News

Whenever someone has asked me the question, “If you could have as a dinner companion anyone who’s ever lived, who would it be?” my answer has always been “Thornton Wilder. I’d love to chat with the man who pointed out how precious life is ...

Filichia Features: Start Planning for A Christmas Carol

By Peter Filichia on January 06, 2014

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

Adults have differing opinions on politics, religion, sex, money and virtually everything else, but there’s one aspect of life on which they all agree.Time passes oh-so-swiftly and much-too-quickly.So start planning your December 2014 ...

Filichia Features: An Apology to Annie's director

By Peter Filichia on December 27, 2013

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

William Goldman said it best in his landmark 1969 book The Season.“It’s hard to be smart.”Yes, it certainly is. And while we have this message hammered home to us in some way or another most every day, I was reminded of it when I saw ...

Filichia Features: The Story of The Story of My Life

By Peter Filichia on December 20, 2013

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

You may know the song entitled “The Story of My Life” from Shrek, but do you know the musical called The Story of My Life? It has nothing to do with Pinocchio, Peter Pan or Papa Bear, as Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire’s song does. ...

Filichia Features: Tips from the Shrek Video and Two Cast Members

By Peter Filichia on December 13, 2013

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

When you mount a musical, you needn’t slavishly follow a Broadway’s production’s template.In fact, some of the best subsequent productions of musicals have varied widely from the Broadway originals. All the lines and songs have been kept ...

Filichia Features: Music Math Charms to Soothe the Savage Kid

By Peter Filichia on December 06, 2013

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

It’s a long-held theory that people who are good at math are also good in music.So why not a musical about math?Many people are responsible for one aimed at the K-to-Grade Four set. It’s THE MAIN STREET KIDS’ CLUB: A MATHSTART MUSICAL.It ...