Peter Filichia, James Marino, and Michael Portantiere talk about Best (and worst) Titles of Shows.
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Peter Filichia | [email protected] | Facebook
PETER FILICHIA is a playwright, journalist, and historian with a number of books. His columns appear at Masterworks Broadway, Broadway Select and many other places.
James Marino | [email protected] | Twitter | Facebook
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Michael Portantiere | [email protected] | Facebook
MICHAEL PORTANTIERE is a theater reviewer and essayist. He is the founder and editor of CastAlbumReviews.com. He is also a theatrical photographer whose photos have appeared in The New York Times and other major publications. You can see his photography work at FollowSpotPhoto.com.
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Discussion:
Food For Thought Productions Presents Cady Huffman & Nathan Darrow in MRS. SORKEN and I CAN’T IMAGINE TOMORROW
For tickets, call: 646-366-9340
Street Scene (1931 movie became musical)
Willow Cabin Theater did Street Scene
William A. Brady, Theater Owner, Producer
Best (and worst) Titles of Shows
Sixth Finger in a Five Finger Glove
Blood, Sweat and Stanley Poole
Is There Life After High School
This Is Goggle (Bernadette Peters, out of town closing)
She’d had her Equity card for several years already — got it doing a play called ”This Is Goggle,” which was directed by Otto Preminger and mercifully closed out of town.
THEATER; Her Stage Mother, Herself By Jesse Green (The New York Times)
110 in the Shade
Away We Go became Oklahoma
The Firebrand of Florence was originally Much Ado About Love
Here’s Love was an excellent title for Miracle on 34th Street
Anything Goes was an excellent title
West Side Story excellent title (title was Gangway)
Home Sweet Homer (was The Odyssey)
The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd
Cat and Mouse became Drat, The Cat
Time of the Barracudas (with Elaine Stritch)
Kamala (window card parody of Camelot)
https://www.talkinbroadway.com/allthatchat_new/d.php?id=2495062
“Kamala” lyric sung to the tune of “Camelot”
Posted by: PlayWiz 05:42 pm EDT 08/15/20
Camelot
The Hot L Baltimore
The Sound of Music
Carousel
Grand Hotel
Mata Hari
Bagels and Yox
Urban Blight
Our Town
The Skin of Our Teeth
Louis the 14
Steve Bell:
Wrong Turn at Lungfish
Aaron Slick from Punkin’ Crick
Urinetown
The Zulu and the Zayda
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Anthony Janicki: GOLDILOCKS was a strange title for a musical that has a very good score and was apparently quite amusing, but the title did a poor job of telling us what the show was about.
Robb Johnston: How about “The Lohman Family Picnic”
Chuchem
Anatol and Me, became The Gay Life, then The High Life
Anthony Janicki: ALLEGRO was probably a bad title.
Me and Juliet
Kiss Me Kate
Romeo and Bernadette
The Boys From Syracuse
Peter’s Trivia Section
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