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About David Fick

teacher + curator + writer + director + performer = (future maker + ground shaker) x (big thinker + problem shrinker) x (go getter + detail sweater)

30 Musicals in 30 Days: Your Latest Musical Obsession

Posted on April 2, 2011 by David Fick

Post a song from your latest musical obsession. It hasn’t been a very obsessive obsession and it’s pretty much over, but I have been listening to Brigadoon quite a bit lately, mainly – I admit – to figure out what … Continue reading →

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30 Musicals in 30 Days: Your First Musical

Posted on April 1, 2011 by David Fick

Post a song from your first musical. The first musical to which I was exposed was Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s The Sound of Music, which my grandmother used to put on the record player in the afternoons when … Continue reading →

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30 Musicals in 30 Days

Posted on April 1, 2011 by David Fick

I found this little game on Facebook and thought it might be a great idea to kickstart my blogging again. Time hasn’t been on my side the past couple of months and this seems like a relatively easy commitment. I’ll … Continue reading →

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OPENING NIGHT: HOW TO SUCCEED… on Broadway

Posted on March 27, 2011 by David Fick

The second Broadway revival of HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING opens tonight. Continue reading →

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NEWSFLASH: ROCK OF AGES on the Silver Screen in June 2012

Posted on March 24, 2011 by David Fick

We’ve known for some time that Rock of Ages will become a movie musical under the direction of Adam Shankman, who said the following about the way he wants to cast the film: “I’m thinking big, and absolutely am going … Continue reading →

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RIP Hugh Martin

Posted on March 11, 2011 by David Fick

American musical theater and film composer Hugh Martin died today. Best known for the seasonal standard, “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”, which is taken from the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me In St. Louis. Martin contributed material to 5 … Continue reading →

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Disney’s New ALICE IN WONDERLAND Musical

Posted on March 11, 2011 by David Fick

So word on the street – first reported in an exclusive from Playbill – is that Disney has a new idea for their next big stage production: an adaptation of their most recent version of Alice in Wonderland. Linda Woolverton … Continue reading →

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NEWSFLASH: No more Tambor in LA CAGE AUX FOLLES

Posted on February 26, 2011 by David Fick

While it’s relatively the big news is that there are new principles in Broadway’s current revival of La Cage aux Folles, including Harvey Fierstein, whose tweets leading up to his first performance were majorly entertaining, as Albin, it’s perhaps even … Continue reading →

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New PORGY AND BESS Musical Adaptation (with Audra!)

Posted on February 11, 2011 by David Fick

Which part is the real news here? That Diane Paulus, Suzan-Lori Parks and Diedre Murray are adapting the classic George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward opera, Porgy and Bess, as a contemporary-styled musical theatre piece? That the producers are Hair alumni … Continue reading →

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JUMBO: the SPIDER-MAN of 1935

Posted on January 24, 2011 by David Fick

I just read a rather interesting article by Michael Sommers of the New Jersey Newsroom comparing the follies of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart’s Jumbo with those of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, the show that has caused such a … Continue reading →

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