Author Archives: David Fick

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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)

NEWSFLASH: SISTER ACT for the West End

Posted on November 13, 2008 by David Fick

Playbill is reporting that Whoopi Goldberg is bringing the stage adaptation of Sister Act to the West End in 2009. With a book by Cheri and Bill Steinkellner and an original score by Alan Menken and Glenn Slater, the show … Continue reading →

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SOMETHING TO DANCE ABOUT: New Jerome Robbins Documentary

Posted on November 12, 2008 by David Fick

A new 2 hour documentary about the life and work of Jerome Robbins, the director-choreographer of seminal Broadway shows like West Side Story, Gypsy and Fiddler on the Roof, will premiere on PBS in February in 2009. Narrated by Ron … Continue reading →

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NEWSFLASH: Liza is Back on Broadway!

Posted on October 27, 2008 by David Fick

Earlier this month, Playbill announced that Liza Minnelli’s new Broadway concert, Liza’s at the Palace…!, would be seen on the Great White Way from 3-14 December and ticket sales for the run opened yesterday. The concert, advertised as “an incomparable … Continue reading →

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Casting the GUYS AND DOLLS Revival

Posted on October 10, 2008 by David Fick

The first bit of casting for Des McAnuff’s revival of the classic Broadway musical Guys and Dolls has been announced. Nathan Detroit will be played by…. Oliver Platt!

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You Can’t Stop the Beat: HAIRSPRAY 2

Posted on July 23, 2008 by David Fick

Following the success of the hit movie musical Hairspray, based on the smash stage show of the same name, New Line Cinema has asked John Waters – the man behind the original non-musical film that inspired both of these hits … Continue reading →

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Broadway Revival for PAL JOEY

Posted on June 20, 2008 by David Fick

Word is that the Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart’s 1940 musical comedy, Pal Joey, will be revived on Broadway in a limited engagement in December this year. Christian Hoff will star in the titular role, with Stockard Channing as Vera … Continue reading →

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SOUTH PACIFIC Review Roundup

Posted on April 14, 2008 by David Fick

Broadway’s revival of South Pacific has opened to a set of excellent reviews. Here’s a roundup of what the critics are saying about the show: Raves Ben Brantley at The New York Times: For this South Pacific recreates the unabashed, … Continue reading →

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SOUTH PACIFIC: the Next Generation

Posted on April 7, 2008 by David Fick

Lillian Ross has written a super article in The New Yorker about watching the revival with the daughters of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Mary Rodgers Guettel and Alice Hammerstein Mathias. Some of the highlights: About the Orchestra in … Continue reading →

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NEWSFLASH: BRIGADOON “Revisal” for Broadway!

Posted on March 12, 2008 by David Fick

A revival of the classic Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe musical, BRIGADOON, is headed for Broadway. Continue reading →

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LITTLE WOMEN: a Missed Opportunity?

Posted on February 3, 2008 by David Fick

I was giving the cast album of Little Women, a show that has not made much of an impact on me in the past, another spin in the CD player recently and was, as ever, frustrated by what Mindi Dickstein … Continue reading →

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