Peter Filichia to Discuss New Book STRIPPERS, SHOWGIRLS, AND SHARKS at Drama Book Shop, 5/29

This Wednesday, May 29th at 5:00 p.m. in conjunction with the publication of Peter Filichia's new book STRIPPERS, SHOWGIRLS, AND SHARKS, the Drama Book Shop, 250 West 40th Street (between 8th Ave & Broadway) will host a presentation. Peter's book looks at Best Musical Tony Losers. He will be interviewed by Ken Bloom, author of Broadway Musicals: The 101 Greatest. They'll discuss the logical choices, outrages, close races and upsets that have occurred in musical categories in the 66-year history of the Tony Awards.

Peter Filichia is the theater critic emeritus for the Star-Ledger in Newark, New Jersey and News 12 New Jersey. He has been a columnist for Playbill, Theater.com, Theatermania and Theater Week. He is a currently a columnist for www.masterworksbroadway.com as well as www.mtishows.com and www.kritzerland.com. Filichia is the author of Let's Put on a Musical, now in its third printing; Broadway Musicals: The Biggest Hit of the Season / The Biggest Flop of the Season and Broadway Musical MVPs 1960-2010: The Most Valuable Players of the Last 50 Seasons. Before joining the Theatre World Awards in 1996 as host and head of the selection committee, he served four terms as president of the Drama Desk.

Ken Bloom, a leading authority on American popular song and musical theatre, who's books American Song, Hollywood Song, and Tin Pan Alley are seminal works on stage, film and popular songs, documenting over 300,000 songs. His Broadway: An Encyclopedic Guide To The History, People And Places Of Times Square was followed by Jerry Herman: The Lyrics A Celebration and Broadway Musicals: The 101 Greatest Shows Of All Time, written with Frank Vlastnik. Some other books are American Songbook; The Singers, The Songwriters, And The Songs; Remember That I Love You, written with Jerry & Elaine Orbach and Hollywood Musicals: The 101 Greatest Song And Dance Films Of All Time.

Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks: A Very Opinionated History of the Broadway Musicals That Did Not Win the Tony Award (Hardcover) by Peter Filichia $26.99 ISBN-13: 9781250018434 Published: St. Martin's Press, 5/2013.