Paul Sabourin, of Paul and Storm, just turned 40, and his wife threw him a surprise birthday party. We weren’t able to be there, but Storm invited us to participate in a mashup video where we would reminisce about something absolutely fictional in Paul’s history. Accordingly, we filmed a little something in the lobby of [...]
Okay, we’re going to do it. We’re going to finish Wheelhouse. For real.
For those of you who don’t know anything about this, Wheelhouse is the 2nd GrooveLily concert-musical-hybrid thing, the one we started in 2004-5, after Striking 12 was proving to be a successful venture and we wanted to do more of the same.
TheatreWorks supported [...]
January 5, 2010 – 3:31 pm
One of the great byproducts of Striking 12 getting licensed here and there, is that occasionally we get to meet people who played us.
Val and I are trading off for two weeks, with one of us working on Toy Story The Musical on site in Anaheim while the other stays home and takes the kid [...]
November 28, 2009 – 7:22 pm
Back in 2006, when we spent the better part of six months working on writing and then rehearsing and then performing A Midsummer Night’s Dream with director Tina Landau, we made some lasting friendships with some of the actors. Notably, we had to collaborate closely with Jesse Nager (who sang so gloriously on our recording [...]
October 15, 2009 – 2:23 pm
Ladies and Gentlemen, it’s out. It’s called “Tinker Bell & the Lost Treasure,” and it’s the first feature film we’ve ever been involved in. An album featuring two (okay, one-and-a-half) songs (one has music by slammin’ film composer Joel McNeely with lyrics by Val and myself) is released on iTunes as of September 22 (but [...]
October 1, 2009 – 4:24 pm
We just got an unequivocally awesome review in the Tulsa World, and we need to crow about it for a minute. We don’t play as many concerts as we used to, so it feels pretty darned nice to get a review like this (by James D. Watts, Jr.):
You hear a GrooveLily song from one of [...]
October 1, 2009 – 3:52 pm
Hey folks.
Due to a miscommunication between us and an unnamed third party, we’re not currently able to let the over 20,000 people who attended Sleeping Beauty Wakes in 2007 know about our upcoming show at Largo on Wednesday, October 7. We were, as you can imagine, counting on being able to tell all 20,000 of [...]