In Act 1, there’s a dream sequence which encompasses the entire Sleeping Beauty fairy tale–from before birth of princess through to princes coming and slashing through brambles to kiss sleeping girl one hundred years later. Only the tale is told out of order and through the lens of the dreamers who are dreaming it–four sleep [...]
Couldn’t post last night, my apologies. The creative team’s preferred method of meeting after rehearsal has become the following: convene at Brendan and Val’s place at 8 pm, after Mose has gone to bed. What’s great about this–Mara Isaacs, Brendan, Val, Rebecca Taichman, Rachel Sheinkin all around the table in our little rented apartment–is that [...]
Never even made it to rehearsal today–long writing session in our apartment with Rachel. Our Orderly, Bryce Ryness, and his wife Meredith and daughter Mercy came by as I was winding down with Mose at the end of the day with some Paper Mario. They knocked on the door and Mercy’s happy 18-month-old face was [...]
March 31, 2011 – 10:01 pm
Last night Mose slept for eLEVEN HOURS. That’s right, the capitalization was correct: e-LEVEN. HOURS. What a difference. Sleep deprivation makes us all into lousy, grouchy, bitchy uncreative people, and Mose had been getting grouchier and grouchier since we arrived here in Princeton, until we figured out a couple of things: humidifier close the window [...]
The days of little sleep are already beginning to wear on me. I’m not the spring chicken I once was–I remember doing all-nighters for fun during college. What was I thinking? Youth is wasted on the young. Now I get 5 1/2 hours of sleep three nights in a row and I’m a zombie. Our [...]
Okay, I shouldn’t be writing this. I should be sleeping. But today was so great. Firstly, we have a rehearsal pianist, Chris Ertelt. What this means is he can go over parts to the songs with the non-patients while I set up in another room and write with Val. This is heaven. This is also [...]
I shouldn’t even be writing this. I’m so behind with my part of the rewrites of our show. But I can’t help myself: today, after four years of readings and work at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, NJ, we had our FIRST REHEARSAL with ACTORS and EVERYBODY all in the SAME ROOM. And it’s a [...]
Hey folks–La Jolla Playhouse (where we’ve previously had a workshop and reading of Val’s solo show Ernest Shackleton Loves Me) has announced what we’ve known for a couple of weeks now: after the run of Sleeping Beauty Wakes at McCarter Theatre in Princeton, the show is packing up and moving to sunny southern California for [...]
Longtime GrooveLily fan (and NASA employee) Koji Mukai recently made a comment on the NASA Blueshift site, recommending “Home Fires Burning” as a potential song for astronauts to wake up to. Sir, we applaud your suggestion heartily. Thanks for bringing this old neglected chestnut out of the fire and into orbit! Here’s a home demo [...]
February 17, 2011 – 2:41 pm
Ladies and Gentlemen: we’re going to do a run of Wheelhouse. In a theatre. The run is from June 6 to July 1, 2012. There’s an official announcement from Theatreworks, and a mention on Playbill.com, but you can get the straight poop here. It’s happening. It is our hope that we will actually have the [...]