Author Archives: Valerie

Free Tinker Bell 3 sneak-preview screenings nationwide this weekend

In case you’d like to check out this direct-to-DVD movie, TINKER BELL & THE GREAT FAIRY RESCUE, on the big screen…
Once again, Bren and Val have 1 1/2 songs in this film, just like in last year’s TINKER BELL & THE LOST TREASURE: for this year’s film (the third in the Tink series), we wrote [...]

Angels 4 Ana Benefit Concert Monday June 7, Pasadena, CA: Val & Bren doing 2 songs

We’ve just been invited to be a part of a benefit concert coming up THIS MONDAY(!) featuring glitterati from TV and the LA musical theatre world. We’ll be sharing the stage with Jason Robert Brown, Georgia Stitt, Michelle Duffy, Susan Egan, and others who are all remarkably badass. Daniel Tatar, who recently [...]

Near La Jolla? Come to free SHACKLETON reading Wed June 16

We’ll be in a cozy 99-seat theatre space at La Jolla Playhouse, trying out the latest version of ERNEST SHACKLETON LOVES ME, our one-woman musical for Val that we’re writing with Joe DiPietro (who’s flying in direct from the Tony Awards to be there with us).
Script in hand, writing in progress…this is a free developmental [...]

Kimmel Center photo for May 19 show: Dudamel-ting into GrooveLily

I just love this. I hope we get to meet the ever-ebullient Gustavo (and the legendarily lyrical Lizz) in person next Wednesday.

Val & Bren (& Gene via video), Palo Alto May 8: TheatreWorks Gala 40 2-For-1 Tix

Brendan and Val (and Gene, via video!) will be at this weekend’s gala 40th anniversary concert for TheatreWorks at the Mountain View Performing Arts Center, along with David Henry Hwang, Jeanine Tesori, Paul Gordon, Vienna Teng and others. We had thought it was a donors-only affair – but the theater has [...]

Kimmel Center, Philadelphia May 19: Tix from $20

May 19, Philadelphia: Gustavo Dudamel leading LA Philharmonic, Jazz vocalist Lizz Wright & GrooveLily at Kimmel Center
We are so delighted to return to Philadelphia and be a part of this exciting event, which is the spring fundraiser supporting the Kimmel Center’s educational offerings. This will be a very special evening [...]

Grandpop Sam singing to my yoga class

I’ve been doing various kinds of yoga for a few years now (and recently Brendan has gotten into it too, specifically the bikram variety) – and I absolutely swear by it. I feel more relaxed, serene, stronger, and even a bit taller…and the yoga is a perfect balancing counterpart to what I’ve done for many [...]

A Val + Bren (+ Joel McNeely) Song at Carnegie Hall Fri Mar 12

We wish we could be there…for the first time ever, one of our songs is going to be performed at Carnegie Hall!
Méav Ni Mhaolchatha will be singing “Where the Sunbeams Play,” a closing-credits song for the movie TINKER BELL AND THE LOST TREASURE that we wrote with brilliant composer and great guy Joel McNeely. Méav [...]

Returning to College Station, TX Thursday Mar 4

Really looking forward to this! We played STRIKING 12 a couple of years ago here at Texas A&M, in a cozy cabaret space for 3 nights in a row, and had a blast. Now we’re returning to play the larger Rudder Theatre, with SLEEPING BEAUTY WAKES in concert, this Thursday, March 4, as part of [...]

Val & Bren to play Kennedy Center “Broadway: Today & Tomorrow” Series Feb 13, Millennium Stage

Michael Kerker and the fine folks at ASCAP are presenting a week-long series of free performances at Washington, DC’s Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, and have given Val and Brendan the final one-hour concert slot: Saturday, February 13 at 6 PM. The two of us will be playing a bunch of songs from a bunch of [...]