Category Archives: New Releases

“Sleeping Beauty Wakes” GL CD Recording Underway

September 9, 2008 – 7:32 am

Since closing night in May 2007 of the first production of SLEEPING BEAUTY WAKES in LA, we’ve been wanting to make a GrooveLily album of songs from the show. Many of you (especially people we met by the stage door at the Kirk Douglas Theatre after a performance of SBW) have asked us about it [...]

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Long Story Short demos #3 & #4 - “Live Like This” & “We Should Get Married”

September 3, 2008 – 8:44 am

As we release our 15 home demos each week, leading up to Pittsburgh opening night on October 29, there will be several 2-song Wednesdays; today is the first.
Something helpful to know about this show, and about the play it’s based on (”An Infinite Ache” by David Schulner): there are sudden, frequent jumps forward in time [...]

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Long Story Short demo #2 - “It Happens In A Moment”

August 27, 2008 – 8:02 am

Okay, here’s demo #2. Thanks so much for all your great feedback on #1.
To quell any vestigial confusion, let me reiterate that we are *strictly* the writers on LONG STORY SHORT: the characters are an Asian woman and a Jewish man, to be played by the wonderful actors Pearl Sun and Ben Evans. We will [...]

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Long Story Short demo #1 - “Rocking Chairs”

August 20, 2008 – 8:51 am

So here’s something we’ve never done before - we’re releasing home demo tapes as we make them.
We begin with a collection of home demos from LONG STORY SHORT - Brendan and Val’s brand new 2-person musical premiering in Pittsburgh and Palo Alto this fall. The recordings will appear here song by song *every Wednesday* beginning [...]

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