Category Archives: Latest News

BROWSERS (Amazon musical web series featuring Brendan’s music) pilot is OUT! Please watch/review.

BROWSERS, the Amazon musical-sitcom web series on which Brendan is music supervisor as well as co-composer, is HERE! (At least the pilot is…and we have all fingers and toes crossed for the rest of the season to be greenlighted.) It’s 22 minutes long, hilarious, smart, slightly profane (don’t let the little kids watch), and REALLY [...]

so proud of our booking agents, who won “Agent of the Year” award

It’s like the Grammys for booking agents. Way to go, Larry and Tim!               Larry Kosson and Tim Drake of The Roots Agency are dual winners this year of the 2013 NAPAMA Award for Excellence as Agent in the Performing Arts.

new blog at Milburn-Vigoda.com – announcing “Every Seven”

Hey folks – there’s a blog entry up at Milburn & Vigoda, announcing our “Every Seven” project and including a brand new video. Don’t miss it!

Annie Award nomination!

For the second year in a row, Bren and Val have been nominated for an Annie Award, along with film composer Joel McNeely. It’s for the music we wrote for the latest Tinker Bell film, “Secret of the Wings”; we’re in the “Music in an Animated Feature Production” category. The awards ceremony will be February [...]

Hi, we’re a rock band.

Hi! We’re GrooveLily, a theatrical power-pop trio consisting of Valerie Vigoda, Brendan Milburn, and Gene Lewin. If you’ve never heard us before, listen to this: We write musicals and perform in them sometimes, and we play concerts whenever we can.

Bren & Val nominated for an Annie Award

Well, this is a wonderful surprise. Brendan and Valerie (along with film composer Joel McNeely) have just been nominated for an Annie Award for Music in a Television Production, for our music for “Tinker Bell & the Pixie Hollow Games.” Check out the details in Theatermania and Stitch Kingdom. We’re up against the composers and [...]

Val’s first full-length solo concerts Nov 11-12 in LA

Vocals, violin, Ableton Live, looping, and some songs from the upcoming one-woman musical ERNEST SHACKLETON LOVES ME – Val is stepping out solo for two evenings at Torrance Cultural Arts Foundation, November 11-12.

Nifty Bren & Val interview in KBPS’s blog, “Culture Lust”

Kathy Diamant did a phone interview with us about the origins of Sleeping Beauty Wakes and what we’re up to–and we ranged far and wide in our conversation. Check it out: http://www.kpbs.org/news/2011/aug/23/groovelily-wakes-sleeping-beauty/ It’s a pretty nice story of how we got where we are, and what we hope for the future.

Nice mention of Wheelhouse and our upcoming writers’ retreat on Playbill.com

Check it out: http://www.playbill.com/news/article/152312-Rhinebeck-Writers-Retreat-to-Nurture-New-Musicals-by-Alex-Timbers-Michael-Friedman-GrooveLily We’re in pretty august company, and it’s nice to read that Gaby Alter and Itamar Moses’ terrific piece “Nobody Loves You” is getting more work time at the Rhinebeck retreat AND is getting a production at the Old Globe. Val and I will be there with bells on–this show kicks butt.

Sleeping Beauty Wakes at La Jolla Playhouse after its McCarter Run…

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 [...]