October 31, 2011 – 4:59 pm
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.
August 24, 2011 – 2:36 pm
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.
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
January 20, 2011 – 1:45 pm
We just returned from a brief, wildly triumphant run of STRIKING 12 at TheatreWorks of Silicon Valley, where we first workshopped the piece in 2003 and had a run in 2004. The houses were packed, the crowds were ebullient and bubbly like a glass of New Year’s champagne, and we raised a glass with a [...]
January 20, 2011 – 1:30 pm
There are a lot of venues that GrooveLily doesn’t play anymore, but places that would be perfect for…a solo performer. Ergo: Val’s new solo concerts and website. http://valerievigoda.com/ Val is putting together a set of songs that she’ll perform alone with violin, harmony box, and Ableton Live running on a laptop. She’s creating loops of [...]
January 20, 2011 – 1:20 pm
Goodspeed Opera House invited me (Brendan), Val and Rachel Sheinkin to come up for two weeks and write whatever we wanted to write, as long as Val and I would consent to play a 45-minute concert at the end of the second week. We used this precious kid-free time (thanks for babysitting, Mom) to work [...]
November 4, 2010 – 2:21 pm
It’s time to sell Val’s 1999 Viper violin. This is the battle-scarred-but-still-in-great-shape instrument that blew over in the wind on its stand at Jones Beach on the Cyndi Lauper tour, and still worked; the axe that flew to Tokyo and played for thousands of screaming Japanese girls; the fiddle that rode in the GrooveLily van [...]