December 20, 2011 – 12:34 pm
This just in from The Broadway Blog — “STRIKING 12 Strikes Again”: Their show is an entertaining, one-of-a-kind combo of indie rock concert and touching holiday fairy tale (though secular…the holiday is New Year’s Eve), with enough bah-humbug cynicism and fourth-wall-breaking humor to keep it well out of saccharine territory…It’s a must-see opportunity. – Tom [...]
December 23, 2010 – 1:34 pm
Today’s “Theater Talkback” article is a plea for better holiday theater (“Why Is Holiday Drama So Bad?”). Clearly this writer doesn’t know about STRIKING 12, and it’s time for our show to return to NYC! As of right now (9:30 AM PST), there are about a dozen comments, and two of them mention our show. [...]
October 12, 2009 – 11:40 am
The three of us had a fantastic time attending opening night on Friday at San Diego Rep. The show is in great shape, and the San Diego Union-Tribune agrees. We could not be more thrilled. “Every time I look at you, I turn into me.” It’s the kind of clever, compact line that pops up [...]
October 1, 2009 – 4:24 pm
We just got an unequivocally awesome review in the Tulsa World, and we need to crow about it for a minute. We don’t play as many concerts as we used to, so it feels pretty darned nice to get a review like this (by James D. Watts, Jr.): You hear a GrooveLily song from one [...]
December 21, 2008 – 10:43 pm
We got back to Brooklyn four days ago, after nearly six weeks in California. I think I have Seasonal Affective Disorder; or at least, I’m relatively impatient and irritable. Snow, sleet, freezing temperatures, the overcrowdedness and small annoyances of New York City are not the real issues, though they all hit me like a pail [...]
November 30, 2008 – 7:32 pm
Sorry for the delay on posting these! The Pittsburgh City Paper ran a lovely pair of articles about LONG STORY SHORT; here are both the preview and the review. Pittsburgh City Paper preview article Pittsburgh City Paper review “…a must-see for anyone who loves theater, loves music and loves love.” – Michelle Pilecki, Pittsburgh City [...]
August 19, 2008 – 9:45 am
We were delighted to see this on the front page of Playbill.com this morning: GrooveLily Revamps Its Website and Offers Preview of New Musical Long Story Short By Kenneth Jones 18 Aug 2008 The rock band/musical theatre trio GrooveLily — creators of the cult hit musical Striking 12 — relaunched its website Aug. 17, offering [...]
December 23, 2007 – 9:06 am
One of the better reviews that Striking 12 has ever received comes from SeacoastOnline.com, in which Jeanné McCartin writes about our two performances at The Music Hall in Portsmouth, NH. She writes: The lovely tale is not only well woven for the telling but for optimum impact. Moving you through time, two tales and the [...]
December 23, 2007 – 8:52 am
Yesterday morning we had the delightful experience of opening the New York Times Weekend Arts section and seeing our Jon Spaihts/Mark Sanders “band in a proscenium” photo staring back at us. Charles Isherwood, theater critic for the NY Times, has once again elected us “pick of the week” (for December 23-29, 2007). The print version [...]