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 again [...]
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 of [...]
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 Paper
Also, our actors [...]
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 fans access to past [...]
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 present, [...]
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 [...]
November 19, 2007 – 9:44 pm
I have had the distinct experience – I was going to write “distinct pleasure,” but it’s pleasure mixed with a bit of squirm-inducing – of having two articles about me over the years in my college’s glossy, quarterly magazine. The first was shortly after I graduated in 1993, and it was a reprint of an [...]
Strings Magazine “Encore” Page
August/September 2007
Dream A Little Dream
Sometimes fairy tales don’t come true-and that ain’t bad
by Laurence Vittes
The world premiere of Deaf West Theatre’s musical Sleeping Beauty Wakes created a sensation when it opened in April at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, California. It wasn’t only the high-energy, dazzlingly creative music and lyrics [...]