Striking 12 was most recently performed by GrooveLily at:
Arena Stage December 2-4 & 10-13, 2009
Portsmouth Music Hall December 5, 2009
Merkin Hall in NYC December 31, 2009
Striking 12 is the concert-with-a-story, band-is-the-actors GrooveLily secular holiday show that put us on the map of the musical theatre world. We wrote it with Rachel Sheinkin, who is now famouser for having won a Tony for the book of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. But we had her first.
“Striking 12″ is indeed a holiday show that has more heart and fun than most of the manufactured entertainments competing for your consumer dollars.
– Frank Scheck, The New York Post
…this modest show is more artfully crafted and engaging than virtually all the standard-mold musicals coming our way these days…The most important ingredient for a successful musical, it has long been acknowledged, is a first-rate score, and this one is terrific. The lyrics are alive with wit and humor, and they don’t shy away from surging emotion either. I was hooked by a single, lovely pair of lines that manages the tricky feat of encompassing both: “I would not dwell on the past/If time would not go by so fast,” Mr. Milburn sings in “Last Day of the Year.” The music is rhythmic pop founded on a rich vein of melody, with Ms. Vigoda’s electric violin adding a distinctive note to the clean but potent arrangements.
– Charles Isherwood, The New York Times
Striking 12 is also being performed out there in the world by other people, in 3-person, 8-person and sometimes even 12-person casts with a 6-piece band and the whole junior high school choir joining in on the big numbers. The show is being licensed by the fine folks at:
Theatrical Rights Worldwide
1359 Broadway, Suite 914
New York, New York 10018
Ph: 866.378.9758 / 646.736.3232
Fax: 212.643.1322
Amateur licensing: licensing@theatricalrights.com
Professional licensing: pro@theatricalrights.com
http://www.theatricalrights.com/
