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Due to scheduling conflicts, GrooveLily will NOT be performing Striking 12 this year at the Metropolitan Room. Despite this, we’re thrilled to announce that next year, 2013, will be THE FINAL YEAR OF GROOVELILY PERFORMING STRIKING 12. Mark your calendars–next holiday season will be your last chance ever (barring, say, Lincoln Center or Carnegie Hall humbly requesting our presence) to see Val, Brendan and Gene do their perennial holiday hit. Stay tuned for news of venues for our STRIKING 12 farewell tour next year.
Each year since 2007 there have also been licensed productions occurring *without GrooveLily* in the cast, throughout the US and internationally. As we learn of any happening this coming season, we’ll list them here.
MAINE PREMIERE, Nov 14-Dec 9, 2012: Striking 12 presented by Good Theater, in residence at the St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress Street, Portland, ME. Starring Kelly Caufield and Ryan Duncan (Broadway’s Shrek and original cast of Altar Boyz), directed by Brian P. Allen with musical direction by Victoria Stubbs. Tickets ($15-$30) available by calling the Good Theater box office 207-885-5883. For more information go to the Good Theater website at www.goodtheater.com.
MINNESOTA PREMIERE, Nov 30-Dec 16, 2012: Bloomington Civic Theatre presents Striking 12 at the Black Box Theatre November 30 through December 16. This Bloomington Civic Theatre performance will be the Minnesota debut of Striking 12, the first musical performed in the Black Box Theatre and the directorial debut of Christine Weber. For tickets, call the Bloomington Theatre and Art Center Box Office at 952-563-8575, or online at btacmn.org
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/