Striking 12 was most recently performed by GrooveLily at the Zipper Factory Theatre on 37th Street in NYC between December 26th and 31, 2008. This season Val and Brendan and Gene will be at:
Arena Stage December 2-4 & 10-13
Portsmouth Music Hall December 5
Merkin Hall in NYC December 31
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/
To hear some songs from Striking 12, visit our songs page.