September 24, 2008 – 7:48 am
As creators of a brand-new musical, we reserve the right to keep reworking some things. Therefore, since we’re rewriting a little portion of Act I, we’re going to skip over our early draft of that section and go right to the end of the act. Julia is all grown up and out of the house, [...]
September 17, 2008 – 6:55 am
We’re skipping over a little portion of the show here. What happens between the previous song and this one is: HOPE and CHARLES have a son named Buddy, who dies in an accident. After this tragic event and subsequent low period in their relationship, they are eventually ready to try again. They have a daughter [...]
September 10, 2008 – 8:42 am
Happy 2-song Wednesday! After the initial rise and fall of CHARLES and HOPE’s relationship (HOPE has left CHARLES, amateur historian and coffee-shop clerk, out of insecurity/misunderstandings/perceived incompatibility, and he is bereft), CHARLES does his best to get her back. LONG STORY SHORT demo #5: “Fragile As Love” LONG STORY SHORT demo #6: “Unpacking The Suitcase” [...]
September 3, 2008 – 8:44 am
As we release our 15 home demos each week, leading up to Pittsburgh opening night on October 29, there will be several 2-song Wednesdays; today is the first. Something helpful to know about this show, and about the play it’s based on (“An Infinite Ache” by David Schulner): there are sudden, frequent jumps forward in [...]
August 27, 2008 – 8:16 am
This blog entry may bore some of you to tears. If you don’t have any interest in a discussion of song form, I suggest you visit some other part of the site, or go out and play in the sunshine. For the rest of you — this came out of the comments that were posted [...]
August 27, 2008 – 8:02 am
Okay, here’s demo #2. Thanks so much for all your great feedback on #1. To quell any vestigial confusion, let me reiterate that we are *strictly* the writers on LONG STORY SHORT: the characters are an Asian woman and a Jewish man, to be played by the wonderful actors Pearl Sun and Ben Evans. We [...]
August 20, 2008 – 8:51 am
So here’s something we’ve never done before – we’re releasing home demo tapes as we make them. We begin with a collection of home demos from LONG STORY SHORT – Brendan and Val’s brand new 2-person musical premiering in Pittsburgh and Palo Alto this fall. The recordings will appear here song by song *every Wednesday* [...]
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 [...]
August 13, 2008 – 11:35 am
We’re so happy you’ve come to visit our revamped website, officially launching August 18, 2008. Some exciting features: If you’re just getting started with GrooveLily, the New? Start Here… section can be really useful; there’s a FAQ link as well as Listening Suggestions to help you get your bearings. The Songs section is what we’ve [...]
G r o o v e L i l y E – N e w s # 5 7 June 2008 A Mostly Monthly E-Newsletter by and about GrooveLily Valerie Vigoda: vocals/violin Brendan Milburn: keys/vocals Gene Lewin: drums/vocals A contest where everybody (and nobody) won…a little new FREE music to hear right this minute…a workshop [...]