Tag Archives: Midsummer

All shall be well.

May 21, 2010 – 5:50 pm

Midsummer is consistently one of our favorite GrooveLily albums, if we’re allowed to pick favorites–partially because we got to REALLY stretch out with the music, and play with themes and variations in a way that we don’t usually get to–and partially because the experience of MAKING the show was so sublime. One of the sublime [...]

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A Little Midsummer Night’s Interpretive Dance

November 28, 2009 – 7:22 pm

Back in 2006, when we spent the better part of six months working on writing and then rehearsing and then performing A Midsummer Night’s Dream with director Tina Landau, we made some lasting friendships with some of the actors. Notably, we had to collaborate closely with Jesse Nager (who sang so gloriously on our recording [...]

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The Daily Record – best of 2006

December 31, 2006 – 2:41 pm

The Daily Record December 31, 2006 High points of ’06 Morris area stages served up great theater by William Westhoven Writing this traditional end-of-the-year column is never a chore. What better way to celebrate the holiday season than to sit back and revisit all the great theater you’ve seen over the past 12 months — [...]

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The New York Blade – review

May 8, 2006 – 2:39 pm

[Midsummer Night's Dream] is built around the jazz-rock band GrooveLily, and their luscious stylings recall a smooth but hard-driving blend of Roxy Music and Herbie Hancock, quite suitably ornate and theatrical. – Jonathon Warman, The New York Blade, May 8, 2006

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The Daily Record – review

March 31, 2006 – 2:38 pm

The Daily Record March 31, 2006 McCarter dreams up a Shakespearean extravaganza by William Westhoven Shakespeare challenged our imaginations some 400 years ago with “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Now, director Tina Landau is challenging our senses with an early spring “Midsummer” at Princeton University’s McCarter Theatre that leaves dazzling in the dust and rises to [...]

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CurtainUp – review

March 26, 2006 – 2:37 pm

CurtainUp March 26, 2006 A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Simon Saltzman William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is believed to have been written around 1596 for an actual wedding festivity of a prominent person. No one can agree on whose wedding, but one thing is fairly certain, the guests could not have had a better [...]

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