December 23, 2007 – 8:52 am
Yesterday morning we had the delightful experience of opening the New York Times Weekend Arts section and seeing our Jon Spaihts/Mark Sanders “band in a proscenium” photo staring back at us. Charles Isherwood, theater critic for the NY Times, has once again elected us “pick of the week” (for December 23-29, 2007). The print version [...]
December 17, 2007 – 8:01 am
G r o o v e L i l y E – N e w s # 5 1 December 2007 A Mostly Monthly E-Newsletter by and about GrooveLily Valerie Vigoda: vocals/violin Brendan Milburn: keys/vocals Gene Lewin: drums/vocals Happy holidays, everyone – and thanks for an amazing 2007. Details on “Striking 12″ in NYC between [...]
November 4, 2007 – 12:25 pm
G r o o v e L i l y E – N e w s # 5 0 November 2007 A Mostly Monthly E-Newsletter by and about GrooveLily Valerie Vigoda: vocals/violin Brendan Milburn: keys/vocals Gene Lewin: drums/vocals “Striking 12″ season is upon us…we just returned from our kickoff weekend in Tacoma, WA, where we [...]
November 13, 2006 – 2:40 pm
The New York Times November 13, 2006 Curdling the Auld Lang Syne With a Pre-emptive War on Cheer by Charles Isherwood Here it comes again. No avoiding it, much as you might like to. As night falls just about seven weeks from today, an air of mandatory gaiety will descend on the city. Confetti and [...]
November 18, 2005 – 2:35 pm
Playbill Online November 18, 2005 GrooveLily’s Cult-Hit Striking 12 Musical Celebrates Holidays in NYC Dec. 3-23 by Kenneth Jones The Manhattan performance space Ars Nova will present a limited December engagement of the holiday-themed musical Striking 12, by [Brendan Milburn, Valerie Vigoda] and Tony Award winning librettist Rachel Sheinkin. Seen recently in engagements around the [...]
Playbill Online March 22, 2005 Live Cast Album of GrooveLily’s Musical, ‘Striking 12′ by Kenneth Jones The live cast album of Striking 12, the new Hans Christian Andersen-inspired musical by the pop group GrooveLily, hits the streets March 22 following an earlier web release. The score was preserved by the PS Classics label, which made [...]
December 27, 2004 – 2:29 pm
Variety December 27, 2004 Legit NOISES OFF by Robert Hofler Can they take heat? NEW YORK — IS THERE LIFE BEYOND Dec. 25? In the world of legit, “Xmas” has a way of turning into a four-letter word come the New Year. For example, “White Christmas” would appear to have everything going for a Broadway [...]
December 26, 2004 – 2:28 pm
San Francisco Chronicle December 26, 2004 Critics Choices 2004 By Robert Hurwitt, Chronicle Theater Critic HIGH “The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets.” Flawlessly performed and luminously designed, the mesmerizing blend of Tom Waits’ richly eclectic songs, William S. Burroughs’ hipster-huckster text and Robert Wilson’s astonishing stagings was a gift of enormous artistic [...]
December 10, 2004 – 2:27 pm
Palo Alto Weekly December 10, 2004 A gem, no matter what you call it By Jeanie Forte TheatreWorks’ “Striking 12″ defies classification but proves highly entertaining. Tradition is fine, but thank goodness we also have innovation and variety — like the very enjoyable and rather unusual show “Striking 12,” currently being offered by TheatreWorks at [...]
December 7, 2004 – 2:24 pm
San Francisco Chronicle December 7, 2004 Sad winter tales told in happy key By Robert Hurwitt, Chronicle Theater Critic Sometimes the brightest gifts come in the strangest packages. One of this year’s more captivating new holiday shows is less the product of a theater company than of a jazzy rock trio called GrooveLily, and not [...]