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GrooveLily
GrooveLily is an American musical trio based in New York CityPhil Gallo, March 6, 2008, Variety‘Toy Story’ musical debuts at sea Accessed Sep 13, 2013 notable for creative songwriting in different pop genres, such as rock, folk, jazz, and show tune. The band consists of Valerie Vigoda and Brendan Milburn along with Gene Lewin. A report in ''The New York Times'' in 2004 described the group as an "up and coming trio". According to ''Variety'', GrooveLily was founded by Vigoda.Mark Blankenship, November 13, 2006, VarietyReview: “Striking 12” Accessed Sep 13, 2013 A review of their 2006 performance of ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' described their show as having "plenty of fun" with "original music" from GrooveLily, but noted problems with acoustics.Toby Zinman, March 28, 2006, VarietyReview: A Midsummer Night's Dream Accessed Sep 13, 2013 In 2008, Milburn & Vigoda wrote seven musical numbers for the Disney Wonder cruise ship production of ''Toy Story: The Musical''. In 2002 (and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Val Vigoda
Valerie "Val" Vigoda is an American electric violinist and singer-songwriter. She is best known for writing and starring in musicals including '' Striking 12'' and ''Ernest Shackleton Loves Me'', the latter of which opened Off-Broadway in 2017, touring internationally with Cyndi Lauper, Joe Jackson, and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, and for her one-woman concert "Just Getting Good" which has toured nationally. Early life and influences Vigoda was admitted to Princeton University at the age of 14, withdrawing after one year to complete her classical violin training. She returned after a few years, graduating with honors and a degree in sociology. Career Vigoda founded the musical trio GrooveLily in 1994, originally naming it The Valerie Vigoda Band, along with Brendan Milburn and Gene Lewin. Vigoda has a one-woman show Just Getting Good in which she both sings and plays the six-string electric violin while utilizing live-looping. Her work has received positive feedback, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Striking 12
''Striking 12'' is the music group GrooveLily's off-Broadway holiday musical, based in part on Hans Christian Andersen's 1845 story "The Little Match Girl". The cast recording was released in 2004 by PS Classics PS Classics is a record label that specializes in musical theatre and standard vocals, founded in 2000 by Grammy-nominated freelance producer Tommy Krasker and singer/actor Philip Chaffin. Recent Broadway cast recordings from PS Classics includ .... Track listing # Violin Ascension # Overture # "Thank You Very Much And Welcome..." # Snow Song (It's Coming Down) # "Our Story Begins With A Man..." # Last Day Of The Year # Resolution # "And So, The Man Resolves..." # The Sales Pitch # "But The Woman Is Gone..." # "It Was Terribly Cold..." # Matches For Sale # Say What? # "Lights Were Shining From Every Window..." # Hey La La # Fine, Fine, Fine # "She Had Drawn Her Little Feet Under Her..." # Can't Go Home # "Her Little Hands Were Almost Frozen..." # "The Burning Mat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sleeping Beauty Wakes
''Sleeping Beauty Wakes'' is a musical with book by Rachel Sheinkin, who won a Tony Award for The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and a pop score by composer Brendan Milburn and lyricist Valerie Vigoda, two members of the indie music trio GrooveLily. The show is a twist on the classic Charles Perrault fairy tale of ''Sleeping Beauty''.McNulty, Charles (July 27, 2011"Sleeping Beauty Wakes" (review)''Los Angeles Times'' In this modern-day version, Rose is brought to a sleep-disorder clinic to wake her from her 900-year nap. The musical was presented from March 31 to May 20, 2007 at the Kirk Douglas Theater of the Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles, California as a co-production with Deaf West Theater. It was directed and choreographed by Jeff Calhoun. In the spring of 2011, the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey staged a revised version of the show directed by Rebecca Taichman, which removed all the Deaf elements. The version of the show also ran at the La Jolla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the List of United States cities by population density, most densely populated major city in the United States, and is more than twice as populous as second-place Los Angeles. New York City lies at the southern tip of New York (state), New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban area, urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous Megacity, megacities, and over 58 million people live within of the city. New York City is a global city, global Culture of New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national " newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American media company owned by Penske Media Corporation. The company was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933 it added ''Daily Variety'', based in Los Angeles, to cover the motion-picture industry. ''Variety.com'' features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, cover stories, videos, photo galleries and features, plus a credits database, production charts and calendar, with archive content dating back to 1905. History Foundation ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. As a result, he decided to start his own publication "that ouldnot be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Washington Post
''The Washington Post'' (also known as the ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'') is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area and has a large national audience. Daily broadsheet editions are printed for D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. The ''Post'' was founded in 1877. In its early years, it went through several owners and struggled both financially and editorially. Financier Eugene Meyer purchased it out of bankruptcy in 1933 and revived its health and reputation, work continued by his successors Katharine and Phil Graham (Meyer's daughter and son-in-law), who bought out several rival publications. The ''Post'' 1971 printing of the Pentagon Papers helped spur opposition to the Vietnam War. Subsequently, in the best-known episode in the newspaper's history, reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein led the American press's investigation into what became known as the Watergate scandal, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PS Classics
PS Classics is a record label that specializes in musical theatre and standard vocals, founded in 2000 by Grammy-nominated freelance producer Tommy Krasker and singer/actor Philip Chaffin. Recent Broadway cast recordings from PS Classics include '' Xanadu'', ''The Frogs'', the revivals of '' 110 in the Shade'', ''Pacific Overtures'', '' Fiddler On The Roof'', and ''Nine'', as well as the premiere recordings of ''Grey Gardens'', ''A Year with Frog and Toad'', '' My Life With Albertine'', ''Zanna, Don't!'', ''Through the Years'', '' Striking 12'', ''Only Heaven'' and ''First Lady Suite''. In May, 2006, PS Classics released their first London cast album, the London revival of Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George. In an unprecedented move, it recorded ''Grey Gardens'' twice, replacing the off-Broadway recording with a complete Broadway recording. Having a long-standing association with Stephen Sondheim, the label has released seven albums of work by the composer. They ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warner/Chappell Music
Warner Chappell Music, Inc. is an American music publishing company and a subsidiary of the Warner Music Group. Warner Chappell Music's catalogue consists of over 1.4 million compositions and 65,000 composers, with offices in over 40 countries. History The company was founded in 1811 as Chappell & Co., a British music publishing company and instrument shop that specialized in piano manufacturing on London's Bond Street. In 1929, Warner Bros. acquired M. Witmark & Sons, Remick Music Corporation and Harms, Inc. Tamerlane Music was acquired in 1969. Warner Chappell Music was formed in 1987 in San Antonio, Texas, when Warner Bros. Music Chairman Chuck Kaye led the company to purchase Chappell & Co. from PolyGram (now Universal Music Group) (UMG). In 1988, Warner-Chappell acquired Birch Tree Group, publisher of ''Happy Birthday to You'' and the Frances Clark piano method books. In 1990, Warner Chappell acquired Mighty Three Music, the publishing company of Thom Bell and Gamble ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonus Tracks
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La Jolla Playhouse Bonus Tracks
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