December 15, 2004
Striking 12
BobbiLynn and I saw the Theatre Works production of Striking 12: The GrooveLily Holiday Show tonight at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto -- and loved it!
GrooveLily totally rocks (hey! if you live in the places they're going to tour to, I'd definitely recommend going -- including the Greenwich Public Library, October 29, 2005.) Thank you to BobbiLynn for the amazing CD to I can now listen to them again and again!
It was part retelling of The Little Match Girl, part rock concert, part behind-the-music documentary... felt a little like Rent but less angry and more dependent on a very snazzy viper electric violin. Anyway, I thought it was great -- the music is wonderful, the lyrics hysterical and the band is now one of my favorites. Bravo!
We stayed for the Q&A afterwards, and one of the cool things they talked about was their participation in Raw Impressions Productions short film Festival (RIPFest) where 6 teams come together for 16 days to produce 10 minute musical movies. I love intense collaborations like that!