blog entry at Milburn-Vigoda.com – “Every Seven” Hiatus

Check out the new blog entry up at Milburn & Vigoda – we’re putting our beloved “Every Seven” project on a hiatus for a bit, due to…lots of songwriting.

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American Theatre Magazine article featuring me + my bandmates: “It’s Better With A Band”


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“The American musical’s next wave isn’t jukebox shows and rock stars—it’s a jam session between indie bands and theatre artists making vital new music together.

…the most heartening and transformative trend in American musicals—and we might as well reclaim the word, all the better to broaden its purview—is a swelling wave of hybrid shows created, and often performed, by indie bands and singer/songwriters.”

Full story here!

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blog entry at Milburn-Vigoda.com – “Every Seven” #12

Check out the new blog entry up at Milburn & Vigoda – which includes this week’s  “Every Seven” video + download: “Money & Musicians & Explorers,” the song Ernest and Kat sing together about the financial woes they have in common. It’s a hootenanny!

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blog entry at GrooveLily.com – “Every Seven” #11

Check out the new blog entry up at GrooveLily – it’s this week’s “Every Seven” video + download: “Giving It All Away (Live)” (from WHEELHOUSE). It’s Brendan’s keytar/dance debut.

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blog entry at Milburn-Vigoda.com – “Every Seven” #10

Check out the new blog entry up at Milburn & Vigoda – which includes this week’s  “Every Seven” video: “In The Forest” (Live), our nearly-through-composed, everybody suddenly-in-love-with-the-wron­g-person central scene in our rock-festival musical adaptation of Shakespeare: A LITTLE MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, filmed during our workshop production in LA in December of 2012.

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blog entry at GrooveLily.com – “Every Seven” #9

Check out the new blog entry up at GrooveLily – it’s this week’s “Every Seven” video + download: “Take On The World” (from WHEELHOUSE). This version is our first official bicoastal recording, and one of our favorite songs from the show.

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SHACKLETON workshop and presentation NYC Feb 2013!

Just got back from NYC, where we were working intensely on our show ERNEST SHACKLETON LOVES ME. Now that it is a two-person show (and working out beautifully that way!), there has been a ton of rewriting and “retrofitting” of the music and script to make it work with the second actor. We were lucky enough to have the fearless, ultra-talented and hilarious Will Swenson with us, playing Ernest Shackleton and all the other roles in the piece – and the presentation to potential backers on Thursday went very, very well. We can’t wait to bring a full production of SHACKLETON to the stage, hopefully this year.

Val & Will Swenson brave the Antarctic.

Val & Will Swenson brave the Antarctic.
Photo by Adam Wolf.

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blog entry at Milburn-Vigoda.com – “Every Seven” #7 & #8

Check out the new blog entry up at Milburn & Vigoda – which includes two weeks’ worth of “Every Seven”: these are songs we wrote long ago for Hooked on Phonics’ “Hooked on Bible Stories” project.
(First up is “Get On The Boat,” our take on the Noah’s Ark story, written from the perspective of Noah’s son – produced by Tom Spahn and featuring the wonderful Saturday Night Live horn section. Second is “Welcome To The World,” our song about having a baby, which was particularly close to our hearts at the time since our son Mose had just been born. The newborn child in the song happens to be the baby Jesus, but the emotions are the same.)

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blog entry at Milburn-Vigoda.com – “Every Seven” #6

Check out the new blog entry up at Milburn & Vigoda – which includes this week’s  “Every Seven” video + download: “Eye Of The Storm,” the song Ernest sings to Kat as they drift on an ice floe, in our show ERNEST SHACKLETON LOVES ME.

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blog entry at Milburn-Vigoda.com – “Every Seven” #5

Check out the new blog entry up at Milburn & Vigoda - which includes this week’s “Every Seven” video + download: “Ernest Shackleton Loves Me,” currently cut from (what else?) ERNEST SHACKLETON LOVES ME.

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