Cavendish, Prince Edward Island
All day long I've been thinking - "oh, it's Father's Day". And it is. But when I looked at the calendar, I realized it's 20 June - and the 2-year anniversary of the world premiere of "Nine Lives"!
About this time two years ago I was really about on the verge of freaking out - excited, nervous, and thinking about 17 million details. Not to mention I had my own lines and choreography to worry about! But when our Maud and Anne sang "An Epoch In My Life" - because that night was certainly one for me - I watched from the wings and was just overwhelmed with complete and total awe that we pulled it off, and on the date we said we would, too. For whatever else that came before or has since, we did do that!
So this anniversary is an appropriate enough time to mention that, in lieu of doing a full show this year, we are doing something totally exciting and different - The Nine Lives of L.M. Montgomery Concert Tour! I've been way busy with it lately, to the point I had to stop working on the rewrite, but I'm pretty jazzed about it. We're taking a 90-minute concert version of the show - just the music - to all parts of Prince Edward Island from 13-24 July. The west end of the Island, the east end...everywhere in between. And while of course we'll do the familiar songs people have come to know the last 2 years, we decided we'd also throw in a few songs that we recorded for the demo in 2007 which were cut before the premiere. Plus, there are two new songs that are part of this latest rewrite that we're going to try out. So it's kind of a way of showing audiences how a musical develops, and I like taking that different angle of it. We hope y'all can make it!
Oh - also wanted to mention that Haley Batchilder, who was playing Ingénue Maud at this time 2 years ago, is back with us. Audiences really loved her, so it stands to reason they'll love her singing the full version of Maud. We've got a few other previous cast members joining us, too, plus some new faces...and me. Somehow, no matter how hard I try, I always end up in these shows! :) Not that I totally mind, because I do love performing, but I swear, it ends up being by necessity and not by design!
Tickets are $20, and all shows are at 7:30. I could go on explaining on how to get tickets, but all that info is on the web site: ninelivesoflmm.com. The site's in the middle of a major renovation (just one of the many million things I'm doing right now), but the main page as all the ticket info in print and via video. There's also some videos up from last year's show that are pretty spiffy. I've discovered how to implement a photo/video viewing device called a "shadowbox" and I love it! It's a lot of work and coding, but man when it's all done the way it looks makes me all goose-pimply!
That's all for now...happy 2 years to "Nine Lives"! My, they grow up so fast! :)
All day long I've been thinking - "oh, it's Father's Day". And it is. But when I looked at the calendar, I realized it's 20 June - and the 2-year anniversary of the world premiere of "Nine Lives"!
About this time two years ago I was really about on the verge of freaking out - excited, nervous, and thinking about 17 million details. Not to mention I had my own lines and choreography to worry about! But when our Maud and Anne sang "An Epoch In My Life" - because that night was certainly one for me - I watched from the wings and was just overwhelmed with complete and total awe that we pulled it off, and on the date we said we would, too. For whatever else that came before or has since, we did do that!
So this anniversary is an appropriate enough time to mention that, in lieu of doing a full show this year, we are doing something totally exciting and different - The Nine Lives of L.M. Montgomery Concert Tour! I've been way busy with it lately, to the point I had to stop working on the rewrite, but I'm pretty jazzed about it. We're taking a 90-minute concert version of the show - just the music - to all parts of Prince Edward Island from 13-24 July. The west end of the Island, the east end...everywhere in between. And while of course we'll do the familiar songs people have come to know the last 2 years, we decided we'd also throw in a few songs that we recorded for the demo in 2007 which were cut before the premiere. Plus, there are two new songs that are part of this latest rewrite that we're going to try out. So it's kind of a way of showing audiences how a musical develops, and I like taking that different angle of it. We hope y'all can make it!
Oh - also wanted to mention that Haley Batchilder, who was playing Ingénue Maud at this time 2 years ago, is back with us. Audiences really loved her, so it stands to reason they'll love her singing the full version of Maud. We've got a few other previous cast members joining us, too, plus some new faces...and me. Somehow, no matter how hard I try, I always end up in these shows! :) Not that I totally mind, because I do love performing, but I swear, it ends up being by necessity and not by design!
Tickets are $20, and all shows are at 7:30. I could go on explaining on how to get tickets, but all that info is on the web site: ninelivesoflmm.com. The site's in the middle of a major renovation (just one of the many million things I'm doing right now), but the main page as all the ticket info in print and via video. There's also some videos up from last year's show that are pretty spiffy. I've discovered how to implement a photo/video viewing device called a "shadowbox" and I love it! It's a lot of work and coding, but man when it's all done the way it looks makes me all goose-pimply!
That's all for now...happy 2 years to "Nine Lives"! My, they grow up so fast! :)
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