hello people, goodbye 2014! i have been delightfully in panto captivity for the last 2 months, heading into our last show in a few hours. and then all the next. what’s up for 2015, you ask? well. i am going to be the Arts Club Theatre Artist-in-Residence. what does that mean, you ask? it means a whole heck of a lot more theatre coming out of hille, that’s what. essentially, 2015 looks to be year of writing musicals and recording an album, slowly but surely. those lovely patrons who have ordered the album in advance will be getting a Special Progress Report in the next week, with a Tide-You-Over attachment. in the near future is the push festival, which i have helped to curate. you can find me most nights at Club Push, either in the audience or occasionally on stage. we will also be continuing the new tiny series VHINE UND SZONG at the cultch wine bar, details coming soon for the next show. alright, now i must ready myself for a final turn of being The Orchestra for the east van panto. i will miss singing beyonce and sia songs, for sure. happy new year all!
Reporting before Hurricane Hannah takes us
hello hello! us west coast naifs are kind of hoping for the exciting tail of hannah this evening. we have jack o lanterns at the ready. i have been working in my tempestuous garret for the last month, pencilling away at Onegin. Vancouver can come see the first complete sing through at the Revue theatre on Granville Island this sunday, the 2nd. and hey, niceness, we just won a prize! Onegin has been awarded the Stage West Pechet Family Musical Award. thank you to the playwrights guild of canada and the arts club theatre and all the actors and musicians who have been helping us make this thing.
A few other Vancouver things coming up: i’m starting a new series at the Cultch in the wine bar, called VHINE UND SZONG. just songs, while you drink wine. how bad could it be? and even less badness, david newberry is going to join me on november 5th for the first one. and then on november 14, Aislinn Hunter and i will have a talky singy thing at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum, discussing museums and taxidermy and what have you. there will be wine at that one too. so civilized.
alright, i must get back to constructing a musical, an album, and a mummy costume. batten down those hatches, people.