A Midsummer Nights Dream featuring GrooveLily March 20, 2006

A beguiling and offbeat new production of one of Shakespeare's most popular plays. A live band will be on hand to lend a captivating musical element to this divine comedy about two sets of lovers forced to flee their disapproving elders. When the foursome venture into a magical wood inhabited by mischievous feuding fairies and a band of rustics rehearsing a play, chaos ensues and true love veers wildly off course - at least for a night.

An enchanting masterwork that embraces the joy, the humor and the dark side of passion, this Midsummer Night's Dream serves up Shakespeare with a little night music.

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Groovelily

New York City trio GrooveLily inhabits that contemporary space where creative musicians ignore the boundaries laid down by words like rock, folk, jazz, and pop. Intelligent original songs with no shortage of wit connect lush musical textures and soaring vocals with the blazing six-string electric violin of Valerie Vigoda, the lightning-fingered piano of Brendan Milburn, and the joyful drums of Gene Lewin. With backgrounds in classical music, musical theater, jazz, and rock, the three members of GrooveLily are making a new music that's all their own.