Hello Friends,
I'm excited to announce the premier of a new show I've been working on with Scott Wittman and Matt Ray. The Drift will premier next week at Joe's Pub and will run for SIX SHOWS ONLY. It's freshly written and I'm really excited to introduce a new original song called "Wild Card". Along my new song I'll be introducing a bunch of new versions of truly beautiful songs written by Billy Strayhorn, Tim Buckley, Jeff Buckley, Joni Mitchell plus a few other surprise favorites. Most of these songs are songs I've never performed before and I've got a great band lined up to help me THROW. THIS. SHIT. DOWN!!! I'm really jazzed about this one
The Drift is inspired, in part, by this quote from Tennessee Wiliam's novella The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone which I read in my dressing room at The Classic Stage Company while working on the Brecht play I did over the winter:
"Going into a room and drifting out of a room because there was no real purpose in going in, nor any more purpose in going back out again. That was the drift. The drift was everything that you did without having a reason. But where was a reason for anything at all. Oh, you could invent a reason, and some were plausible. Some were plausible enough for being accepted the way a polite excuse is accepted for convenience or social policy. But there had been nothing.”
I was feeling bored, uninspired and depressed. So I came home and began to look through notes and ideas I had been collecting for years and years: snippets of books, favorite quotations, poems, unfinished lyrics... I let my mind drift from one glittering bread crumb I'd left for myself to another until I'd written this show. I'm bringing a stack of books from which I, and several of the other songwriters, have taken inspiration. I can't wait for you to see which books I'm going to bring, and I'm hoping you'll be able to see this show which I think is beautiful, poetic and strong!
Love,
Vivian
I'm excited to announce the premier of a new show I've been working on with Scott Wittman and Matt Ray. The Drift will premier next week at Joe's Pub and will run for SIX SHOWS ONLY. It's freshly written and I'm really excited to introduce a new original song called "Wild Card". Along my new song I'll be introducing a bunch of new versions of truly beautiful songs written by Billy Strayhorn, Tim Buckley, Jeff Buckley, Joni Mitchell plus a few other surprise favorites. Most of these songs are songs I've never performed before and I've got a great band lined up to help me THROW. THIS. SHIT. DOWN!!! I'm really jazzed about this one
The Drift is inspired, in part, by this quote from Tennessee Wiliam's novella The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone which I read in my dressing room at The Classic Stage Company while working on the Brecht play I did over the winter:
"Going into a room and drifting out of a room because there was no real purpose in going in, nor any more purpose in going back out again. That was the drift. The drift was everything that you did without having a reason. But where was a reason for anything at all. Oh, you could invent a reason, and some were plausible. Some were plausible enough for being accepted the way a polite excuse is accepted for convenience or social policy. But there had been nothing.”
I was feeling bored, uninspired and depressed. So I came home and began to look through notes and ideas I had been collecting for years and years: snippets of books, favorite quotations, poems, unfinished lyrics... I let my mind drift from one glittering bread crumb I'd left for myself to another until I'd written this show. I'm bringing a stack of books from which I, and several of the other songwriters, have taken inspiration. I can't wait for you to see which books I'm going to bring, and I'm hoping you'll be able to see this show which I think is beautiful, poetic and strong!
Love,
Vivian
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