Grant Tilly: News

I think I have finally finished moving into the new place, but everything is still in boxes, maybe that's to save some time, since I'll be moving out of this sublet in September again. But for now the house is beautiful, and the summer is treating me very well. The musical is coming together nicely, and I'm looking forward to doing some travelling in mid july. We've also been having some Overseas visitors to the website (I have this nifty thing where I can see where the traffic is coming from) so Hello and welcome, however you stumbled on the site, I'm glad you did.

going to be out of Toronto for a week or two, to visit home, the family, the dog, and maybe a buddy of mine in the mountains. Nothing better than Alberta in the Spring (that is when it co-operates and has a Spring) Looking forward to it and seeing a few old friends and coming back recharged. I'll be putting some new music on as well, so stay tuned...

Seems like everyone I know is in a constant state of change right now. People moving, jobs lost, and found, people passing through town, but I'm starting to get used to it, and the writing is coming along well. Also I've been spending some time volunteering for DQ '05. What's that? DQ is an annual fund raising event to benefit Casey House, featuring the city's best Drag Queens. I've been at some of the rehearsals, and I can tell you the show will be fantastic. So if you haven't got your tickets, get to it. Go to dqonstage.org for more information, the show runs April 29th - May 7th.

The internet service in the house is down (and Bell is on strike so that's not going to change for awhile) so I'm now at the Rhino in Parkdale having a beer. Spring is here, it's a beautiful day, and I'm feeling okay about being unemployed as I've started getting into writing again. Also, due to a nice little governement Grant (yes, I know, Grant got a Grant... it's funny, no really) I've got a bit of time to finish a musical that I've been working on for a couple of years. It's been nice to focus on writing for the last week, if it also drives me a bit crazy wrapping my mind around the whole project, so getting out of the house is a good thing. Also, I'm going to be getting out for gig this Friday. check the calendar section and drop by if you can.

Bat Boy will be closing this March 19th, so if you haven't seen it yet be sure to make it down to the Bathurst Street Theatre before Saturday night. Tonight I sat in the theatre and spied on the audience (you can do that as an understudy) and can tell you that they had a great time, so don't take my word, take theirs.

So... looks like starting Sunday I am back to being a Singer/Songwriter. I'll be setting up some gigs soon, so if you'd like to be know when they come up leave your email and I'll contact you. Cheers, Grant

I thought I'd try putting new music on the site about every month or so, so this month it's another one from the Cloning show. A nice love duet called "Love will keep us together", all sweet and stuff until you see the show and realize it's being sung by a Father/Daughter who don't know they're related. I've been getting a great response from "My God's Better..." so I think it gets to stay another month too. And the pictures from the Cameron house gig last month are up, check the photos section to have a look.

I've got one month with my arranger before he takes off out of town, so I'm trying to make some major inroads on the next project I'm working on. Hope to have some examples for the web in awhile. Other than that, let's hope for a healthy cast.

A crazy week, and I am glad to have made it through in one piece. Wednesday we actually had a cancelled show after three cast members were too sick to perform, and with only two understudies... you do the math. Though it has been known to happen that a show is pushed through, thanks to a generous producer that didn't happen. So, we're brought in to rehearse and did a lot of work on the guy's role we thought would be out the next day. The next morning we find out that he's fine, but the other guy has pnemonia. So with an afternoon's rehearsal in the new role I'm onstage that night, and thanks to a fantastic cast and crew I made it through. It was only after the show I was told reviewers from both NOW and EYE were in the audience... I must admit to a certain sense of dread, having to jump into a role is never fun (especially if you didn't have the luxury of being with the cast during their rehearsals), but good friends are telling me this will just make a good story in a couple years. I agree.

Thanks to everyone who made it out on Tuesday to the Cameron House, the night was a success and the band was paid. Norbert is putting some photos together and I should have them online soon. No gigs coming up for a month or two now though, I'm going to be devoting a lot of time to understudying the 6 roles in BatBoy and becoming minorly schizophrenic.

I've been in living for Toronto for about half a year now, and since my original web guy Jesse is still in Calgary it seems like it's time to make a new one that I can update from here. So thanks to Jesse for all his help on the earlier one, and let me know what you think of this one...