Quantum Physics: The Musical

My apologies...apparently Blogspirit, our host, was attacked over the weekend of October 14, and so our photos aren't yet back online. We're working on it. Hopefully they will be able to be resolved soon. Thanks for your patience.

Look on the side panels of this page to find information about the show - song clips on the left, reviews and pictures on the right. "Recent posts" include reviews, from newspapers and audience members, and some peeks behind the scenes written by your intrepid blogger, Vanessa (me, aka composer, co-writer & producer). Enjoy!

It's five days after our last show and I'm beginning to recover enough to post here. Before I could recover I had to pay some attention to my almost three-year-old daughter who has been incredibly patient and happy despite her parents (the creators of the show) being so busy. Ian and I (the parents/creators) are very happy with how the show was received - the buzz around the city and the Fringe in particular was great, and audiences would come out just shining and smiling. Several cases of husbands, who are usually dragged to theatre they don't enjoy, who were ecstatic that our show spoke to them. Lots of physicists came, and laughed at the physics jokes. Theatre folk came, regular folk came (we call them "civilians"). There were jokes for everyone. Even my jokes got laughs, which pleased me to no end, because I always think Ian's the funny one.

I did have a bit of post-show letdown, which is what happens after all the excitement is over, and you look around and realize how much housework you have to do.

But we're looking at theatre's around the country to talk to about this show.

Please, post a comment when you come by, we'd love to hear from you! Just click on "comment", below.

Arts Rational ranked us the #1 Fringe show on their "Best of Fringe" radio program on September 15!

We keep receiving written raves from our audience members.

"We're still riding high on the fun we had last night. [My daughter's] singing 'Quarks' and we're killing ourselves laughing about quantum physics being "a bunch of hoofala". I consider this show a service to humanity; tour it please." Lisa B., New Westminster.

"My wife and I were at the Friday show and loved it! Thought the cast was strong, music great and choreography just fine. (despite what one critic said). It's a show for all ages (we're 60ish, but 'Young at Heart')" - Stuart.

"The songs were definitely the highlight of the play, which is fortunate since it is a musical. They were largely up-beat with lyrics rich in nerdy references to physics, and Star Trek alike. . . All of the cast did a terrific job! . . . Leon Willey, and Amy Wallis stole the show. Combine all of this with Leon's uncanny physical comedy, Amy's unbelievable voice, and their mutual good looks and you've got quite the power house of entertainment. . . All told it was a fantastic play and a very enjoyable way to spend 75minutes. I laughed, I giggled, I may have even guffawed. " - JonBen (posted on his webblog at http://jonben.blogspot.com/2005/09/wave-collapsed-and-state-is-good.html)

I just found this on a website - reviews of our show from some audience members!

Their group's rating of our show: "100% positive"

"Hi-larious! The actress playing Lt. Gwen Shapley is quite the talented little pixie."

"Well, this was a very clever, funny performance. The music was lively, and the perfomers were good. I thoroughly enjoyed it."

" I enjoyed the musical tremedously (enough to wish I could have afforded a soundtrack). . . the event was both quite cool and worthwhile. (I thought the lyrics of many of the songs quite clever)"

"The musical was funny, sweet and educational in turn."

"Funnier than I thought it would be!"

"I learned some interesting "smart people" stuff! Fun event."

from http://firefly.meetup.com/12/events/?eventId=4760866&action=pastdetail