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Maggie Gallant

Archive for 2009

Golly basher

Friday, January 16th, 2009

I’ve got a bit of a thing for soundtracks. I blame it on the musical ‘Joseph and his ritzy Dreamcoat’. I was taken to see a production of Joseph when I was somewhere around 10 or 11 and for my birthday that year I got the soundtrack and a little personal record player to play it on. It was the perfect way for my parents to make me stay in my bedroom even longer. Soon I would only come downstairs for meals. Until they installed the serving hatch on my bedroom door. (more…)

Showing off

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

This week’s Austin Chronicle has the FronteraFest Long Fringe previews. This is mine, based off the rambly phone interview I gave a few weeks back. I can’t really complain. I don’t sound like a complete loony. And I got to sign off on the quotes.

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It’s Angle not Angel

Monday, January 5th, 2009

It’s the perfect omen for my show. I went to the FronteraFest website this morning discovered that the title for my show is wrong. Instead of ‘Our Angle in Heaven’ it’s ‘Our Angel…’ All the press material the FronteraFest people have been sending out has the same mistake. I’m now waiting to hear back from someone and to get an explanation, although I suspect it’ll be of the ‘oops, well it looked like it was a typo so we corrected it’ variety. And yes, it does look like a typo, but it’s supposed to. (more…)

My show poster

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

final_cropped1 Here’s the publicity photo for my show, minus all the poster blurb about dates and venues. I’m quite proud of it. Actually I’m proud of my husband who took the photo and did all the graphics and cleaning up work. (more…)