Eigg the Musical - Eiggstravaganza
Monday, November 11, 2024

2023 LIVE Performance Cast Album at the Edinburgh Fringe on Soundcloud

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We've added the songs from our 2023 performance of Eigg the Musical at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to Soundcloud. In the final weeks ...
Thursday, August 1, 2024

BANNED Cast and Crew flying past Eigg

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We were invited to the Edinburgh Fringe again this year and as we entered Scotland's airspace I was able to snap this picture. The map o...
Friday, January 12, 2024

2023 BroadwayWorld Denver Awards

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Eigg the Musical recently brought home four 2023 BroadwayWorld Denver Awards, which honor the best in regional productions, touring shows a...
Thursday, November 23, 2023

Denver theatre troupe takes Scotland by storm

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Here's an article in the Denver Post on Thursday, November 23rd, 2023 about our short run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this Summer. ...
Saturday, September 2, 2023

2023 Eigg the Musical Scrapbook

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Creating Eigg the Musical started back in 2017 when an article appeared in the Guardian about the community buyout of the Isle of Eigg. Six ...
Thursday, August 31, 2023

It takes a village to stand up a new musical

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It really does take a village to bring a new musical to life and we wanted to thank all the wonderful people and organizations from all acro...
Monday, August 14, 2023

Eigg the Musical - Reviews from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

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The reviews are coming out on Eigg the Musical: ***** 5 STARS ***** " This show has great potential to be something big. It tells an im...
Sunday, August 13, 2023

List of our Eigg blog posts

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Here's a comprehensive list of our blog posts over the last few years. 2023 LIVE Performance Cast Album at the Edinburgh Fringe on Sou...
Saturday, August 12, 2023

Eigg the Musical - That's a wrap!

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Our closing performance at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival was Saturday August 12th, 2023. What a fun ride, we met so many good people and we...
Thursday, August 10, 2023

Eigg the Musical Performance at Edinburgh Festival Fringe

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Here's our performance of Eigg the Musical at Greenside @ Riddles Court in Edinburgh Scotland on August 10th, 2023. It's a small thr...
Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Opening scene in 360° Greenside @ Riddles Court

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You don't see these sorts of things very often, but it's always interesting to see how these 360 degree videos turn out for stage pe...
Monday, August 7, 2023

Opening night at the 2023 Edinburgh festival fringe

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The official opening of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe was on Monday August 7th, 2023. Here's an image of our cast and crew backstage at ...
Sunday, August 6, 2023

Eigg music ensemble join forces at Ensign Ewert in Edinburgh

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Over the last few years we've been working with Sandy Brechin (accordion extraordinaire) on the various nuances of Scottish Ceilidh musi...
Wednesday, August 2, 2023

Greenside press gala to kickoff the 2023 Edinburgh fringe festival

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Our show was pulled out of a hat for a two minute press preview slot to kickoff the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. When we arrived we were ...
Friday, July 28, 2023

Vintage preview program QR code

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We've been using QR codes to provide access to our show's program and crowd funding campaign online. It's just more convenient, ...
Sunday, July 23, 2023

Preview of Eigg the Musical at Vintage Theatre

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Here's our first public viewing of Eigg the Musical. The show was sold out and the atmosphere was electric. Thank you Denver for all you...
Saturday, July 15, 2023

Sovereignty and Ownership of the Isle of Eigg

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Here's an overview of the sovereignty and ownership of the Isle of Eigg. EIGG FOR SALE    “A perfectly secluded island of the Old World,...
Saturday, July 8, 2023

Eigg the Musical Troupe Photos

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Here's a couple of troupe photos of the Eigg the Musical cast and crew we took near downtown Denver the first week of July. There's ...
Thursday, June 22, 2023

Reform Starts Now!

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In scene 4 Cliff attends the Ceilidh festivities at the Isle of Eigg community center; at some point, he gets fed up with the music and fire...
Friday, June 16, 2023

2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe Program Launch

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The 2023 Edinburgh festival fringe program has officially launched and our show is one of nearly 150 musicals and operas at the festival thi...
Thursday, June 8, 2023

Posters for Eigg the Musical at Riddles Court

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We created a couple of posters for our shows in Edinburgh this year. The first one we call "the land grab", and the second one is ...
Monday, May 22, 2023

Ceilidh dance training, what could go wrong?

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Here's a couple 360° videos of our cast working through some ceilidh dance steps with our local Scottish dance experts. The tunesets are...
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Kickoff celebration for Edinburgh Festival Fringe

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We had an informative kickoff meeting for our Edinburgh performance run on Tuesday.  We met at First Baptist Church of Denver and did a walk...
Thursday, March 30, 2023

Tickets available for Eigg the Musical

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We're live! The Edinburgh Festival Fringe has updated their website and tickets are now on sale for our show Eigg the Musical . The Frin...
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Logo and marketing collateral for Eigg the Musical

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We've been hard at work with messaging and branding for our upcoming show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. To start our art director pu...
Wednesday, January 11, 2023

Mark your 2023 calendars!

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The time has come! We've confirmed our participation in the 2023 Edinburgh theater festival. The show is now scheduled for the first wee...
Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Script development and Cèilidh dance training

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This was our first Cèilidh dance event! Here's what happened; some local theater friends volunteered to learn how to dance at a Cèilidh ...
Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Creating an authentic musical score for Eigg

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Here's a short article about composing for musical theatre works. The publication is based in Los Angeles, but they have a Colorado conn...
Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Yes, we're adding plenty of Ceilidh music!

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We've been hard at work preparing the various musical instrument parts for the Eigg show over the pandemic. It'll be nice to get out...
Thursday, December 31, 2020

We have a NEW Eigg website address!

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We've decided to start using a new website address: eigg.show The one we use today, www.eiggthemusical.com , just seems too long and bor...
Sunday, October 18, 2020

We're adding an Accordion to the Eigg Score

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We're nearing completion of the performance materials for Eigg the Musical and should start some readings soon. April had never written ...
Friday, September 6, 2019

Visiting the Isle of Eigg

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Here's a collection of media clips from my 2019 Summer visit to the Isle of Eigg. On the first day I wandered into the church and record...
Friday, August 30, 2019

Music from the show performed on Eigg!

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After the the festival in Edinburgh I traveled to the Isle of Eigg to take in some of the sites. On the first full day I took a stroll and f...
Monday, May 21, 2018

Introducing Sbani & Alsup

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It's official Mark and April have inked a deal for co-writing "The Isle of Eigg", so without further adieu, here's the wri...
Friday, March 2, 2018

Eigg the Musical early development video

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Here's a short promo video for Eigg the Musical. It's a medley of excerpts from five different songs with several process tidbits sc...
Saturday, February 10, 2018

The joy of a replenished song list!

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Towards the end of the Sisyphus production I started getting back into the mode of composing music. It takes about 6 months to compose th...
Wednesday, February 7, 2018

An interesting logo concept

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We've started thinking about logo concepts for marketing/branding and one idea we have is to form a heart when Ross and Kaja's hands...
Sunday, January 14, 2018

ALPHA1...we have a song list...do you read me Houston...over

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I thought it might be fun to document the steps we take creating Eigg the Musical; after all, this is a "blog" and that's shor...
Thursday, January 4, 2018

A short video clip of the 60 Minutes experience on Eigg

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Here's a short video clip of the 60 Minutes' adventure to the Isle of Eigg. The camera shots are amazing and really capture the beau...
Thursday, December 21, 2017

The Isle of Eigg

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The island of Eigg has a long history of conflict, situated off the coast of Scotland it has always been vulnerable to attack. The natural ...
Thursday, December 14, 2017

First official blog post

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You can take the person out of Eigg, but you can't take Eigg out of the person!
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