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The Bloody Blackbeard Band, Remember My Name from michael mcqueen on Vimeo.

The show closes this Sunday. Tickets can be purchased here.

I happened to turn on NPR earlier today just prior to The State of Things running an interview with Laurelyn Dossett and Preston Lane about Bloody Blackbeard. Crazy luck. After some chit chat about the premise of the play and how it was conceived, they then proceeded to play a few cuts off the show album and Bam! there’s Molly singing:

She’s totally becoming this hyper-local rock star / performer extraordinaire; exactly the type of lifestyle she wants to live, but she’s far too humble to recognize its existance as fact.

That’s what blogging boyfriends are for, I guess.

Anyway, rumors have been circulating around town that a few Broadway producers have shown interest in Preston’s latest gem, so things could interesting really quick for Preston, Laurelyn and any number of the original actors or musicians.

Fun times ahead.

You can buy tickets here.

When I saw Molly after her technical practice ended yesterday, she let loose a quote through a grin that’ll ring true for the next six weeks or so:

My days are no longer my own.

Arrgh!

That pirate grunt was mine, for after her eight hour walk-through rehearsal today of Triad Stage’s Bloody Blackbeard, I’d have to agree with her perspective.

Neither she nor I are complaining in the least — Molly’s been looking forward to being a featured musician, singing and playing original music by Laurelyn Dosett in the Preston Lane original since last summer, so I am too — but the reality of her schedule over the next six weeks has definitely hit home.

From June 8th until July 6th, she’ll be performing seven shows per week at the quaint theater down on S. Elm (you can purchase tickets online), so she’ll be on a hiatus from performing with her band on weekends until mid-summer or so.

She’s also taking a break from playing her recurring Tuesday night set at M’Coul’s Pub, which has turned out to be quite the community draw with Todd “Mystkdog” Verts and Jennifer “Guitar By Fire” Dalton practically transforming into full-fledged musicians before our very eyes.

A bit of good news for fans — in preparation for the play, Molly headed back into the studio to record a few new songs to add to her best selling debut, Girl With Slingshot. And as she hit the studio, I hit the drawing board to come up with a new album design for the professional run we’re about to invest in with Discmakers.

Here’s what I sent off last week:

It’s a bit different vibe from the original cover, but thanks to the photographic genius of Michael Dunn, we’re both really happy with the results. Molly will be selling the CD’s at the play and will have them with her once she returns to gigging.

With the craziness of scheduling studio time and cat herding musicians into collaborating, Molly wasn’t able to get the three new tracks finished in time to be available in the lobby of Blackbeard so this short-run will consist of the previous ten tracks. We’ll include a sticker on the cover of the abbreviated copy with directions for downloading the additional tracks next month when they’re available, and then print a larger run that includes the full 13 tracks sometime in the fall.

This is going to be a nutso summer, but a memorable one.