TIC's Plus One Solo Show Festival is at it again, firing up 4 seriously funny solo shows and a great musical guest this summer, July 28 and 29. Get your tickets now!
We recently interviewed our musical guest (and Plus One Solo Show Festival alum) Sarah Aili, whose songs and solo shows have touched our hearts with their honest and heart-wrenching notes. She'll sing three of her songs between the solo shows in the festival, and we thought we'd get a little more insight into what makes her, well, TICk.
TIC: When did you start writing songs, and do you remember the story of the first song you wrote that you really loved?
Sarah Aili: I used to make up songs when I was 3 or 4 years young and perform them for my family, although I can't say that I remember any of those all too well. I'm sure we have a VHS lying around somewhere. I wrote my first song song in my first year of college. A friend of mine taught me a few chords and told me to write a song with them. So during that Winter Break, all I did was hang out with my guitar morning, noon and night and wrote a song! It was called "Sunrise With You" and it was about wanting to see the sunrise with a sweetie by my side. Ahhh, love!
TIC: You've written solo shows (Glory of Love), perform regularly as an actress... what's your next project?
SA: Yes yes! Solo shows, musicals, straight plays and singer songwriter gigs, all! Currently, I'm hunkering down with the continuation of my solo show Glory of Love and performing songs from my recent EP and writing more music all the time.
TIC: If you were going to cast a movie of your life, who would you cast to play your grandmother, about whom you write in Glory of Love?
SA: I'd
cast myself. If it was imperative that I cast someone else to play the
role of my grandmother, I'd choose a young Judy Garland type who has the
ability to carry her core as a Jewish woman raised in the LES by an
immigrant mother who spoke little to no English. In my family, we call
it "pucch."
Join us for 3 of Sarah's original songs and 4 seriously funny solo shows (Rooftops by Jim Chu, The Circle Flying Dance by Myla Pitt, And She Bakes by Daliya Karnofsky and Welcome to the Hallmark Emporium by Megan Melnyk).
When? Saturday and Sunday, July 28 and 29 at 8 pm
When? Saturday and Sunday, July 28 and 29 at 8 pm
Where? Bridge Theatre (244 West 54th Street, 12th floor @ Shetler Studios).
Tickets: $20. Call 212-868-4444 or go to http://www.smarttix.com/Show.aspx?ShowCode=PLU7.
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