http://www.pacificsun.com/story.php?story_id=4073
Columns – Friday, July 23, 2010
Behind the Sun: Talk of the town
Hippie schoolmarm brainwashes youth with tale of socialist utopia…
by Jason Walsh
40 years ago
From the Sun vaults, July 22 – 28, 1970
America was “talkin’ ’bout Mill Valley” 40 years ago this week.
San Francisco Chronicle
Leah Garchik
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Composer and singer Rita Abrams was at the center of the reunion last week on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of her hit song, “Mill Valley.” The singers, who were in the third-grade class of the Strawberry Point School when the album was made, have grown up, of course. Seven of them attended the reunion, along with five of their mothers. “It was incredible,” said Abrams of the “Mill Valley” video (which is on YouTube), “watching those carefree little 8-year-olds frolicking around, with their grown-up selves.”
The co-writer of the musical I’m composing, TYPE TALKING, just had the Wall Street Journal name her book one of the Top Five Medical Biographies! She’s not only a writer, an oncologist, and Stanford Professor, but she can sing and act too!
Do not be duped! Even though another show has taken our name, OUR NEW WRINKLES–by Abrams,
Bobrow, and Nachman–is
the one to see. Latest
production coming up in
Cary, North Carolina. Stay
tuned! http://www.ritaabrams.com/pages/newWrinkles.php
Hi Elmo-
Congratulations!
On behalf of Hannah Dorress (Events Producer of Earth Day Marin) and Shelley Champine (of LocalMusicVibe.com) I am pleased to tell you that your and Rita’s song, “Global Warmin”, was the SIlver Winner of the Earth Day Marin Green Song Contest.
Jane Austen has teamed up with Rita Abrams and Josie Brown to create a new Pride and Prejudice musical, agented by Robert Freedman of NYC. Watch for the world premiere!
http://www.prideandprejudicemusical.com/
Our musical comedy revue about aging, NEW WRINKLES, will go onstage again at Chanticleers Theatre in Castro Valley, CA, in their 2011 season, which will come sooner than we think!
My musical comedy revue, MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS, based on John Gray’s book, ran for a year in Las Vegas. Now, finally, it is available for a theatrical premiere. We will know soon where that will be. Stay tuned.
Mill Valley’s Outdoor Art Club audience gave a standing ovation to the sneak preview of my new show with Darlene Popovic–working title, “Where Have I Been All My Life?” We’re ready to take it on the road!
Hi All! Lots going on here at Mill Valley Music:
-POPOVIC SINGS ABRAMS (See below)
-Rita’s book–MILL VALLEY ~ The Little Song that Could – is ready for publication.
-GRANDMA GOT SUNG OVER BY A REINDEER – Rita’s and Dr. Elmo’s Christmas Revue script is complete.
-PRIDE AND PREJUDICE Musical by Rita Abrams and Josie Brown seeking World Premiere!
-CUNARD CRUISE LINES licensing Rita’s songs from MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS musical, for their onboard stage productions
-McGRAW-HILL publishing Rita’s children’s songs
-TYPE-TALKING by Michael Sally and Charlotte Jacobs, an engaging show based on the Myers-Briggs personality test, will feature songs Rita is currently writing.
-and more. Stay tuned.