HeadEye

HeadEye: The Musical hath done landed, probed the minds it came to probe, and rocketed back to the Magellenic Cloud Irregular Galaxy at ludicrous speeds. To say it blurred past like a Corellian light freighter would be an understatement at best, but allow us an attempt to describe this otherworldly event in our best clumsy Earth English language. 

You probably, maybe, most likely (but certainly not impossibly!) can’t imagine all that goes into a year-long production process to plan and put on a musical: the script writing (the edits and the philosophical conundrums!), the costume & set design AND construction (are my feet too big? Will this stay on my head??), the scheduling (all those people daring to have different lives!!!), the rehearsing (during flu and snowstorm season!), the anxiety (does this suck??? Will I blow my lines??? Will this keytar not fly off its strap???), the laughter and tears and whole host of human emotions including the “now what?” depression & confusion that kicks in when it’s suddenly over. 

But lest we stray into lamentation and dark contemplation, this reflection leads to a CELEBRATION! WE DID IT! We put on a gosh-darn all-singing-all-dancing musical! It worked! Not only did people actually come, laugh, cheer, and standing ovate, but the buzz was so good after opening weekend that we SOLD OUT the entire 2nd weekend. That accomplishment struggles to fully set in, but it DID leave us wondering “dang, should we do this again? Encore performance? Woo Broadway or it’s Off sister? SEQUEL???”

It’s a common Earth cliche, but it sure rings true–it’s simply all been a blur. So, we hope your butt warmed a seat and your mind was sufficiently blown. If you were unable to attend, we ARE still flirting with ideas like getting some videos released, so keep a watchful eye out for that possibility. We are ALSO planning on (hoping, scheming, searching for the time) releasing some special recordings of songs from the musical. Yes, the musical was based on the EARTH GIRLS album (available over at our music page HERE: /music ), but one of the many adventures of this musical was writing NEW ORIGINAL MUSIC specific to the plot. 

So really…what’s next? 

Well…we’re just not sure! In fact, we’re, maybe, somewhere around 17% sure. So not a lot. There’s always the talk of the Patreon or some other subscription service (which is where you’d get those recordings and videos from the musical, as well as all future NEW original music!), we’ve already teased the concept for the next album (EARTH GODS, of which the last single “It’s Love” was the first release), and folks just keep asking WHEN IS THE SEQUEL TO THE MUSICAL COMING??!?!? 

And..is the next album a precursor to another musical? 

Are we going to see our beloved Mermutt again???

WHERE THE HECKYL AND JECKYL IS HEADEYE?!?!?! 

Who knows! All we know for sure is these THREE things:

1. You can click on the cast promo photo below to visit our special page about the musical. Or click here: /the-musical

2. HeadEye has been hard at work with DAILY writing sessions of new material. Much of this progress can be seen in the daily vlog series “Music Mornings” over at the Instagram, @HeadEyeMusic.  

And third and finally...

It's BONUS COVERAGE! We’re doing/did CHRISTMAS CITY FOLLIES!!!  

Yep, it turned out to be quite a wild ride for the HeadEye crew this year. To cap off “The Year of the Musical,” we’re reprieving three of the UFO’s crew to drop some crop circles on Touchstone Theatre’s CHRISTMAS CITY FOLLIES! 

If you’ve sadly never had the pleasure of attending this Bethlehem holiday tradition, it could be described as a vaudeville-ish-style, sort-of Christmas skit and/or sketch show (though HeadEye alum director JP Jordan would say “it’s not a sketch show!” and he’d point out it’s not exclusively for practitioners of the gift-giving in the name of Christ holiday), so it’s the perfect fun environment for a victory lap visit from our favorite intrepid space ace and his crew!

HeadEye, Mermutt, and Doctor Roberto will be delivering both keen insights on Earthling holiday behavior, and will also be presenting a BRAND NEW HeadEye original song, “Earthlings at Christmas,” which is EXCLUSIVELY available LIVE at this show! 

So c’mon...get to Touchstone Theatre for a one-of-a-kind, limited run chance to witness this HeadEye content! 

And since time is relative at best and our vortrad cortex runs on temporal anomalies, scroll below for some pix of us at Follies!