Eddie Biggins
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Eddie Biggins

Medford, Massachusetts, United States | SELF

Medford, Massachusetts, United States | SELF
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"Summer Shorts 2003"

"Summer Shorts 2003"

The Summer Shorts at The Hovey Players' Abbott Memorial Theatre has become a major showcase for theatrical talent of all sorts in this area. This week, on Thursday through Saturday nights, the Players will bring alive Fifteen new and original scripts, Nine new songs, and Two different vest-pocket (or maybe the phrase should be "watch-pocket") new musicals. The three different slates of shows were all doing S.R.O. business all three nights last week, and The Shorts is the hottest ticket in town. If you don't already have a firm reservation for tickets, you might get to the Abbott Really Early and join a long line of people hoping for a cancellation or two. But, if you haven't arranged tickets, probably the only way to find out what you will miss is to read these reviews.

… I am ill-equipped to pass judgement on music, but "On A Three Mile Stretch of Sand" (written & performed by Ed Biggins, Jr.) blew me away. It's a hymn to the seaside charms of Revere Beach!

…I guess what I'm saying is the "pot-puree" of the Hovey Summer Shorts is a gold-mine of surprises to suit every taste.
But each night this week, get there an hour early and pray for a cancellation to become one of the 52 lucky people filling seats!

www.theatermirror.com July 2003
- Theatermirror.com


"Summer Shorts 2004"

“Summer Shorts 2004”

The "Summer Shorts" anthology-shows at The Hovey Players' Abbott Memorial Theatre have always been full of surprises and this year's 8th Annual edition is better, and more surprising than ever. First of all, it moved out of its cramped 52-seat birthplace into the Turtle Lane Playhouse, where it had room enough to breathe and to seat half the audience at cabaret-style tables. Then the 21 short plays --- the range of which in styles and subjects and genres demoted The Boston Marathon to Bronze --- were separated by a dozen new "show-tunes" telling stories and breaking hearts, and each night began and ended with a "mini-musical" that would knock your socks off. [And why is this review in Past Tense? Because next week-end's repeat performances, I hear, are already selling out!]

A word about the songs:
There is a sort of celebration of the ordinary in this set of new originals, with titles like… "Almost An Affair" [by Eddie Biggins]; still, each one is that sort of "story-song" that would be called a "show-tune" if there were a show for it to be "from". In the age of what I still think of as Noisy Rock Music, it's easy to lose sight of the fact that people still ARE writing songs like them anymore. And bravo for the "Summer Shorts" for finding them and giving them to appreciative ears.

www.theatermirror.com
July 2004 - Theatermirror.com


Discography

Parodos: "Night"
Parodos: "Haunted"
(both Parodos albums are available for download from iTunes, Amazon Mp3, Rhapsody, Napster and eMusic)

"In the Throes of Fashion"
(available as a free download at www.mp3.com/artist/eddie-biggins)

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Eddie has experimented with many styles of music over the years. He has written three musicals, released two albums of electronic new age and world music under the name 'Parodos' and performed as a singer-songwriter on many stages in the Boston area. In addition to performing solo, he currently plays in the popular Irish band "Jug o' Punch" at the Old Timer Restaurant in Clinton MA (as well as at other venues.) His experience in these differing realms gives him the versatility to entertain many different types of audiences.