May 19, 2010
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Congratulations to Stephin Merritt, the recipient of
an Obie Award
for his music and lyric contributions to the 2009 Off-Broadway
musical Coraline. The 55th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards
were announced at a ceremony held earlier this week at New York's
Webster Hall.
The categories for the Obies are left intentionally informal, "to
recognize persons and productions worthy of distinction in each
theater season," according to its presenters. The Obies are
chaired by the Voice's chief theater critic Michael Feingold and
a committee of judges.
Merritt will perform his latest project, a score he has written
for the classic film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, in a
screening at the Seattle International Film
Festival on June 9, with David Hegarty on the organ
and Daniel Handler (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket and Merritt's Gothic
Archies cohort) on the accordion. For further details,
visit siff.net.
Strange
Powers, the new documentary about Stephin Merrit
and The Magnetic
Fields, will also be screened at the festival, June 6
and 7, and begins its theatrical release in New York, Los
Angeles, and other select North American cities this October.
Learn more at strangepowerfilm.com.
