“All of the people that were in that are really successful now and they are all touring,” Murphy says. “Because they asked,” she says, laughing.Īctually, Murphy was asked by the festival’s founders - including her husband, Marc Grapey - to do a children’s show with Harry Nilsson’s “The Point,” which she successfully staged at the Old Town School in Chicago in 2008. So why is Murphy premiering “Complicated,” a musical inspired by Poi Dog Pondering’s 1995 album “Pomegranate,” at the Acorn Theater as part of the inaugural Three Oaks Theater Festival instead of one of Chicago’s many theaters? The eclectic rock band Poi Dog Pondering has called Chicago home since 1992. Brigid Murphy found fame in Chicago with her eccentric variety revue “Milly’s Orchid Show,” which she hosted as her alter-ego, Milly May Smithy.
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