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Middle school is a tough gig just ask singer/songwriter Jill Sobule.
She poured her experiences into a musical called “F ck7thGrade” that was presented in its initial form in Pittsburgh at City Theatre Company’s 2018 Momentum Festival of New Plays.
Now, City Theatre will premiere a concert film of the musical, available for on-demand streaming beginning on Monday.
Sobule is best known for the 1995 single “I Kissed a Girl” not the Katy Perry hit with the same name and for “Supermodel,” from the soundtrack of the 1995 film “Clueless.”
Her website describes her songs as “at once deeply personal and socially conscious, seriously funny and derisively tragic.”
Screencap from I ll Be Home for Christmas Scott Peterson and Sarah Siplak of The Wreckids Pittsburgh musician Nathan Zoob, member of popular local band Wreck Loose, came up with the idea to crowdsource a holiday song with fellow local musicians just two days ago. Now, just in time for Christmas Eve, he s released the heartwarming cover of I ll Be Home for Christmas, recorded with 14 Pittsburgh musicians in honor of what he says is our holiday apart, since so many Pittsburghers are quarantined at home this year due to rising cases of coronavirus. Over one whirlwind of a day, fourteen Pittsburgh singers and musicians came together (virtually) to make a Christmas card for their community a version of the Holiday classic I ll Be Home for Christmas, a song about dreaming of spending the holidays with your family even