The producers of MISSED CONNECTIONS: A CRAIGSLIST MUSICAL launched an Indiegogo campaign (www.indiegogo.com/projects/missed-connections-a-craigslist), to help fund the US debut of MISSED CONNECTIONS. 
Directed by Phillip George (Forbidden Broadway) and choreographed by Richard J Hinds, Missed Connections: A Craigslist Musical is a musical based on real Craigslist Ads – “Your Personal Ads Set To Music” written by Canadian Humorist Bill Richardson, Indie Folk Artist Veda Hille and Amiel Gladstone.
“A few years ago, with not much more than fun in mind, we hauled some Craigslist ads free of their moorings. Veda Hille set them to music. With Amiel Gladstone, she put together a cast of Vancouver singing actors and performed the show as a 20-minute musical. It was meant to end there. What we didn’t count on was that, even in that hurried first go-around, we would find the evidence of so much tenderness, folly, and longing. There was more there than we suspected or knew. It was funny, but it was compelling. So, we kept on working, adding, subtracting, rearranging, as one does.”- Bill Richardson
The show was developed as Do You Want What I Have Got? A Craigslist Cantata and premiered at the Arts Club Theatre (Vancouver, BC, 2012). Craigslist was originally produced in a 20 minute version by Theatre Replacement as a co-commission with PuSh and Theatre Conspiracy (Vancouver, BC, 2009). It has since had productions in Toronto, ON, Calgary, AB, and Edmonton, AB. Its previous incarnations have garnered the piece the Jessie Award-Outstanding Composition or Original Script and a Jessie Award Nomination for Outstanding Ensemble Performance in an Original Musical. “This show is intoxicating, wildly creative, wonderfully witty and just downright fun.” — Nicole Fairbairn, The Scene in Toronto
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WHO’S WHO
PHILLIP GEORGE (Director) Off-Broadway: Shout!, Forbidden Broadway Alive and Kicking, Forbidden Hollywood, Whoop-Dee-Doo (Drama Desk Award, Best Musical Revue), The Road to Qatar (York Theatre Company), Forbidden Broadway Cleans Up Its Act, Forbidden Broadway Strikes Back, Forbidden Broadway 2001: A Spoof Odyssey (Drama Desk Award, Best Musical Revue), The Remarkable Ruth Fields (1993 Bistro Award, Best Musical Best Director), When Pigs Fly (as Assoc. Director to Mark Waldrop), Blackout (Amas), Bring Me a Dwarf, Miss Pretty Hard (Dance Theater Workshop),Forbidden Broadway 1988–93. London: Kean (nominated for Evening Standard Award, Best Musical), Forbidden Broadway (The Albery, West End & Menier Chocolate Factory), Shout!, Frankly Scarlet (co-author with Peter Morris); Listen to the Wind, Much Revue About Nothing, Forbidden Broadway, The Famous Five, The Arcadians, Escape from Pterodactyl Island (1999 Michael Steward Award). Regionally: Forum (5th Ave Theatre, Seattle), Best Little Whorehouse, Footloose, Return to the Forbidden Planet, Annie Get Your Gun, The Secret Garden (Paper Mill). As a playwright he is currently hard at work on Thrilling Pulp!
RICHARD J. HINDS (Choreographer) is currently the Associate Director for Disney’s Newsies! (Broadway/National Tour). He was the Associate for Here Lies Love (NYC/London), the Broadway revival of Jekyll and Hyde and Il Divo: A Musical Affair featuring Heather Headley. Richard’s directing/choreography credits include Gateway Playhouse, Ogunquit Playhouse, Flat Rock Playhouse, Capital Repertory Theatre and Kansas City Repertory Theatre. Television credits include Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, America’s Got Talent, The Bethenny Show and Good Afternoon America (featuring Liza Minnelli). Richard has been the Associate on 9 to 5 (National/UK Tour), Disney’s High School Musical (National/International Tours), Up Here, Come From Away (La Jolla Playhouse), A Christmas Story (Kansas City Repertory Theatre/5th Ave Theatre), The Last Goodbye, The First Wives Club (The Old Globe), Pippin (CTG and Deaf West), A Wonderful Life (Paper Mill Playhouse), and Samsung Unpacked (Radio City Music Hall). www.richardjhinds.com.
VEDA HILLE (Composer/Playwright) has been writing songs, making records and playing shows all over since 1992. She has released 14 albums, all available through her website: vedahille.com. You can also keep track of her various projects there: rock songs for children, an opera about pine trees, complaints choirs, a reworking of a Tchaikovsky opera, and of course always a new record and show coming soon.
AMIEL GLADSTONE (Playwright) is a West Coast-based writer and director. As a director, his productions have been both site-specific in unusual venues and in traditional theatres including numerous world premieres for companies such as Alberta Theatre Projects, Acting Up Stage Company, Arts Club Theatre Company, Belfry Theatre, Caravan Farm Theatre, Factory Theatre, PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, Pacific Opera Victoria, Theatre SKAM, Theatre Replacement, Touchstone Theatre, Vancouver Playhouse and Vancouver Opera. As a playwright, his plays have been produced by the National Arts Centre, Alberta Theatre Projects, the Belfy Theatre, Touchstone Theatre, Caravan Farm Theatre, Solo Collective, Western Edge Theatre, and Theatre SKAM.
BILL RICHARDSON (Playwright) is a writer and broadcaster. His books include Bachelor Brothers’ Bed and Breakfast, winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humor, and After Hamelin, a novel for children that won the Silver Birch Award. His radio documentaries have twice been award winners at the New York Radio Festival. House of Anansi will publish his new book, “The First Little Bastard To Call Me Gramps,” in the fall of 2015. He lives in Vancouver, B.C. (population 605,000) and Holmfield, Manitoba (population 14).