(BOULDER, COLORADO) It seems there's just no love for buskers. To celebrate the beginning of just the 3rd year of BuskerAlley.com, an announcement of Busker Alley - The Movie to start filming this summer was made official by producers Jack Carter and Zoobie at the Boulder Cafe July 4th, 2008. Unlike previous movies of buskers and street performers, Busker Alley - The Movie will not portray the classic busker love story gone wrong. There's just too much talent.

"Yep...We got very tired of this overused format. Almost every studio film ever made features the busker falling in love with another. It goes all the way back to the silent film "The Street Singer" and always with the same result," said Jack Carter of the film.

"This movie will represent the finest in busker comedy mainly because there isn't any. Instead of love, we decided to write Busker Alley to be an outrageous, wild, and hilarious escapade featuring Bob the BuskerBot. He takes an amazing journey through BuskerLand interacting with lots of real buskers," Zoobie added.

Zoobie, himself a busker for nearly 20 years, will direct the effort. Exclusive distribution will be on www.BuskerAlley.com with the movie in six chapters to be streamed over the internet. This is yet another in long series of firsts developed from the initial Busker Central reference site Zoobie created in 2005 (Princeton Review).

"In the film, Bob leads a life of quiet desperation then hears his calling to the wide wide world of busking. It is here he finds himself among the trees, the flowers, the children, and the police."

"We can't reveal the crazy plot but let's just say it's a study, refinement, and result of standing on the shoulders of giants in the industry...but with several funny twists and turns. But you'll find no love story here except the pure love, humor, and joy that resides deep within the art of busking."

"It's really quite a technological achievement...to be able to create, direct, then distribute this Indy production right on the web. It's great. Independent film is exploding and this is indicative of the art now being produced that may have never been created without the internet."

The film will première on www.BuskerAlley.com next year. The production will début in Boulder, Colorado and be available on Blu-ray and DVD.

(HOLLYWOOD) A stunned Glen Hansard was already in Heaven. He had just performed his nominated song center-stage at the world-famous Oscars. Although the odds were against his winning, the magic of the moment was more than enough to satisfy his artistic prowess.

Here was an Irish lad at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles waiting for the proclaimed winner in the wildest contest ever conceived. His dream was in full bloom as he stood starry-eyed out at the audience filled with famous Hollywood writers, producers, directors, and even stars.

Hansard flashed back to the time he was a busker on Dublin's Grafton Street for five years before forming the band The Frames. Although a rough and tumble lifestyle for a mere muse, his homeland was now on the other side of the world. He had made it to America and was honored to be here.

Then, it all turned into a fuzzy blur as Hansard heard "Falling Slowly" announced as the winner and suddenly would be speaking to the Hollywood elite. As he returned to center-stage to accept his Oscar, through the fog he realized an incredible thing had happened. A bloody busker had just won an Academy Award for Best Original Song from the Indy film "Once".

"Thanks! This is amazing! What are we doing here? This is mad! We made this film two years ago. We shot on two handycams. It took us three weeks to make. We made it for a hundred grand. We never thought we would come into a room like this and be in front of you people. It's been an amazing thing. Thanks for taking this film seriously, all of you. It means a lot to us. Thanks to the Academy, thanks to all the people who've helped us, they know who they are, we don't need to say them. This is amazing! Make art. Make art! Thanks!"

Hansard was ushered offstage where a huge round of paparazzi awaited his presence. The dream was just starting when he thought it was ending. "The Oscar for Best Original Song goes to...Falling Slowly...words and music by Glen Hansard" kept playing over in his head. He was now famous. His film was famous. Speilberg had mentioned it at Cannes. He had made Oscar history. Now all that was left was the red carpet receptions and floating through the mist all the way home to the Emerald Isle.

Glen Hansard's accomplishment is an inspiration to us all. Strive to be the best at what you do best.

(NEW YORK) The 2008-09 season will finally bring the musical Busker Alley to Broadway.

Busker Alley, which has tried unsuccessfully to open for almost forty years, will get it's long overdue début next summer season. The announcement was made November 30th, 2007 by the producers on the Queen Mary 2. To compliment and harmonize this historic event, the new Busker Alley HD for Blu-ray disc will be officially released on this website Grand Opening night!

The original Busker Alley was a musical adaptation of St. Martin's Lane, a vintage 1938 London film depicting buskers and street performers entertaining the masses. Along the winding way, two buskers fall in and out of love on their way to glory.

Songs include "Busker Alley" and "She's got a way" written by Academy Award winners Richard and Robert Sherman of "Chim Chim Cher-ee" fame. With the Grand Opening, Busker Alley will take center stage and, once again, bid for the success it has always hoped to have on the Broadway stage.

Starring Tony Award winner Jim Dale as "stagedoor Charlie" Baxter, an aging St. Martin's Lane busker. He adopts a street urchin then watches his love go from street performing all the way to the St. Martin's Lane Theatre in London's performing arts district. Also starring Tony Award winner Glenn Close and a talented cast of professional dancers not to be missed.

Picture Gene Kelly swinging around the lampost in "Singing in the Rain". Now picture eleven lamposts with eleven colorful buskers singing and swinging around the set of Busker Alley! With a stage set to yesteryear thrown in for good measure, it promises to be a rollicking good time.

The return of Busker Alley's official Première marks one of the first times where all production numbers have been written decades earlier. The musical has suffered no less than five name changes.

The scene of the first scheduled opening was the St. James Theater. Artist Leroy Neiman was comissioned to paint a forty foot mural where he depicted a busker on stilts (left). Upon completion and told the original production's opening had just been cancelled, he remarked, "It just breaks my heart."

You can see Tommy Tune and the cast of "Buskers" perform part of the title song at the 1995 Tony Awards here.

Real buskers had actually been booked to kick off the Broadway Première that never happened in 1995. These original buskers will once again reprise their performances...this time "live".

BuskerAlley.com is joining in celebration and awareness of buskers and performing artists around the globe. Stay tuned for the official HD disc release, press, pictures, and songs of the Sherman Brothers in the long-awaited début of Busker Alley on Broadway!