WET THE HIPPO

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Contact: John Gilkey
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WET THE HIPPO RECEIVES BEST OF HOLLYWOOD FRINGE EXTENSION.

July 1, 2013, Los Angeles, CA — Wet The Hippo, nominated for Best Comedy in the 2013 Hollywood Fringe Festival, will extend their sell out run through the month of July.

“This show should simply not be missed …transcendent …absolutely hilarious …beautiful …the whole thing feels like a jazz symphony made up on the spot by Duke, Miles, Coltrane and Fitzgerald. Yes, the members of Wet The Hippo are that good.”
Colin Mitchell, Bitter Lemons

Audience members also wrote passionately about their ex...

Beginning 5:00 PM Friday, June 21 on Santa Monica Blvd, between Cole and Cahuenga

Los Angeles, June 18, 2013: Members of Wet The Hippo will be reading the entirety of Moby-Dick this weekend in West Hollywood to promote their three-week residency at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. As Hippo meets Whale, on the longest day of the year, experience their struggle to endure the great American epic of getting lost in the search, losing the search in what is found, and always, at last, discovering the search again.

The reading will begin 5:00pm Friday evening and continue until the book is done, breaking only to perform their show, Wet The Hippo (7:30 and 9:00pm, Fridays and Saturdays). As unabridged audio books run between twenty-one and twenty-four hours, it is expected the whole task will end sometime very late Saturday or very early Sunday morning.

Working in two-person, four-hour shifts, the nine-person ensemble will station themselves on Santa Monica Boulevard near...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: John Gilkey
email: [email protected]

JOHN GILKEY OF CIRQUE DU SOLEIL TO PRESENT IDIOTS AT 2013 HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL

April 30, 2013, Los Angeles, CA — John Gilkey, longtime Cirque du Soleil lead clown, will present “Wet the Hippo,” an edgy, often improvised show featuring an irreverent troupe of comedy misfits from Gilkey’s ongoing Idiot Workshop, at this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival. The troupe includes Los Angeles actors, improvisers, comedians, and one uninvited performance artist who refuses to leave.

“Wet The Hippo is a collection of rather twisted and unabashed performers who can’t find a ho...