WET THE HIPPO READS MOBY-DICK, THE WHOLE THING, WITHOUT STOPPING (EXCEPT TO PERFORM THEIR SHOW)

WET THE HIPPO

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 the Complex Theater where their show is performed.

See and maybe even help them read, share their refreshments, and then see the show, Wet The Hippo.
As Colin Mitchell of Bitter Lemons has said:
“This show should simply not be missed. This is what Fringe is all about, folks, that thing you can’t see anywhere else. …the evening soars from hilarity to poignancy to the grotesque and back again with an immediacy and honesty that at times seems impossible.   …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."
Wet The Hippo plays the next two Fridays and Saturdays, June 21 & 22, 28 & 29. Two shows nightly at 7:30 and 9:00pm at the Complex Theatre, 6476 Santa Monica Blvd.

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