SOONER OR LATER, IT HAD TO HAPPEN: TRUMP IN SPACE
Trump in Space- The Musical
PHILIP SOKOLOFF
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May 5, 2017
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SOONER OR LATER, IT HAD TO HAPPEN: TRUMP IN SPACE; WORLD PREMIERE MUSICAL STARTS PERFORMANCES ON JUNE 3 AT HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL
WHAT: Trump In Space, a World Premiere musical. A Hollywood Fringe Festival selection.
WHO: Book and lyrics by Gillian Bellinger and Landon Kirksey. Music by Tony Gonzalez and Sam Johnides. Directed by Matt Zettell. Choreography by Annabeth Rickley. Presented by Texpats Productions.
WHERE: The Actors Company Let Live Theater, 916 N. Formosa Ave., Hollywood 90046.
WHEN: Saturday, June 3, 2017 at 10:00 p.m.; Friday, June 16 at 11:30 p.m.; Saturday, June 17 at 5:30 p.m.; Friday, June 23 at 8:30 p.m.; Saturday, June 24 at 5:30 p.m.
ADMISSION: $12.
RESERVATIONS: (323) 455-4585.
ONLINE TICKETING: http://hff17.com/4764
ESTIMATED RUNNING TIME: One hour.
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Four hundred years from now, thanks to the stripping away of EPA regulations, the earth has blown up. Two human factions survive and are on the hunt for Polaris 4, a planet capable of sustaining human life. One faction, the United States of Commerce, lives by a motto of “opportunity at any cost.” Ruled by The Executive, his chief representative in space is starship Captain Natasha Trump, a lineal descendant of Donald J. Trump.
Competing with her to reach Polaris 4 first is a resistance called The Separatists, gathered on the Starship California and led by President Gary Hart, Natasha’s ex-lover.
Which faction will be the first to reach Polaris 4 and establish the New Cosmic Order?
Matt Zettell (Resurrection County, The Cellar Door, Axe to Grind, Jobz 4 Dogz) directs Trump In Space. His cast for the new musical includes (in alphabetical order) Gillian Bellinger, Nikki Bittogrino, Landon Kirksey, Muriel Montgomery, Scott Palmason, Kevin Richards, Don Schlossman and Jim Shipley.
Gillian Bellinger and Landon Kirksey wrote the book and lyrics. Both are members of the comedy troupe Mission: Improvable. Trump In Space is Bellinger’s fifth show at the Fringe. It’s the third musical she’s co-written. Kirksey has written for Comedy Central’s TripTank.
Tony Gonzalez is Trump in Space’s musical director. He and Sam Johnides are the show’s composers. The duo has collaborated on The Sam & Tony Show, Songs You Made Me Write, and Annabella.
Bellinger comments on the creation of Trump In Space, “I felt defeated by the whole election and wanted to respond to what I felt like was a tragedy in the best way I knew how, through comedy, I wanted to infuse joy and laughter into what I perceive as sad and scary reality. I wanted to give people something to laugh at and give them distance and space, pun intended.”
Her collaborator, Landon Kirksey, says, “We felt we had something to say about the world, in a funny way, so we’re saying it like one always should, through song.”
