JOHN DOE/SKID ROW/D.O.A. 1YR AGO, ROSE FROM THE DEAD TO PUT ON A BROADWAY MUSICAL SHOW!--NOT ALL CHORUS BOYS GO TO HEAVEN, SOME WIND UP IN L.A. TRIP KENNEDY IN: RETURN TRIP!
RETURN TRIP: what I did after I died. Twice.
PRESS RELEASE:
RETURN TRIP
(HOW I SPENT THE FIRST YEAR AFTER THE SECOND TIME I DIED. A Ridiculously true story.)
TRIP KENNEDY WAS that
JOHN DOE, from
SKID ROW,
D.O.A.
A YEAR AGO.
How Trip went from Skid Row to the Hollywood Fringe is the subject his brand new Broadway Bound “DOO-WOP-eretta” blending jazz, blues, gospel, opera, stand-up comedy, show-stoppers and power ballads.
“they aren’t the sappy stuff one usually hears when the performer says, ’and then I wrote this next song…” These are top notch show driven songs, Julie Wilson would love these songs, each one tells a story…” —Jack Moore, Cabaret Scenes.
“A year ago, I started with nothing, but my imagination, I created an entirely different life. After 15 years of breakdowns, …A Breakthrough, and all I had to do was die. Twice.”
Not all New York Broadway Show Queens go to Heaven. Some wind up in LA.” —Trip Kennedy
On March 17th, 2017, Another John Doe, from Skid Row, was Dead On Arrival at Cedars Sinai. He was kept for three days, stabilized and although he begged not to be released, he was. He was deranged, he was delusional, he had nowhere to go.
On March 24th, 2017 the same John Doe from Skid Row, was Dead on Arrival at Cedars Sinai. This time he was promised recuperative care, a place to rest, receive treatment, off the streets. Instead:
On March 27th 2017 John Doe was put on a bus at 4 in the morning to the Midnight Mission. John had nothing, except 4 bus tokens and the clothes the nursing staff had given him. No ID , no wallet, no phone, no glasses, no teeth, no shoes, no friends, no family no one to list as an Emergency Contact.
On March 27th of 2018,
Broadway Veteran and Lyricist/Composer, Kerrington award winner: Trip Kennedy stood before a packed house at the Nations Longest Running Cabaret Venue (The Gardenia, located here, in Los Angeles), where he had been performing as a regular with original songs once a week while developing a new Broadway Bound musical for 9 Months.
This was a special night for Trip Kennedy, it was the night he would first announce that he would premier his new Broadway Musical at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. The name of the Show:
RETURN TRIP
(HOW I SPENT THE FIRST YEAR AFTER THE SECOND TIME I DIED.)
TRIP KENNEDY WAS that
JOHN DOE, from
SKID ROW,
D.O.A.
A YEAR AGO.
Who: Trip Kennedy, Composer, Lyricist, Bookwriter, Director, Choreographer, Sound Designer, Lighting Designer, Stage Manager, and Starring as himself in his own story
What:
A World Premiere of a Broadway Bound Musical about the improbable adventures of a Broadway Show composer/lyricist/comic who died at the bottom. Twice. But Wouldn’t give up.
When:
Saturday, June 2, 2018 2:30 PM.
Friday, June 8, 2018, 9:30 PM
Saturday, June 23, 2018 8:30 PM
Where:
THYMELE ARTS
(KANSAS ROOM)
5471 Santa Monica, Blvd @ Western (N.E. Corner)
Los Angeles, CA 90029
Why: Let’s face it…you really haven’t done enough to help the homeless, or cancer survivors, or stroke survivors or the arts, the insane or the tenors— now you can do it all sitting down in about an hour.
Never feel guilty or obligated again. All of your debts will be paid. You will leave inspired, thinner and younger.
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