For one evening solely, Reefer Insanity is taking a visit again to its musical roots.
Kristen Bell and Christian Campbell are reuniting onstage July 30 for a Reefer Insanity: The Musical twenty fifth anniversary live performance in celebration of their new Los Angeles revival getting prolonged by means of August 18 at The Whitley.
Bell and Campbell will return alongside fellow alums Harry S. Murphy, John Kassir, Lori Alan, Stacy Sibley, Larry Poindexter, Samantha Harris, Aukai Cain, Elijah Myles Breckel and Paul Nygro, in response to Playbill. Extra company can be introduced quickly.
The ensemble will carry out songs and share tales, accompanied by musicians Nathan Wang, Sid Sosa, Jordan Lamoureux and Phil Morore, with music director David Lamoureux. An after-party can be held on the Victory Backyard, the immersive theater’s outside lounge.
In 1999, Campbell first starred as Jimmy Harper in Reefer Insanity: The Musical when it debuted in L.A. Bell joined the manufacturing as Mary Lane through the present’s off-Broadway run. A parody of the 1936 propaganda movie (turned-exploitation film-turned-stoner cult basic), the musical by Kevin Murphy and Dan Studney has returned dwelling because it celebrates its twenty fifth anniversary with a revamped immersive stage manufacturing and hashish lounge.
Christian Campbell and Kristen Bell in Reefer Insanity: The Musical (2004). (James Dittiger/Showtime/Courtesy Everett Assortment)
James Dittiger/ Showtime / Courtesy Everett Assortment
“Coming again to this, for me, was a no brainer,” Bell beforehand advised Deadline. “I owe a lot of my life to those folks and this present.”
Campbell and Bell are joined by fellow Reefer alum Alan Cumming in producing the brand new adaptation, which is directed and choreographed by Spencer Liff. Anthony Norman and Darcy Rose Byrnes take the reins from Campbell and Bell as star-crossed lovers Jimmy Harper and Mary Lane, together with a brand new forged that additionally contains Thomas Dekker, Nicole Parker, J. Elaine Marcos and Bryan Daniel Porter.
Now 25 years later, they’ve re-created “The Reefer Den,” a time period of endearment for the café subsequent to the unique musical’s venue in Los Angeles the place the forged would congregate after every present. This time round, it’s a completely functioning lounge with stay performances for a brand new neighborhood of reefer fiends to take pleasure in.
Tickets for the Reefer Insanity: The Musical twenty fifth anniversary live performance can be found at Eventbrite.
