"The Life and Death of Kenyon Phillips"

"The Life and Death of Kenyon Phillips": Rock Opera Infused With Cabaret & Circus Arts

Though Kenyon Phillips once expressed a desire to die "at the hands of a wild animal," "The Life and Death of Kenyon Phillips" features no ferocious maneaters. Then again, considering it incorporates circus, cabaret, burlesque and vaudeville, wild animals are about the only things this 90-minute surrealist rock opera "doesn't" have. The show's interactive-cabaret-variety format tells the fictionalized "life story" of the performance artist "The Huffington Post" called the "New King of New York." In addition to Phillips and his all-girl backing band, The Ladies In Waiting, the cast includes Michael Musto, Daphne Rubin-Vega and a host of aerialists, acrobats, and burlesquers from the NYC circus underground. After multiple sold-out performances at Joe's Pub and The Box, "The Life and Death of Kenyon Phillips" moves to the grand ballroom of Webster Hall for a one-night engagement that promises more songs, more thrills, and more chills than ever before.