Rehab: the Musical
A Felliniesque look at the lives of seven celebrities as they battle drugs, alcohol, and each other while in rehab.
A Felliniesque look at the lives of seven celebrities as they battle drugs, alcohol, and each other while in rehab.
Set in a famous LA rehab center founded by a world-renown addiction therapist, it centers on Whinny Amstelhouse, a global pop star with a four-foot-tall beehive hairdo-- and a host of addictions as high as her hair-- as she battles them and an addicted and imprisoned husband while facing down a troubled history of parental abuse-- through song and dance. As do her six fellow patients with addiction histories of their own: Britney Speared, Paris Tilton, Hitme Houston, Robert Downhill, Jr., Smell Gibson, and Nicked Nolte.
Some find a way out of their own personal hell, some don't as they transverse a surreal world of giant hypodermic needles and cocktail glasses, mountains of coke, and enough cigarettes and pot to make you think you're watching some kind of smoke-filled film noir nightmare-- but in color with lots of singing, some occasional dancing, and an always in-your-face anti-addiction message.
Some find a way out of their own personal hell, some don't as they transverse a surreal world of giant hypodermic needles and cocktail glasses, mountains of coke, and enough cigarettes and pot to make you think you're watching some kind of smoke-filled film noir nightmare-- but in color with lots of singing, some occasional dancing, and an always in-your-face anti-addiction message.
Creative
Libretto and Music.
Robin Hunter Stuart was born and has lived mostly in Los Angeles- Venice Beach. She graduated from USC with a BFA in painting. Awarded Yale Summer School Scholarship.
Social work with abused children.
Club fashion shows with live performance. The show Found Fashion, featured people from the streets, including skid row and a manageable psychotic from Hollywood Blvd.
Fashion lines for men (man skirts) and women (hats and fast forward street-wear).
X-Ray video magazine in charge of interviews, staffing and management .
Talent scout for kids.
Presently Ms. Stuart lives in Miami where she is missing L.A.’s quirky, rich, star-studded culture-- but it's a sacrifice she's willing to make for the beach…one with warm water .
Robin Hunter Stuart was born and has lived mostly in Los Angeles- Venice Beach. She graduated from USC with a BFA in painting. Awarded Yale Summer School Scholarship.
Social work with abused children.
Club fashion shows with live performance. The show Found Fashion, featured people from the streets, including skid row and a manageable psychotic from Hollywood Blvd.
Fashion lines for men (man skirts) and women (hats and fast forward street-wear).
X-Ray video magazine in charge of interviews, staffing and management .
Talent scout for kids.
Presently Ms. Stuart lives in Miami where she is missing L.A.’s quirky, rich, star-studded culture-- but it's a sacrifice she's willing to make for the beach…one with warm water .
Libretto & Music.
Eric Tetrault passed February 2019 at 56.
He had worked in Hollywood for years writing screenplays, some to fruition in small productions.
He had an exquisite art eye, sophisticated and modern tastes in art and music which showed in his work. He saw that I was writing Rehab and jumped aboard feeling it was a worthy project.
He graduated from the University of Connecticut in drama. He had a band in his early years, and always knew what was au courant in music.
He worked for Disney in his early years designing amusement park models, and lived in Japan for sometime.
He has red headed twin sisters who, as I, miss him terribly.
Eric Tetrault passed February 2019 at 56.
He had worked in Hollywood for years writing screenplays, some to fruition in small productions.
He had an exquisite art eye, sophisticated and modern tastes in art and music which showed in his work. He saw that I was writing Rehab and jumped aboard feeling it was a worthy project.
He graduated from the University of Connecticut in drama. He had a band in his early years, and always knew what was au courant in music.
He worked for Disney in his early years designing amusement park models, and lived in Japan for sometime.
He has red headed twin sisters who, as I, miss him terribly.
Libretto.
D.C. Copeland is a member of the Dramatists Guild. His “dancical” Jitterbug! has had two NYC readings. The first was at the prestigious National Black Theater in Harlem. The second had dance numbers by Emmy-nominated choreographer Jeffrey Page.
Copeland is currently writing the libretto for Fajardo: The Beat Goes On. It's based on the true story of a drug addicted kid from the Bronx with a rap sheet a mile long who grows up and revolutionizes ballroom dancing. Produced by Tully Creative.
D.C. Copeland is a member of the Dramatists Guild. His “dancical” Jitterbug! has had two NYC readings. The first was at the prestigious National Black Theater in Harlem. The second had dance numbers by Emmy-nominated choreographer Jeffrey Page.
Copeland is currently writing the libretto for Fajardo: The Beat Goes On. It's based on the true story of a drug addicted kid from the Bronx with a rap sheet a mile long who grows up and revolutionizes ballroom dancing. Produced by Tully Creative.