image – Dumpster Diver the musical

Dumpster Diver the Musical beverage container

Get official Dumpster Diver the Musical gear

June 7, 2021 Kris Kemp Dumpster Diver the Musical gear, Dumpster Diver the Musical shop, get official Dumpster Diver the Musical gear, get official gear, shop Dumpster Diver the Musical, shop official Dumpster Diver the Musical

Get official Dumpster Diver the Musical gear Show your sense of adventure when you purchase one of our official products!

image

Images and illustrations – Dumpster Diver the Musical

June 7, 2021June 7, 2021 Kris Kemp images and illustrations Dumpster Diver the Musical, to the chocolate dumpster

Images and illustrations – Dumpster Diver the Musical pictures Julian and Heather play songs at their wedding Years ago, after

image

Mixing the songs for Dumpster Diver the Musical

June 7, 2021 Kris Kemp mixing the songs for Dumpster Diver the Musical

Recording the songs for Dumpster Diver the Musical Some years ago, I was staying in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, in

image

They played songs from Dumpster Diver the Musical at their wedding!

June 7, 2021June 7, 2021 Kris Kemp They played Dumpster Diver the Musical at their wedding

They played songs from Dumpster Diver the Musical at their wedding! pictures Julian and Heather play songs at their wedding

image

illustrations by Kitty O. for characters in Dumpster Diver the Musical

June 7, 2021 Kris Kemp Dumpster Diver the Musical character and costume illustrations by Kitty O., illustrations by Kitty O for Dumpster Diver the Musical, illustrations for costume ideas for Dumpster Diver the Musical

Here’s a few illustrations by the talented Kitty O. for a few of the characters in Dumpster Diver the Musical.

New Musical brings Steampunk style to New York City

image

From Suit-and-Tie to Vagabond Traveler: The Transformation of Trevor

December 11, 2018June 4, 2021 Kris Kemp from suit and tie, from suit and tie to vagabond traveler, from suit and tie to vagabond traveler the transformation of Trevor, the transformation of Trevor, to vagabond traveler

Me, Kris Kemp, dressed up in the ideal wardrobe look for Trevor, one of the main characters in Dumpster Diver

image

The Logos of Dumpster Diver the Musical

December 11, 2018June 4, 2021 Kris Kemp Dumpster Diver the musical logos, the logos of Dumpster Diver the musical

image

The Characters of Dumpster Diver the Musical, as Illustrated by Kitty O.

December 11, 2018June 4, 2021 Kris Kemp as illustrated by Kitty O., character illustrations from Dumpster Diver the Musical, Dumpster Diver the Musical character illustrations by Kitty O., the character illustrations of Dumpster Diver the musical, the characters of Dumpster Diver the musical

These are characters of Dumpster Diver the Musical, as illustrated by Kitty O. She messaged me on Facebook and sent

blog image

They Played Dumpster Diver the Musical at Their Wedding!

December 11, 2018June 4, 2021 Kris Kemp They played Dumpster Diver the Musical at their wedding

Julian, an engineer and avid dumpster diver, dated and dumpster dived with his girlfriend, then proposed to her. She said

blog image

Dumpster Diver the musical is coming to New York City – Get Tickets Online Now

July 12, 2018June 4, 2021 Kris Kemp a musical about dumpster divers is coming to New York City, a musical about dumpster diving is coming to New York City, Dumpster Diver musical is coming to New York City, Dumpster Diver Musical is coming to NYC, dumpster diver the musical, Dumpster Diver the musical is coming to NYC, Dumpster Diver the musical takes a bite out of the big apple

Dumpster Diver the musical is coming to The Hudson Guild Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan, New York, in October. Click here

← Previous

Dumpster Diver the Musical is a musical I wrote about following your dreams, no matter how unconventional.

It’s a two-act musical that tells the story of 2 friends, Trevor, a tech kid, and Faith, a hippie nomad, who graduate college and head their separate ways. When they re-meet 4 years later, and Faith confronts Trevor with the truth about his company, that it is evil, Trevor has a decision to make–continue his comfortable life working for an evil company, or abandoning everything and joining Faith and her rogue friends on their cross-country adventure to expose the company, in order to shut it down.

Find out what happens in this new musical about friendship, adventure, and dumpster diving. Find out what happens when you “follow your dreams, no matter how unconventional”.

Kris Kemp
writer (book/score) – Dumpster Diver the Musical
347-557-5487
bicycledays@yahoo.com

Hi, I’m the writer (book/score) of Dumpster Diver the Musical. Originally, I began writing this story many years ago when I lived in downtown West Palm Beach, Florida.

At the time, I was living in this big run-down warehouse inhabited by a revolving door of artists, musicians, drifters and dreamers. This warehouse, a big quonset hut actually, was a kind-of “Bermuda Triangle” for the fringe artist scene. It sat in an area, Flamingo Park, that was being cleaned up. As the real estate investors circled the area, the code enforcement people start making regular visits to the warehouse.

On one side of the warehouse, literally, 20 feet from my room, sat the railroad tracks, and yes, they were active. On the other side of the warehouse, was the gentrifying neighborhood. We were surrounded on all sides, by progress and commerce.

Living there, I was in the midst of interesting people and I began keeping a journal, documenting the activity. I sifted through my notes and started to write a play called “Plato’s Cave”, as a nod to the offbeat philosophers that drifted through the space.

Around this time, I was introduced to dumpster diving, from a friend, who lived at a collective space in nearby Lake Worth, Florida. I took the notes from “Plato’s Cave” and thought, “What if there was an entire group of drifters and dreamers, who were dumpster divers, in a future where dumpster diving was illegal?” That was the seed of an idea that was planted in my imagination that would later grow into the tree, for Dumpster Diver the Musical.

Thinking about it now, this idea was likely shaped by the situation that was unfolding around me at the time, at the warehouse, as we were a group of renegades surrounded by a progress that would eventually see the warehouse shut down, buried under a mountain of code violations, so much so that the owner, Alan Patrusevich, forced with paying a huge bill and the continual harassment by code enforcement, would sell the property.

The dust would settle. As it had before. And the artists, poets, musicians, dreamers, writers, who’d left the treadmill of nine-to-five to navigate their way through this hamster cage of the disenfranchised, would eventually drop anchor at other overlooked and abandoned islands, with their run-aground ships and forgotten caves.

Those who don’t feel at home in this world will find their home among the invisible territories. Like giant magnets in the sky that can only attract what they do not destroy, their journey will rewarded. The sound of time is the music and the muse. The seduction of the equator is their reality.

Kris Kemp
writer (book/score) Dumpster Diver the Musical
347-557-5487
bicycledays@yahoo.com