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Skip Kennon

Skip Kennon

Skip Kennon wrote the music for Herringbone (Playwrights Horizons, Williamstown, La Jolla, McCarter, Prince), Don Juan DeMarco (Seattle Rep), and the one-act Afternoon Tea (59E59; INTAR with Ed Harris & Amy Madigan). Music & lyrics: Blanco (Goodspeed, NAMT), Time & Again (Manhattan Theatre Club, Old Globe, O'Neill), The Last Starfighter (Storm Theatre, NYMF at Theatre at St. Clements, public workshop Seattle's Village Theatre), Feathertop (WPA, PA Stage), and the one-act Plaisir d'Amour (book by Terrence McNally, 59E59). Film/video: songs in Friends & Family (Regent Entertainment) and Disney's DVD Premiere award-winning sequel Hunchback of Notre Dame Part II. Skip moderated first year of the BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop for 20 years (overseeing program for ten years). He also taught at Neighborhood Playhouse for ten years. Herringbone was named in Top 10 cast albums of 2014 by Sound Advice at Talkin Broadway; The Last Starfighter was named in Talkin Broadway's Top 10 cast albums list in 2005.

Works by Skip Kennon

Musicals The Last Starfighter (family version) cover Musical Comedy Adventure The Last Starfighter (family version) Teenager Alex Rogan's life takes an unexpected turn when he breaks a video game record and is spirited away by the game's inventor, the alien huckster Centauri, to fight for the Star League in another galaxy. 60-65 min 6 females, 6 males, 3-48 any gender (15-60+ performers possible).
Musicals The Last Starfighter (full-length version) cover Musical The Last Starfighter (full-length version) Teenager Alex Rogan's life takes an unexpected turn when he breaks a video game record and is spirited away by the game's inventor, the alien huckster Centauri, to fight for the Star League in another galaxy. 85-95 min 6-30+ females, 9-30+ males (15-60+ performers possible).