{"id":61681,"date":"2025-11-26T16:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T16:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/61681\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T16:29:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T16:29:11","slug":"tomatoes-tried-to-kill-me-but-banjos-saved-my-life-at-the-laboratory-theater-of-florida-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/61681\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomatoes Tried To Kill Me But Banjos Saved My Life at The Laboratory Theater of Florida Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Alessi&#8217;s one-man show, \u201cTomatoes Tried to Kill Me But Banjos Saved My Life\u201d, has garnered critical acclaim, receiving five-star reviews and achieving sold-out performances during its Off-Broadway run in 2019. The show continued its success with multiple sell-outs at both the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and across North America. Through this performance, Alessi shares his transformative personal story, detailing his path from a corporate CEO to a cancer survivor, and ultimately, a banjo player whose music and storytelling have inspired audiences worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Over 370 performances and counting, the show has raised over $1million Canadian for charities worldwide\u2014literally turning hardship into hope. Now, it returns to Southwest Florida, bringing a message of hope and inspiration to The Lab\u2019s stage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss this rare chance to experience a show that transforms personal struggle into universal inspiration\u2014it\u2019s a gift to the heart of the community.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Performance dates:<\/p>\n<p>January 28, 29 at 7:30 pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keith Alessi&#8217;s one-man show, \u201cTomatoes Tried to Kill Me But Banjos Saved My Life\u201d, has garnered critical acclaim,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-61681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}