Who Fringed It?
Who Fringed It?
wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#1Who Fringed It?
Posted: 8/26/07 at 7:06pm
I wound up seeing four things at The Fringe Festival.
I saw Bukowsical!, Life/Play,Elephant In The Room and Elekrafire.
OK stuff with small audiences which made it an intimate experience.
I've into the theater since 1988, I can't believe that this is the first time that I actually went to the Festival.
So else Fringed about the past couple of weeks?
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
#2re: Who Fringed It?
Posted: 8/26/07 at 7:57pm
I only saw Elephant from your list. I wish I had seen the other 3 as well as a few others.
Here's my list and reviews
wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#2re: Who Fringed It?
Posted: 8/26/07 at 8:30pmJerby, the toughest thing about the Fringe besides the amount of stuff to see were the wierd times of everything. Planning want to see was like planning an affair, it was work.
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
#3re: Who Fringed It?
Posted: 8/26/07 at 8:45pmI saw 7 Stories High, The Jazz Messenger, and the Rat King Rock Opera or whatever it was called. Rat King was AWFUL. It made In My Life look like Shakespeare.
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
#4re: Who Fringed It?
Posted: 8/26/07 at 9:09pmI have luckily had more free time that usual, but it did take planning. The hardest part is knowing which will be the good shows. I did pretty well, but saw some not so good shows.
Salad_Fingers85
Stand-by Joined: 8/30/05
#5re: Who Fringed It?
Posted: 8/27/07 at 1:16amI went to the Edmonton fringe (in Canada and also the largest one in North America)and got to see 17 shows in 5 days.. it was sweet!
#6re: Who Fringed It?
Posted: 8/27/07 at 5:16amI saw "Hail Satan" by Mac Rogers. Well written, superb casting. Renee Delio was fabulous; definitely a future Broadway star. I also caught her performance as "Geri" in "Cawffee Tawk" at the Riant Theatre's Strawberry One Act Festival. I have been going to the fringe for about 4 years now, and I have never seen a disappointing show. Kudos!
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VoiceAnth22
Broadway Star Joined: 8/16/07
#7re: Who Fringed It?
Posted: 8/27/07 at 10:32am
SOME good..some lees THAN so..
Two BWW posters were GREAT in their respective SHOWS!
#8re: Who Fringed It?
Posted: 8/27/07 at 10:34amI saw Other Side of Darkness and It Ain't No Party.
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robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#9re: Who Fringed It?
Posted: 8/27/07 at 10:39amI, too, saw HAIL SATAN, as I'm friend with the creative staff after having done FLEET WEEK for them 2 years ago. Were I independently wealthy, I would move the production off-Broadway in a heartbeat. Mac Rogers is simply a terrific writer who plays with expectations so beautifully. HAIL SATAN sounds like it could be another excercise in Fringe camp...but it wasn't. It was daring, dangerous, funny, moving and disturbing. Not counting things I've been in, it's the best thing I've come across in my 9 years of attending this festival. Bravo, my friends. Bravo.
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Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#10re: Who Fringed It?
Posted: 8/27/07 at 10:44am
I loved Orville Mendoza in BYE BYE BIG GUY. Very funny!
I also saw KISS AND MAKE UP. No comment on that show.
#11re: Who Fringed It?
Posted: 8/27/07 at 12:19pm
I TOOOOOOLLLLLLD you bitches to go see BASH'd!! Why can't you children mind?
#12re: Who Fringed It?
Posted: 8/27/07 at 2:20pmI saw BASH'd! Thanks for the good advice, Jerbs!
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"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
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Broadway Legend Joined: 8/12/04
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