Fringe Archive - 2005 - Community

Other random posts that don't fit anywhere else...

Best of the Fringe, Best of the Twin Cities

Lend Outward Spiral Theatre a Hand

The Latest from Skewed Visions

Thirst - Round 3 - details

They're at the Starting Gate... - Get a sneak peek at Man Saved By Condiments and help support Starting Gate Productions while you're at it...

Fringe Archive - 2005 - Fringe TV

The 2005 Minnesota Fringe Festival edition of the TV show I host, "Cue To Cue - A Conversation About Theater in the Twin Cities"

A Between Fringes set of episodes

The Great TV Shuffle

TV Update - a preliminary guest line-up

Another TV Update - Hope I didn't jinx anybody. Including myself...

My Fringe TV Guests - Taping Day 1 - The Scrimshaw Brothers, Allegra Lingo, The Early Stage, Aniccha Arts, Emigrant Theater...

Fringe TV Broadcast Alert

What Is This Fringe TV You Speak Of?

My TV Guests - Taping Day Two - Leah Cooper, Rik Reppe, David Mann & The Rogues, MedusaHead Productions, Teatro del Pueblo, Players of Notorious Temerity, Ballet of the Dolls, and more...

CUE TO CUE - a TV show covering theatre in the Twin Cities - Info on our latest Fringe guests, the coming week's broadcast schedule on SPNN Channel 19, and future schedule on TPT-17...

Fringe TV Guests, Past and Nearly Present - Kung Fu Hamlet, Man Saved By Condiments, Shanghai Extravaganza, The Talk - An Intercourse on Coming of Age, Skits-Ophrenia

Fringe Archive - 2005 - The First Fringe Lottery (and Ping Pong Ball Awards)

In 2005, the Minnesota Fringe Festival instituted a lottery system for determining who would make the cut for the schedule, and who would hang out on the waiting list (sometimes not for long, sometimes longer) for this non-juried festival.

Since the lottery was done via a spinning chicken-wire cage full of numbered ping pong balls, I naturally thought some kind of tongue-in-cheek commentary was required on the whole affair, and so I launched my Ping Pong Ball Awards as a bit of whimsy.

The First Fringe Lottery

The 2005 Ping Pong Ball Awards - The "Thick Hide" Award, The "Wow, Maybe Working Two Jobs Isn't So Bad After All" Award, The "Oops, Sorry About That" Award, The "Defense of Marriage Award" Award, The "I've A Feeling We're Not In Kansas Anymore" Award, Parts 1 and 2, The "Lives of Not So Quiet Desperation" Award, The "Forget the Pizza, Is there Any of that Beer Left?" Award, The "Somebody Up There Likes Them" Award, The "Well, that was easy. Where's the pizza and beer?" Award, The "Winter of Our Discontent" Award, The "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish" Award

And how'd this whole random lottery process work out, as opposed to some other random process? Should we reconsider the whole non-juried thing? In my opinion, respectively, great, and hell no.

Who Needs A Curator?

Fringe Archive - 2005 - Life of a Blogger (and Mom)

Background and behind-the-scenes stuff leading up to the 2005 Minnesota Fringe Festival experience for me and Mom...

The Wedding of Jeremy and Miriam - The Couple

Theater of the Evil P vs. Theater of the Happy V

Mandates and Man Dates

A Tribute To A War Hero

It's a Smaller Word After All

Brush Up Your Shakespeare Redux

The Waiting Is The Hardest Part

Fringe In Waiting - some shows that didn't make the cut

Fear of a Lily-White Fringe

Showcases - A Little Bit of This, A Little Bit of That

This Time Last Year

How Not To Produce A Fringe Show

What If They Gave An Audition and Nobody Came?

Celebrity Traffic Jam

True Tales of Tech Terror

What? You Think I Don't Have A Day Job?

Fringe Numerology

Here Comes Mom

Lovin' The Complete Venue Schedule Option

First Show Of The Fringe

Hail Fringe, Full of Grace

Fringe Blog Short-Circuit

Winnowing Time

I Just Pocasted...er...

Too Much - I guess I'm a little more wrung out than I thought...

E-mail, I get e-mail...

What Are The Odds? - I'm noticing the strangest details lately

A Fringe-mobile! - Just like Batman, some Fringe shows have their own set of wheels...

My Windows on the World - ode to a pair of eyeglasses which need to be replace, and some of the things I've seen with them over the past six years...

Mom and Post-Mom Fringe Scheduling

Corner Pieces in Place - Three must-sees for opening weekend with Mom - Glorious Noise, Chicks In Space, Please Don't Blow Up Mr. Boban...

Mom's Thursday Short List - 5:30pm - Angels of Warfare and Victory, Dance In The Dark, Henry Arms Left His Arms On The Bus, Sea Peach, and more...

Mom's Thursday Short List - 7pm - No Name Jugglers, and more...

Mom's Thursday Short List - 8:30pm - American Blue Jeans, Camelot Is Crumbling, Dancing Dirty with Lee and Mr. Bo, The Sound of Muzak, Soundtrack for the Common Man, Speechless

Mom's Thursday Short List - 10pm & 11:30pm - Blue Collar Kingpins, Georgia Out of My Mind, Meditations on Arion, Spare Parts; Tantrums, Testicles and Trojans, and more...

Mom's Thursday Fringe - Boob Tube, and more...

Running Commentary - I'm a Fringe addict. I may have a higher pain threshold than most people...

Mom's Friday Short List - 5:30pm - Edna St. Vincent Millay, The President Once Removed, Serendipity (et al.) and more...

Mom's Friday Short List - 7pm - Electropolis, For The Rest of My Life, Quantum Odyssey and more...

Mom's Friday Short List - 8/8:30pm - Color Me Naked Vol. 2: Big Black and Sassy, Grass and Concrete, Looking At You (Revived) Again and more...

Mom's Friday Short List - 10/11:30pm - 9/11 Tranny, Oedipus Wrecks: Shakespeare and Sophocles Excellent Adventure, Phyllis: This Side Up, and more...

Mom's Friday Fringe - Never Surrender's Greatest Adventures, Thirst and more...

Mom's Saturday Short List - 1:00pm - At Least One Shoe, The Labyrinth, Round and Sound and Pretty, and more...

Mom's Saturday Short List - 2/2:30pm - Inspector Rex, London After Midnight, A Tempest for Two, and more...

Mom's Saturday Short List - 4:00pm - This Is Our Youth, Three Guys On A Roof Swearing A Lot, and more...

Mom's Saturday Short List - 5:30/6pm - The Burrow of Does, Darleen Dances, I Voted for Gummi Bears, Tin Pan Alley Revue, and more...

Mom's Saturday Short List - 7pm - Michigan Disasters, and more...

Mom's Saturday Short List - 8/8:30pm - Bourbon and Butter, and more...

Mom's Saturday Short List - 10/11:30pm - At The End of the Day, Charlie Bethel's Gilgamesh, Company We Keep, The Princeton Seventh, and more...

Mom's Saturday Fringe - I'm Sorry and I'm Sorry, Going to Second Base with God: A Stormy Romance, and more...

Mom's Sunday Short List - 12/1pm - Eat Drink Marry, and more...

Mom's Sunday Short Lists - 2:30 & 4pm - Everyman, LICK!, and more...

Mom's Sunday Short Lists - 5:30 / 6 / 7 / 8:30 / 10 / 11:30pm - Jaws: The Musical! The Directors Cut, Cliff Notes for Dummies, and more...

Cast of Characters, part 1

Farewell, Mom

What I'm Seeing - Wednesday 8/10

What I'm Seeing - Thursday 8/11

Audience Reviews

What I'm Seeing - Friday 8/12

What I'm Seeing - Saturday 8/13

Fringe Archive - 2005 - Fringe Snapshots and Notable Moments

Mini-reviews and quick flashes of some of my days on the run at the 2005 Minnesota Fringe Festival - to tide folks (and me) over until I could post actual reviews and such...

Review Snapshot - Day 3 - Saturday 8/6 - Mini-reviews of - I'm Sorry and I'm Sorry, 10-Speed Revolution, Corleone, Going to 2nd Base with God, Please Don't Blow Up Mr. Boban, Magic Exists, Tantrums Testicles and Trojans

Review Snapshot - Day 4 - Sunday 8/7 - Mini-reviews of - I Voted for Gummi Bears, Three Ring Circus, Candy Ass Club, Jaws The Musical, Michigan Disasters, Dead Wait, Hubcap Frisbee

Notable Tuesday Moments - 8/9

Notable Wednesday Moments - 8/10

Fringe Archive - 2005 - My Pre-Fringe Top 20

If You Remove That Gun From My Head...

...or if I were allowed to see 10 more Fringe shows, what would they be and why?

Here's the full rundown on my first attempt at an actual second 10 plays to check out in a less than random presentational way on the blog. Click the link back there for info on...

Act Before Midnight!

The Adventures of Can-Man!

Corleone

Hubcap Frisbee

Mythed

Press Play

Tempest for Two

Together Apart

Trapped

Unicycle Showcase

Fringe Archive - 2005 - My Pre-Fringe Top 10

If You Held A Gun To My Head...

...or if I could only see 10 Fringe shows, what would they be and why?

Here's the full rundown on all this year's intriguing acts I'm most excited about...

#10 - Dead Wait - Emigrant Theater

#9 - Magic Exists - Derek Hughes, aka Insomnia Inc.

#8 - My Version of Normal - Fringe Spoken Word Productions

#7 - 10-Speed Revolution - Walking Shadow Theater Company

#6 - (part deux) Adventures In Mating - Joseph Scrimshaw

#6 - The Scrimshaw Show - The Scrimshaw Brothers

#5 - Why We Have A Body - Tenth Muse Productions

#4 - Desolation In America - Players of Notorious Temerity

#3 - Three Ring Circus: Israel, The Palestinians and My Jewish Identity - Moving Target Theatre Company

#2 - Chicks In Space - Theatre Unbound

#1 - Please Don't Blow Up Mr. Boban - Live Action Set

plus a little extra early write-up on Boban here - Bring Your Own Venue - Live Action Set hits The Soap Factory

Plus some rundowns on returning artists who were on pre-Fringe Top 10 lists of the past

pre-Fringe Top 10 2004 Returnees - Rhino Productions, Ballet of the Dolls, Kevin Kling & Rik Reppe...

and an extra note about Rik Reppe's new solo work Glorious Noise

pre-Fringe Top 10 2004 Returnees - Ammala Dance and Music, Aspect I Studios, Theater Latte Da, Tim Uren, Jen Scott & Claire Simonson...

And some afterthoughts about how those shows I was intrigued in beforehand turned out, and some surprises that slipped in under my radar as very pleasant surprises and new favorites...

Post-Mortem on pre-Fringe Top 10

Post-Morten on pre-Fringe Top 11-20

Many Happy Returns - 2004 Edition - Boob Tube, Michigan Disasters, Jaws! The Musical

If I'd Only Known - Part 1 - three very different (and differently received) shows that should have been in my pre-Fringe Top 10 - I'm Sorry and I'm Sorry, Bourbon and Butter, Camelot Is Crumbling

If I'd Only Known - Part 2 - Five shows that should have been in my pre-Fringe Top 20 - Speechless, Sea Peach, Never Surrender's Greatest Adventures, I Voted For Gummi Bears, No Name Jugglers Live

Gifts From My Friends - Here are three shows by friends of mine that turned out to be pleasant surprises I should have been excited about all along - At Least One Show, The Candy Ass Club, Cliff Notes For Dummies

Fringe Archive - 2005 - 5 Stars - Life-Altering Experience

Productions at the 2005 Minnesota Fringe Festival I rated...

5 Stars - Life-Altering Experience

Act Before Midnight - zAmya Theater Project

Adventures In Mating - Joseph Scrimshaw

Boob Toob - Claire Simonson

Camelot Is Crumbling - Maximum Verbosity

Corleone - David Mann & The Rogues

Desolation In America - or (Not According to Plan) or (The Beauty of Escapism) or (Oops.) - The Players of Notorious Temerity(saw it twice) - a note on the return visit

Glorious Noise - Rik Reppe

I Voted For Gummi Bears - Ochen K

I’m Sorry and I’m Sorry - The Candidatos (saw it twice) a note on the return visit

Mythed - 3 Sticks

Never Surrenders’s Greatest Adventures - Never Surrender

Please Don’t Blow Up Mr. Boban - Live Action Set (saw it twice) here's a note on the return visit during the Fringe, and a review of the remount they later stages at the Loring Playhouse

Press Play - Benjamin Kimitch

The Scrimshaw Show - The Scrimshaw Brothers

Sea Peach - Mainline Theatre

Speechless - Jessica Ferris

Stripped - Ballet of the Dolls

A Tempest...For Two - Knighthorse Theatre Company

Why We Have A Body - Tenth Muse Theatre

and a quick rundown of 5 Star Shows of The Past, aka a post called The Star Chamber

Fringe Archive - 2005 - 4-1/2 Stars - Damn Near Perfect

Productions at the 2005 Minnesota Fringe Festival I rated...

4-1/2 Stars - Damn Near Perfect

At Least One Shoe - La La Enterprises

Bourbon and Butter - FG9 Theater

The Candy Ass Club - The Early Stage

Chicks In Space - Theatre Unbound

Dead Wait - Emigrant Theater

Hubcap Frisbee - Allegra Lingo

Jaws: The Musical! The Director’s Cut - Mime Rifle Productions

Magic Exists - Derek Hughes (aka, Insomnia Inc.)

Michigan Disasters - Tim Uren

No Name Jugglers Live - Dan & A.J., the No Name Jugglers

10 Speed Revolution - Walking Shadow

Three Ring Circus: Israel, the Palestinians and My Jewish Identity - Moving Target Theatre Company

Together Apart - Works/Plays 2005

and a quick rundown of 4-1/2 Star Shows of The Past, aka a post called The Star Chamber

Fringe Archive - 2005 - 4 Stars - Excellent

Productions at the 2005 Minnesota Fringe Festival I rated...

4 Stars - Excellent

At The End of the Day - Daniel Ellis

Cliff Notes for Dummies - Third Rabbit Dance Ensemble

Everyman - Arthur Repertory Theatre

Grass & Concrete - Country Waif Productions

LICK! - The Mechanical Division

Mic’d: Good Dancers/Bad Language - Kayle & Company

Quantum Odyssey - The Electric Telescope Theatre Co.

Spare Parts - Rhino Productions

Swim Home - Mikael Rudolph

Trapped - Dugodug Productions

Unicycle Showcase - Unicycle Theater

and a quick rundown of 4 Star Shows of The Past, aka a post called The Star Chamber

Fringe Archive - 2005 - 3-1/2 Stars - Good Job Plus

Productions at the 2005 Minnesota Fringe Festival I rated...

3-1/2 Stars - Good Job Plus

The Adventures of Can Man - The Shoe String Puppet Theater

Blue Collar Kingpins - the Blue Collar Kingpins

Company We Keep - Asses, Elephants & Artists

Darleen Dances - La Vie Theater Company

Going To 2nd Base with God: A Stormy Romance - Holly Davis Productions

My Version of Normal - Spoken Word Fringe Productions

Tantrums Testicles and Trojans - Empty S Productions

Thirst - Thirst Theater

and a quick rundown of 3-1/2 Star Shows of The Past, aka a post called The Star Chamber

Fringe Archive - 2005 - 3 Stars - Good Job

Productions in the 2005 Minnesota Fringe Festival I rated...

3 Stars - Good Job

Dancing Dirty with Lee and Mr. Bo - Jaded Optimist Productions

Dinner with Medusa - MedusaHead Productions

Eat Drink Marry - Hurley & Dancers

and a quick rundown of 3 Star Shows of The Past, aka a post called The Star Chamber

Fringe Archive - 2005 - 2-1/2 Stars - Not Bad, Still Needs Some Work

Productions in the 2005 Minnesota Fringe Festival I rated...

2-1/2 Stars - Not Bad, Still Needs Some Work

Angels of Warfare and Victory - Hallel Praise Productions

Three Guys On A Roof Swearing Alot - Patrick Ryan

and a quick rundown of Under 3 Star Shows of The Past, aka a post called The Star Chamber

Fringe Archive - 2005 - 0 Stars to 2 Stars - Run For It, Life's Too Short, Not Bad - Needs Some Work

Productions in the 2005 Minnesota Fringe Festvial I rated...

0 Stars - Run For it

1 Stars - Life's Too Short

1-1/2 Stars - Life's Still Too Short

2 Stars - Not Bad, Needs Some Work

That would be...

none

but here's a quick rundown of Under 3 Star Shows of The Past, aka a post called The Star Chamber