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 - 2006 - Fringe TV and Fringe Mailbox

For the 2006 Minnesota Fringe Festival, I got myself a PO Box, and the TV show I host, asked for video samples so we could try and include some of the out-of-towners in our pre-Fringe coverage. Said samples were sent to said mailbox, and on we go...

Fringe TV - Cue to Cue - homework time, who will the guests potentially be...?

CUE TO CUE - a TV show covering theatre in the Twin Cities - As we prepare to tape our fourth annual Minnesota Fringe Festival spotlight episodes, here’s a little overview of where Cue to Cue has been in the past three years...

A Call For Video Samples for Fringe TV

Fringe Mailbox

Mail Call - Week 1 - Missives from old friends The Candidatos, and new Fringers Guess Who's Coming, Dario and Bario.."

Mail Call - Week 2 - Christopher Leuck's I Want To Be Musashi-A Clown Samurai Fantasy, Wilson Loria's To The Winners, Jeff Baenen's Bud and Wally...

Mail Call - Week 3 - Three Crazy Sons' one man show Dancing with Jimmy, and the improv comedy of Fresh Meat NYC and 88 Improv...

Fringe TV Time, Year 4

Mail Call - Week 4 - The last of the video mailers, this one from Abby Browde and Erin Search-Wells...

Mail Call - Week 6 - Video missives from Majestic Theaterworks, Courtney McLean, Synapse Arts Collective, Timothy Mooney Repertory Theater, Hiram Pines, Three Stickes Theater Company and Jimmy Hogg...

Video Updates - Video sample overviews from Guess Who's Coming To, Dario and Bario, Christopher Lueck, Wilson Loria, 3 Crazy Sons, Fresh Meat, Majestic Theaterworks, Courtney McLean, Synapse Arts Collective, Timothy Mooney, 3 Sticks Theatre, and Jimmy Hogg...

CUE TO CUE - a TV show covering theater in the Twin Cities

Cue to Cue - 2006 Minnesota Fringe Festival Broadcast Schedule

Cue to Cue - 2006 Minnesota Fringe Festival Broadcast Schedule

Mail Call - Week 7ish

Cue to Cue and the Out of Towners - A Noble Experiment

Cue to Cue - 2006 Minnesota Fringe Festival Broadcast Schedule

Fringe Archive - 2007 - TV Coverage, Video Samples, and such

Each year, the locally produced TV show which I host, "Cue To Cue - A Conversation About Theater In The Twin Cities" tapes several episodes spotlighting the Fringe. These are the posts related to the episodes focusing on the 2007 Minnesota Fringe Festival...

Cue To Cue overview of the recent past

2007's Call for Video Samples from Out of Town Fringe Artists

A second call to the out-of-towners

The Last Minute Scramble before taping

Out of Towner videos, part 1

Out of Towner videos, part 2

In Studio and In Front of the Camera

Out of Towner videos, part 3

Out of Towner videos, part 4

Cue to Cue 2007 Broadcast schedule and episode/guest breakdowns

The latest schedule for Fringers on TV...

A strangely interconnected trio of Starr, Scott & Bill (and their three shows)...

Fringe 2007 - Fringe TV is on the air

The pairings of guests in each episode, and the beginnings of the broadcast schedule, can be found here...

Fringe TV - Home Stretch

It's like the interview of Dorian Gray and I'm the portrait rotting in the attic...

Fringe 2007 - Fringe TV - Technical Difficulties

Comfort zones for artists get really elastic around Fringe time...

Fringe 2007 - Fringe TV - The Things People Say To Me...

Suddenly you're on the subject of necrophilia, and you wonder when exactly the interview went off the rails...

Love's Prick - Nope

A whole lot of not working on the workshop today - sigh...

Fringe 2007 - Barebones Theatre, an addendum

Now, if I just read all my email every day, I'd be much better informed...

Love's Prick - How I Get Distracted

And I wonder why I don't get more of my own art work done...

Fringe 2007 - Fringe Mailbox - Barebones Theatre Productions

Every now and again, I get a pleasant surprise. Jimmy Hogg, Emily Mowren, and Barebones Theatre Productions would be three...

Fringe 2007 - Fringe Mailbox, day 2

Opened the little metal door with my key today to find the PO box clogged yet again with video offerings from visiting Fringers...

Tim Mooney, hailing from Illinois (who brought us last year's creepy sci fi comedy thriller Criteria) back again, this time with a completely different offering - Moliere Than Thou. (Something my fellow blogger Phillip is looking forward to with undisguised glee - and vows to get me to see.) - www.timmooneyrep.com

William Whitehurst (who wins the distance award, sending from Paris, France) and Act Provocateur International

[Warning, their current production of "La Ronde" is - well, it's "La Ronde," so it is naturally a bit racy - not for viewing at work perhaps]

presenting his play "Pigeon Man Apocalypse" (with a backstory for the performer involved that kind of blew my mind) - www.actprovocateur.net

and

The guys of The Cody Rivers Show, out of Bellingham, Washington. It's a mini-tape, so I'm kind of bummed I can't watch it. Have to pass that tape of "Flammable People" directly on to my producer Carol sight unseen. But their website offers a whole host of stuff to peruse - And yeah, I took one look and thought "Tall, handsome, most likely gay-friendly, clowns. I think they just found their demographic in me." I am such an easy mark sometimes. - www.codyrivers.com

Hope to preview some of these last two days' worth of video over my lunch break.

Fringe 2007 - The Fringe Mailbox Is Full Again

Four out of state Fringe artists submitted video missives for possible inclusion in the Fringe TV show...

Back In Business, The Next Five Years

Site's back up.

Email's back on track - although the reboot did dump a lot of the older messages I was still parsing through, so I'm glad I downloaded them all a few days before to the laptop. Phew. Figured out that interface just in time.

The problem - totally my own doing.

Back when I first purchased the domain, back on May 23, 2001 (I know), I was still under my previous (first) email address, which I'd had for several years.

So, since the new email account hadn't yet been set up, that old email address was the default for contact for things like, oh, messages saying, "Hey, your domain name registration is about to expire."

And I never changed it.

So, the warnings this time went pinging off into the ether, maybe bouncing back, maybe never to be seen again.

Only thing is, I never got 'em.

First time I signed on for the domain, so we could begin developing the site, I signed on for a year.

May 23, 2002, I re-upped for five years.

Which would put the new drop dead date at May 23, 2007.

It came. It went.

And down went the site.

In unraveling what had happened, my web guru friend discovered the email issue.

First thing I did was went into the account management software and updated to the current email address.

Then I re-upped retroactively for another five years (the max they allow).

May 23, 2012

Kind of makes you stop and think.

The original site didn't even launch until November of 2003 (Thanksgiving Weekend, my 20th high school reunion).

By then, I had my first Fringe blogging season behind me, and I'm about to head into number five. The TV show Cue To Cue launched with spotlight episodes on the Fringe Festival is heading into year five as well.

The site's about to go through a major overhaul.

Since I first purchased the domain, while it was still in development, I crewed my last two AIDS Rides as a member of bike parking.

Saw Studpuppy hit the stage for the first time at Allegheny College - with 9/11 landing right in the middle of our tech week.

Worked on my first musical, The Hopes and Fears of All The Years, out at Cal State Fullerton. Even tried my hand at song lyrics for the first time.

And since sticking my own little flag down on the surface of the internet, there have been seven passes at the old 24 Hour Play Project with Theatre Unbound (the last of which I realize I still haven't posted yet), four go-rounds with the Chicago Avenue Project for Pillsbury House Theater, a couple of servings of Thirst at Joe's Garage, a Play Date, and a mythological adaptaion.

There's been a Fringe show of my own, the last gasp of a local ten minute play festival that used to mean a lot to me, and another mounting of Studpuppy.

There's also a been a little bit of publication, with monologues from Studpuppy, Heaven and Home, and Leave (The Surface of the World).

Just had the pleasure of spending another fall developing a new play at Allegheny College. And the videotapes of that endeavour, But Not For Love, just arrived in the mail the other day - right as the website was gasping for some attention, and renewal.

And now I'm heading into the home stretch on a workshop project funded by the Minnesota State Arts Board, the larger play, Love's Prick, from which the Allegheny play last fall was spawned.

Where will I be in the next five years, when May 23, 2012 rolls around and the internet wants a little attention, and some additional outlay of my money, again?

Good question.

The last five years haven't been as filled with missed opportunities as I'd feared, looking back.

Gives one hope for the next five year plan - particularly since I'm going to be a bit more deliberate about it.

Not that bouncing around hasn't yielded some interesting results...

My Website and Email Are Down

Hi all

Hopefully by the time any of you wonder where I am or why I'm not responding, this will be resolved.

As of 6pm last night, my site went down, taking the email account with it.

First it was non-responsive with a standard error page, then it was a "Hey, this domain name has expired. Find out how to renew it today" page.

As far as I know, my domain name has not expired.

Something weird is going on, but until it's resolved, I'm kinda screwed.

For the time being, I'm running things through a secondary email address

meverett_mn1@comcast.net

Gee, play coming up in three weeks, TV studio taping in less than a week, I wonder if I could dream a worse time for something like this to happen.

Hmmm...

Nope, not coming up with anything at the moment.

Once my feeble online life is restored, I'll let ya know.

Sigh.

Fringe 2007 - Fringe TV - The Scramble

Seems no matter how far in advance we start, no matter how well we plan, no matter how many people express interest in doing the TV show, we always end up at this point sooner or later...

Fringe 2007 - Last Call for Video, Deadline May 31

Handy link reference for video submissions from out of state and international Fringe artists visiting as part of the 2007 Minnesota Fringe Festival...

Fringe 2007 - National Fringers, Check Your Email

A call for information, and video samples, from out of town Fringers visiting the Minnesota Fringe Festival in August.

Details here, here, and here...