05.27.06
Winding Down?
For all my lofty statements about wanting to see a little of everything, I fell victim to peer pressure and saw the show all my friends were going to - TJ Dawe’s. Now I love him, and his show is fantastic, but I feel a little down for not going to see one of the other dozens of shows.
If you didn’t see the audio interview with TJ Dawe - why not? it is very easy to download and listen to. I even took the 2:45 that I cut and made a little clip - because there is some entertaining stuff in there, but it does not serve the interview. Check it out:
Podcast 03 Outtakes
fringe_03_outtakes.mp3
Two more full days of shows to go, and then Monday come the Patron’s Picks, or as I have been calling them, Venue Favorites. The currently announced PPs are as follows:
- Orange Venue: The Lion Queen and the Naked Go-Go Cub (also listed as the Lion Queens for some reason)
- Red Venue: Bathhouse: The Musical!
- Brown Venue: Lilly & Lila’s Lovely Lesbian Hour
- Pink Venue: Mr. Charles, Currently of Palm Beach
I am curious to see what some of the smaller venues end up with: Green Venue - of the three shows I’ve seen there, it was a bit of a toss-up as to the largest crowd.
Mark really has the best marketing this year - great posters, multi-platform promotions, what with the podcasts, leading the pack to MySpace, and the awesome signs I saw in the Round Room today - he was quoting reviews that had only been posted hours before (namely Emily).
Can Fringe really be in a state of deceleration, or is that just the way I see it? Not quite “the Home Stretch” yet, but we are surely Rounding Third, to stick with the baseball terms.
I am proud of this year’s Fringe - I was not in town last year, but from what I understand, the online aspect was almost non-existent. The Sentinel has got great up-to-date coverage, bloggers and MySpacers are posting all the time, I saw some people with video cameras around (which I can only assume will be posted to the web). Now the hard-core Fringers will all be thinking of next year: if people do their homework, there are some insane viral marketing campaigns out there. I hope we won’t be so MySpace reliant in a year - maybe people won’t cringe when I say Podcast and RSS Feed.
May 27th, 2006 at 12:46 pm
Thank you for the shout outs Ryan. You’ve also done a great job of introducing new concepts to a festival that will surely appreciate and learn from them.
I’d love to have a roundtable with you and a few others (Brian Feldman, your co-host for Crapface, other marketing/creative folk) and record a podcast on what the future of Fringe could look like: marketing shows, marketing fringe, and my personal crusade “the end of flyers.” LOL. That might be some good audio and something to share with others.
May 27th, 2006 at 2:34 pm
Hmmm… a “panel of experts” as it were.
How about, Thursday, June 15th at Stardust Video and Coffee? Say, 7PM? (:D)
http://podcasting.meetup.com/65/events/4940663/
May 27th, 2006 at 11:54 pm
Congrats Mark on winning the Blue Venue! The Green Venue has also been announced. Surprisingly enough, it went to Life: The Evolution of Man (Abridged). ???
May 28th, 2006 at 1:38 am
Ok I made some changes to the meeting description. Email me some names of people you’d like to include and I’ll do the same.
Mark
May 28th, 2006 at 2:46 am
Was Green Venue the weakest, and by weakest I mean the farthest, of Orlando Fringe ’06?
And yes, congratulations Mark! “Improv Cabaret” is comic gold! (But don’t quote me on that.)
May 31st, 2006 at 11:28 am
July 15th? Do I have to mark my calendar? Hrrmrmmmmm?