Show: A Canadian Bartender at Butlin's
Venue: Orange Venue (Margeson Theatre @ Orlando Shakespeare Festival)
Show times: 5-21 @ 6:00pm, 5-22 @ 10:50pm, 5-24 @ 9:10pm, 5-25 @ 6:15pm, 5-26 @ 9:25pm, 5-27 @ 2:40pm and 5-28 @ 4:30pm
Tickets: $10

Show: Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Venue: Orange Venue (Margeson Theatre @ Orlando Shakespeare Festival)
Show times: 5-19 @ 10:30pm, 5-20 @ 10:30pm, 5-21 @ 8:10pm, 5-23 @ 9:40pm, 5-25 @ 10:35pm, 5-27 @ 12:30pm and 5-28 @ 6:40pm
Tickets: $10

Show: Life: The Evolution of Man (abridged)
Venue: Green Venue (Tupperware Theatre @ Orlando Repertory Theatre)
Show times: 5-19 @ 10:00pm, 5-20 @ 7:15pm, 5-21 @ 8:00pm, 5-23 @ 6:00pm, 5-25 @ 9:20pm, 5-26 @ 11:20pm and 5-27 @ 1:45pm
Tickets: $10

Gosh, where to start? So much has happened this week!

First of all I want to give some link love to Spider, though I can't say I know this guy's real name. He was one of the first people to comment on the site, pay for a button, call me cute this week (it's on his blog), and remember my name at the ticket booth. He has linked to us multiple times throughout the week, and I bet he is reading this now, so THANK YOU!

I have had multiple opportunities to shake hands with Steve Schneider this week, but I never know what I will say.

Show: Wilson Loria's OENS
Venue: Pink Venue (Mandell Theatre @ Shakespeare Festival)
Show times: 5-19 @ 11:10pm, 5-20 @ 2:35pm, 5-21 @ 3:55pm, 5-22 @ 10:40pm, 5-26 @ 6:00pm, 5-27 @ 12:55pm and 5-28 @ 7:10pm
Tickets: $9

After my first night Fringing (I love the noun to verb transition), I came away with a few impressions of the Festival thus far. This being only my second one, you might consider me unqualified. Untrue - see below!

Show: Fat Camp
Venue: Brown Venue (Orlando Philharmonic @ Shakespeare Festival)
Show times: 5-19 @ 8:40pm, 5-20 @ 11:20pm, 5-21 @ 9:25pm, 5-23 @ 6:45pm, 5-24 @ 10:35pm, 5-27 @ 11:20pm and 5-28 @ 5:00pm
Tickets: $10

If you walk past the line of tents outside of the Shakespeare Festival, it will look like a ghost town. A few of the booths have been unmanned for most of the Fringe thus far and the rest will be vacant until the weekend. We at WHiRR are taking a day-long break to recover from the heat and long hours of the weekend. We'll be back on Tuesday (hopefully) with more one-inch buttons and other robot-y goodness. Our booth has moved closer to the building entrance so you can spend even more time with us before dashing off to the next show.

Show: Improv Cabaret
Venue: Blue Venue (Studio B @ Shakespeare Festival)
Show times: 5-20 @ 2:25pm, 5-21 @ 5:00pm, 5-22 @ 8:25pm, 5-24 @ 6:15pm, 5-25 @ 9:45pm, 5-27 @ 3:45pm and 5-28 @ 12:00pm
Tickets: $7

Mark Baratelli did a very recent guest spot on one of our podcasts, You can't spell crapface without PFA. The show is hosted by Myla Goldberg and The Captain of the Other Team (AKA Ryan Price, who you may have met at Fringe), and is often irreverant and offensive.

If you just can't stand 72 minutes of Mark, Emily and Ryan, I spent 3 hours cutting together this new-and-improved 20-minute-long version for the short of attention span (or time). Here is the link:

Blogging Fringe Podcast 01
fringe_01_baratelli.mp3
Length: 20:16

I haven't seen the show, but I hear that Voci set Paint Chips to a few tracks off Ken Nordine's Colors album, a collection of humorous word jazz. Don't let the phrase "word jazz" scare you off. Nordine has that great 1960s voiceover voice (in fact, I believe he was one).

I was told that neither Nordine nor the album title is mentioned in the program, so pass it along to anyone who inquires.

As Emily and I sat waiting for Fat Camp (which I loved) to start, three young women (whom I later dubbed "the Giggle Squad") were sitting next to us amusing themselves. The one closest to us turns over in the middle of a story and says "this is a funny story". I only caught the tail end, but girl #3 was chasing down her runaway dog, got hit by a car, and forgot all the math she learned in college.

On a break from the booth, I took some time to check out Visual Fringe. The VF artwork is on display throughout the OSF lobby, the Patrons' Room, and the Edyth Bush lobby at the Rep. Much of the artwork would intimidate my robots, so it's best that we're outdoors with the riff-raff.

My favorites of the bunch were "Breaking Free" by Janine L.