Two years ago, John Valines and the Rickshaw Boy crew won the Fringe of the Fringe Award - last year they gave it to Blogging Fringe. Radio Rickshaw is a long-running podcast here in Orlando with a small network of shows, and a barbershop quartet.
Also hosting this episode is Greg Barris from the Heart of Darkness Rock and Roll Circus. I actually don’t know much about Greg, except he used to live in Orlando, and he was involved with SAK Comedy Lab. His show was part monologue and part stand-up comedy, and it was pretty good.
Sometime during the week, I bumped into John and Greg with the Marantz recorder interviewing folks, and they talked to me a bit. I talk about Twitter, USB Humping Dogs and Fringe Shows, and I might be on mushrooms.
Only from the mind of Brian Feldman, the man who jumped off of a 12-foot-high platform in front of City Hall 366 times on Leap Year Day.
Thank you to Cervo Systems for providing bandwidth and hosting for Blogging Fringe.
The file is just an MP3 - no iPod is required to listen to this show, although that is a popular way to enjoy podcasts. We have also made our feed available for easy linking to iTunes or other feed readers.
Front Porch is a weekly radio show hosted by Julie Norris, Proprietor of Dandelion Communitea Cafe, and focuses on all things local. Each week features a different guest making a difference locally with eclectic blends of local music and various ramblings about what is happening in OurLando.
Tune your dial to WPRK 91.5 or listen online at wprkdj.org every Wednesday at noon.
Blogging Fringe is proud to present the cast of this punk-rock-vaudeville-revival show from New York, NY. We are joined by Kym Bernazky, Jim Ford, Max Frey, Andrew Gaines, Suchan Vadoor and Devon Assuncao. Not appearing in this podcast are Alexandra Gray and Katharine Houston.
The file is just an MP3 - no iPod is required to listen to this show, although that is a popular way to enjoy podcasts. We have also made our feed available for easy linking to iTunes or other feed readers.
The file is just an MP3 - no iPod is required to listen to this show, although that is a popular way to enjoy podcasts. We have also made our feed available for easy linking to iTunes or other feed readers.
Wilson Loria, Jeremy Seghers and Brandon Haydon join Ryan Price to speak about To The Winners, a one-man show by Wilson, produced by Jeremy and with original music by Brandon. The conversation gets into the future of theatre and performing arts in general. The White Wolf Cafe was the home of this interview, and a fine lunch was had by all.
The file is just an MP3 - no iPod is required to listen to this show, although that is a popular way to enjoy podcasts. We have also made our feed available for easy linking to iTunes or other feed readers.
The file is just an MP3 - no iPod is required to listen to this show, although that is a popular way to enjoy podcasts. We have also made our feed available for easy linking to iTunes or other feed readers.
It looks like our old acquaintance Mark Baratelli is now in charge of the Orlando Fringe’s MySpace profile (and blogging?). Since things are beginning to take shape on that front, things will start to take shape here as well. I can’t say when, but this site will be moving sometime before the end of the year so we can get some new software installed to help Fringe patrons and artists get a real dialogue going.
I don’t think MySpace is going to be the only way for people to communicate like it was last year. Really, last year’s online discussion took place between performers and geeks and a few of their friends who were on MySpace. This year things will be MySpace heavy, but that website is so horrible I think lots of people who just want quick info will be turned off by it. Some of my thoughts on this are presented in the Fringe Thinktank 01 podcast.
Mark Baratelli of Improv Cabaret and Fransisco Laboy of the McGrawsky Files join Blogging Fringe’s Ryan Price for a thinktank discussion about how future Fringes can be improved for patrons, producers and organizers alike.
The file is just an MP3 - no iPod is required to listen to this show, although that is a popular way to enjoy podcasts. We have also made our feed available for easy linking to iTunes or other feed readers.
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:
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.
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:
