Brian Feldman, dully appointed Grand Marshall of Whatever, opened the line for the first night of shows of Albert Pergande's The Mayor of Orange Avenue. The show is based (I don't know how faithfully) on real Orlando people, places, and events, with the evil Central Hospital wanting to take over the whole block, and the sappy little antique shop that seems to have all odds against it.
The Mayor of Orange Avenue
Pink Venue
5/14 THU 9:50PM, 5/16 SAT 12:00PM, 5/17 SUN 7:10PM, 5/19 TUE 7:40PM, 5/20 WED 11:40PM, 5/23 SAT 4:20PM, 5/24 SUN 3:20PM
Some of your Fringe Faithful have a few things to say about this year's festival, and they've put it in video form. For the lazy, just read the bullet points:
View all the free events during ArtsFest
83 organizations in 75 venues across 4
This year I thought I’d employ a bit of science to my Blogging of Fringe - I was worried the site had turned into all Fringe Crush, all the time, and completely about local acts instead of National and International. I was mostly right.
Here are some handy graphs to point out why we suck:
Here we see Text only posts at 10%
VoiceMail Reviews and audio at 13%
Any non-Fringe Crush videos at 37%
Fringe Crush takes it home with 41%
I came across this Canadian improv troupe somewhere in my web surfing this year, and this week I saw their videos on the Montreal Fringe's Facebook page.
It looks like their show is called "Argument With A Dolphin", and I think they specifically do long-form shows.
TJ Dawe tells us about the moment when he fell in love with Fringe Festivals.