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Decade-Old New York International Fringe Festival Kicks Off Summer 2006, Aug. 11
By Ernio Hernandez
11 Aug 2006
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An assortment of images from this year's Fringe selections.
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The New York International Fringe Festival launches its 10th anniversary season Aug. 11 at various downtown venues, celebrating its decade-long presence with a crop of new works as well as some of the fest's greatest hits.
Produced by The Present Company, the event is headed up by producing artistic director Elena K. Holy. FringeNYC shows and events will take place over two weeks, as usual, and will include artists from around the world. The schedule ends Aug. 27.
For its special anniversary, the Fringe welcomes back 10 productions which played in previous years, including 24 is 10: The Best of The 24 Hour Plays, Americana Absurdum, Complete Lost Works…Samuel Beckett, Minimum Wage: Blue Code Ringo, Never Swim Alone, Pith!, The Bicycle Men, The Pumpkin Pie Show: la petite mortes, Todd Robbins' Carnival Knowledge and Tuesdays and Sundays.
As is tradition, among the more than 200 works are some attention-grabbing titles — some political, some naughty, some long and some all in capitals. Some eye-catching shows are:
An Off-White Afternoon
Anna and The Annadroids: The Robots Dream Tour
Aspiration: Housewife
Big Doolie
BLUE BALLS: In & Out of Uniform with the NYPD
Breathe... Or You Can Die!
Don't Spit the Water!
Eenie Meanie
Fatboy Romeo
Fornicationally Challenged
HA! HA! Club
Happy Sauce
I Coulda Been A Kennedy
I Was Tom Cruise
My Nasty Bitch Wife
Reservoir Bitches
soledad.es
Some Kind of Pink Breakfast
Take On Me (adoption, addiction, and a-ha)
The Armageddon Dance Party
The Fartiste
The Geranium on the Window Sill Just Died
The Impotence of Being Earnest
The Inconstant Infection
The Kitchen Sink
The Penguin Tango
The RABBI and the CHEERLEADER
This Won't Take Long
As previous alumnus Urinetown did, a number of shows announce their genre within their name, including:
...categories (a simple play)
Band Geeks: A Halftime Musical
Fear Up: Stories from Guantanamo and Baghdad
HENRY KISSINGER-A ROMANTIC COMEDY
i want to be MUSASHI: a clown samurai fantasy
It's a Hit (A Killer New Musical)
Melo-llama: A Melodrama
MUSCLE-MAN vs. SKELETONMAN: A Love Story... the musical
Nutmeat: A Burlesque Fairytale
Plugged: A Rock Opera
Suicide, The Musical
The Deepest Play Ever: The Catharsis of Pathos
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Romantic Comedy
The Tell-Tale Heart - a musicabre
And, the standard lengthily-monikered shows feature:
Harriet Hopperdoodle's Hair-Brained History Test!
I'LL SELL THE HOUSE IN WHICH I CAN LIVE NO MORE
Imminent, Indeed (or Polly Peachum's Peculiar Penchant for Plosives)
Moral Values: A Grand Farce or Me No Likey The Homo Touch Touch
Ticket sales are on par with the 2005 Fringe NYC which took in just under $25,000 (all at $15 per ticket) in its first 24 hours. With a growing track record, Fringe NYC has churned out such shows as Off-Broadway's Debbie Does Dallas, Never Swim Alone, 21 Dog Years: Doing Time @ Amazon.com, Matt & Ben, The Joys of Sex and Dog Sees God. The most successful show to come from the downtown exhibitor is Urinetown — which graduated to Off-Broadway, then Broadway and has since toured across the country.
Since its inception in 1996, FringeNYC has been joined by other theatre festivals in New York City: the Midtown International Theatre Festival, the Hip-Hop Theatre Festival, the Summer Play Festival and the New York Musical Theatre Festival among them.
For more information including schedule, production details and volunteer info, call (212) 279-4488 or visit www.FringeNYC.org.
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