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#50Fringe NYC?
Posted: 8/23/10 at 3:48am
Caught the last performance of Have a Nice Life… good cast, well done live musical accompaniment, but the book and (mostly well done) musical numbers are rudderless. I enjoyed my time well enough, but can't honestly recommend it. Not that it matters, since it's closed. Heh.
Bunked! was a lot of fun overall. The music was exceptional for the most part if lacking in variation and the lyrics depend entirely too much on unbearably trite rhyming. (there are youtube videos of some of the better songs you can check out)
Performances were excellent and Amanda Cooper is utterly fantastic. The book is wildly derivative but cute and entertaining nonetheless.
Bubble-gum sweetness that's not for everyone, but it definitely has popular appeal. Fans of Glee will be over the moon, the audience reaction was big, and it's pretty much guaranteed an encore slot.
wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#51Fringe NYC?
Posted: 8/24/10 at 1:36pm
I saw William And The Tradesmen which was OK
and yesterday saw The Tim and Micah Project, a sketch comedy piece which was funny, fit into my time schedule and I felt like seeing something amusing as opposed to a drama about wars
The Times skewered Fringe today
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/24/theater/24fringe.html?_r=1&ref=theater
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
Updated On: 8/24/10 at 01:36 PM
MrMidwest
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/05
#52Fringe NYC?
Posted: 8/24/10 at 2:50pmAny comments on Reiko Aylesworth's performance in Lost and Found? I liked her a lot on 24.
"The gods who nurse this universe think little of mortals' cares. They sit in crowds on exclusive clouds and laugh at our love affairs. I might have had a real romance if they'd given me a chance. I loved him, but he didn't love me. I wanted him, but he didn't want me. Then the gods had a spree and indulged in another whim. Now he loves me, but I don't love him." - Cole Porter
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#53Fringe NYC?
Posted: 8/24/10 at 5:48pmIf you're interested in seeing VERITAS, I have it from someone involved in the production that they are feverishly attempting to add more performances.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#54Fringe NYC?
Posted: 8/25/10 at 2:15amGetting Even With Shakespeare, a bit uneven in it's mix of very high and low brow humour but enjoyable overall. If the clever premise holds any appeal to you at all, then you'll likely find it a worthwhile outing.
morgan hanrahan
Swing Joined: 8/25/10
iagowasframed
Understudy Joined: 3/10/10
#56Fringe NYC?
Posted: 8/25/10 at 9:50am
I saw Richard III the post-apocalyptic punk musical version. It is over so you can't see it now but I thought it was well done. The music struggled at times to blend in with the show but when it worked it worked really well.
I took my 11 year old son, and he enjoyed it and the only musical he has ever really liked was Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson so that is high praise from him.
skyhook
Swing Joined: 8/4/10
#57Fringe NYC?
Posted: 8/25/10 at 10:03am
Finally saw Pope the musical the other day. SO much better than when I saw it at the Maganet Theatre last year. The new cast is incredible. The vocals blow the roof off the theatre! Here's some reviews I have found for Pope. SO worth seeing. I think they only have 1 or 2 performances left.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703447004575449461115675510.html
http://oscaremoore.com/pope-an-epic-musical-–-fringe-fest-nyc
http://www.stage-rush.com/2010/08/fringenyc-review-pope-the-musical/
skyhook
Swing Joined: 8/4/10
#58Fringe NYC?
Posted: 8/25/10 at 10:24am
Found another Pope review
http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/review_fnyc.php?t=pope10658
#59Fringe NYC?
Posted: 8/25/10 at 11:50amMidwest, Lost & Found was very well acted by all. I hope others see this play.
#60Fringe NYC?
Posted: 8/27/10 at 2:29pm
The Broadway Doctor does Jurassic Parq: The Musical
How To Make Kevin McCollum Roll His Eyes And Look At His Watch
Trust Me, I'm a Doctor.
rjm516
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/24/09
#61Fringe NYC?
Posted: 8/27/10 at 2:34pmI saw POPE! on Wednesday and LOVED IT! The cast really is great, and there are some great standouts (the actors playing Pope and the Archbishop especially). If anyone can see it tomorrow (I think it's the last show), go. So, so funny.
#62Fringe NYC?
Posted: 8/27/10 at 3:21pm
Seeing Veritas this afternoon. Saw the recent reading and am really excited to see it again.
I didn't think When Last We Flew was quite the beauty that some others did, and it needs a lot of work, but it has some lovely moments and definite potential.
#63Fringe NYC?
Posted: 8/28/10 at 2:03am
Sorry I'm so late to this thread (only 2 nights left of Fringe, before the Encore series)
I have seen:
PRINCES OF PERSUASION (2 out of 10 stars)
Completely bizarre one-man-band accompanied by 5 robotic puppets with next-to-zero plot (and some PowerPoint illustrations)
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY WAY (10 out of 10 stars)
Phenomenal 2-person show (with over 20 characters) about 2 actors hired by the LAPD in the 1920s to entrap homosexuals. Truly engaging, historically interesting and entertaining. Hope it has legs after Fringe (following its Boston run)
THE HETEROSEXUALS (4 out of 10 stars)
Cookie-cutter love-affair/ruined-marriage story. Horrible book in spite of the actors' best-efforts to make it somewhat engaging.
SHH! (5 out of 10 stars)
A feeble attempt to encompass some of today's issued with censorship. I love experimental black-box theatre as much as any other New Yorker, but this Boston sextet just seemed to be trying to hard and missed some good opportunities to make a point and find a good laugh.
THE MORNING AFTER/THE NIGHT BEFORE (10 out of 10 stars)
Truly hilarious book musical about 6 friends trying to remember what happened at a party the previous evening. Full of laughs and not-expected twists. A great window into modern-day post-college love life. I hope has legs after the Fringe
VERITAS (8 out of 10 stars)
Was sold-out and lots of hype. Ten fantastic men portraying a rarely-known true story of Harvard students incriminated for homosexual acts. Honest, transparent, somewhat violent, cerebral.
WHEN LAST WE FLEW (10 out of 10 stars)
Fantastic! The best thing I've seen so far. Truly phenomenal story, performances, so well constructed and polished. A real gem that must have a life off-bway. A black gay boy seeks self-actualization through "Angels in America" and an equally-engaging parallel story of a high-school girl finding her identity outside the margins of her race and education.
Updated On: 8/28/10 at 02:03 AM
#64Fringe NYC?
Posted: 8/28/10 at 4:12am
Thanks for the reviews EugLoven! Think I'm going to try and get tickets for The Morning After tomorrow to round out my already packed day.
There was a thread with someone asking for recommendations for this weekend but it seems to have dropped off the front page. tking I think?
In any case, this site has top picks broken down by day for Sat and Sunday including clips from all the major review sites and video trailers to boot:
http://nycfringeguide.com/
iagowasframed
Understudy Joined: 3/10/10
#65Fringe NYC?
Posted: 8/28/10 at 12:03pmSaw Jurassic Parq and Getting Even with Shakespeare yesterday. Getting even was fun and entertaining. Jurassic Parq was hilarious! I loved every second of it, the Brilliant "Morgan Freeman" the funny choreography, fast paced staging, great lyrics, decent book(just not as good as the rest but still good), T-Rex #2 just killed me, and I thought I was going to have a stroke from laughing at Mime-a-sourus during the power ballad. Best Fringe I've seen so far!
#66Fringe NYC?
Posted: 8/29/10 at 1:41am
Ampersand reviews of shows today…
3Boys (4.5/5) Fresh & Profound
The Timing of a Day (4/5) Intimate & Moving
Pope! (3.5/5) Clever & Hilarious
#67Fringe NYC?
Posted: 2/13/11 at 4:01am
For anyone who loved POPE!, you might be interested to know that the writer, Justin Moran, is throwing together a Spider-Man musical on a budget of zero dollars to open before Julie Taymor's.
The Spidey Project
RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
#68Fringe NYC?
Posted: 2/13/11 at 3:15pmAlso, on a side note. Apparently Jurassic Parq is getting a run this summer in NYC.
ttsk
Swing Joined: 8/7/11
#69Fringe NYC?
Posted: 8/8/11 at 2:17pm
Jurassic Parq is indeed transferring off-Broadway this fall!
The same team that brought you Jurassic Parq at last year's fringe / the producers behind the transfer have another project this year at the fringe -- THE THREE TIMES SHE KNOCKED. It's going to be an intense psyhological thriller -- different than Jurassic Parq but a hit nonetheless.
Check it out.
https://offoffbroadway.broadwayworld.com/article/THE-THREE-TIMES-SHE-KNOCKED-Opens-At-NY-Fringe-813-20110804
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