Friday, July 24, 2009
Springboard Tour of the Fringe Festival.
The Minnesota Fringe Festival is fast approaching! Did you know that the MN Fringe is the "largest nonjuried, uncensored Fringe in the United States"? We're big fans of the nonjuried here at Springboard.
This year a whole passel of our fiscal sponsorship & incubator program clients have shows in the Fringe:
Partizan Theater's Something Witchy
Los Angeles. August 9th, 1969. The crime of the century. Celebrity victims. And "the most dangerous man in the world." Sixteen years later, a 'family' member wants to forget. But someone won't let her.
Savage Umbrella's Love Me or Die!
A classic tale of deception and the theater, loosely based on the opera Pagliacci. Guitars, juggling, singing, heart-break, intrigue, death and fried chicken. Part homage. Totally rock and roll.
Opera Bob's Secrets Revealed: Opera Bob Opens His Drawers
These tabloid-worthy scenes from operatic potboilers are guaranteed to satisfy theatergoers, opera virgins, and fussy opera queens alike. The seldom-heard music is by Mozart, Puccini and Verdi with a running commentary by Opera Bob's own resident composer, Dr. Phil Fried. (Who IS Bob anyway?)
Four Humor's Sideways Stories From the Wayside School
The creators of hit shows "Mortem Capiendum", "Bards" and "Deviled Eggs" play in the sideways world of Louis Sachar's Wayside School Novels.
Harmony Theater Company and School's The Sleuth Sisters
The mayor's daughter has been kidnapped. The Sleuth Sisters, two brilliant girls from a children's detective agency, are called in to crack the case. A suspenseful, comic, psychological, whodunit radio drama.
3 Sticks' The Traveling Musicians
Rooster, Donkey, Cat, and Dog have finally made it to the big city! Come dance the night away as they recount through song how their band made it to the top in this one of a kind theatrical rock show.
Urban Samurai's LivelihoodFrom the producers of the Fringe hit Musical: The Musical! and the author of American Apathy, part of City Pages Top 10 plays of 2008, comes Livelihood, a dark comedy that explores our corporate climate and the lure of wealth and power.
Erik Hoover of FTF Works is in Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter
Written by 2005 Nobel Award winner Harold Pinter, two professional killers wait in a seemingly abandoned house for their next "job" until a descending dumbwaiter changes everything for the worse.AND a few other
Springboard-affiliated shows:long-time Springboard board member, Ben Krywosz, and his company Nautilus Music-Theater's Alice Unwrapped
Fifteen year-old Alice Bliss is trying to cope: Dad's missing in action, Mom won't come out of her bedroom, and her precocious little sister just wants a normal family. Somebody needs to take charge.
Springboard spouse, Levi Weinhagen, and Joshua English Scrimshaw, have been using the Springboard office to rehearse their show The Harty Boys and the Case of the Limping Platypus
The Twin Cities' very own sibling detectives tackle another thrilling mystery in this affectionate parody of children's adventure novels. Action for the kids, wit for the adults, comedy for everyone!
Happy Fringe-ing everyone!!
-laura
# posted by laura @ 4:05 PM 
