Because of Starfighter stuff, I was only able to see a few Fringe shows this year.
I saw Bukowsical, Williamsburg the Musical, Lost in Hollywoodland, I Dig Dug, The Outside Man, The Winters' Tale Project, and Show Choir.
The thing about the Fringe Festival, in particular, is that there are over 200 shows accepted into the Festival, and you have to parse through a lot of awful things to find the real gems. Sometimes you see something and just have to wonder how it was accepted into a Festival in the first place. How someone would want to produce it. How someone would think it was worth putting money into. How someone decides what to do with such a large empty space for an hour when the entire audience clears out at intermission. Does the cast continue to play to an empty room?
I really enjoyed Show Choir a lot. A great score, a fabulous cast, lots of parody thrown in, but never too much, never over the top. And great costumes!
I'm also really glad that I saw Bukowsical, although I unfortunately did not get to see a performance that Cason was in. I really wanted to! But it was the only performance I could attend. I bet you were just fabulous when you went on, though. I thought the role of the lawyer was the funniest and most clever part. The whole cast was wonderful. I was there the night DR elmore went, and I very much wanted to stay after with him and say hello to you, Cason, but the show had started late and I needed to make a mad dash to make the next curtain --
Found many things to like, too, in Williamsburg, in The Winter's Tale Project, and in I Dig Dug. And missed a number of shows that I heard very good things about. - Hopefully, they will return again for another run sometime soon.
