Back from a perfectly amateur thing at the Group Rep - not part of the Group Rep, mind you, but a new member decided that some Fringe show that opens on June 7, should do their evening for everyone. They shouldn't have. They should never do it. I don't know if they'll have a pianist for the show, but here they were working with tracks - not one of the three people could sing with the track in terms of actually singing on pitch and not getting ahead or behind it. Of the three, the one guy had the only voice you'd say was a voice, but he was flat the entire time and a schmactor of the highest order, but the ladies were, too. I mean, when you're singing a Sondheim song you don't sing notes that are a third under the written notes and you stay on the damn beat. This is, I suppose a glorified cabaret act, but it purports to tell a story of three people. What that story is I have no idea. This is the living proof that this stupid Fringe festival which everyone thinks is such a big deal to be part of is, in fact, anybody's game. Anyone can be in it doing anything - just pay the fee. Horrible. I'm sorry to have gone on about it, but when I see merde like this it just makes me angry. Good for them for doing something, but not good for doing it in public for paying people.
