Don’t miss your chance to have a sneak peek of what’s to come at the 17th Annual Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival.
Fringe Preview offers 3minute teasers from 30 of our local, national and international arts groups performing at this year’s Fringe. It is your chance to get a jump- start of knowing what you want to attend at this year’s festival –May 15th-26th in Loch Haven Park! You will also learn Fun Fringe Facts and info on HOW TO FRINGE! This event sells out every year at rocket speed. Book your tickets NOW!!!!
When- Monday, April 28th, 2008
Where- The Lowndes Shakespeare Center- Margeson Theatre (ORANGE VENUE) located at 812 E. Rollins St. In Loch Haven Park
ShowTime- 7pm-10pm
(box office opens at 6pm) Beer/Wine & soft drinks available for donation
Ticket price- $16 (includes Fringe button good for the 2008 Festival)
Reservations- can be made by calling the Fringe office- 407-648-0077. Tickets are on sale now and they go fast- PLEASE ensure your spot by reserving in advance. Visa/MC accepted.
$5 Raffle for a chance to win a 2008 Fringe Superpass!!!!!!!
2008 Fringe merchandise and hard copy Fringe programs will be available as well.
April 28th, 2008 is also marks the day the tickets for the festival go on sale online at orlandofringe.org !
Hosts- Genevieve Bernard, Chris Gibson, Beth Marshall & Michael Wanzie
ACT 1
Wanzie Presents&D-Squared Productions & FTM Productions- When Pigs Fly (Orlando)
An exceptionally cheerful, militantly gay musical extravaganza. Phantasmagorical costumes. Lavish production numbers. Irreverent comedy. Starring David Lee, Frank McClain, Sam Singhaus, David Dorman, & Wanzie. This year’s The Lion Queen!
CineDance Jazz Dance and Florida Dance Theatre- MOVE!(Orlando/Lakeland)
What does it mean to move?...to be moved? Film and dance collide on stage as directors of two Florida dance companies collaborate to take you on this provocative journey.
Daack-Evanicki Productions- Alice In Wonderland (Orlando)
A new, contemporary musical adaptation of this classic tale. Adapted and composed by 16-year old Alexander Thomas Ferguson. Written, directed and performed entirely by young performers. World Premiere.
Greater Orlando Actors Theatre-Amanda’s Mix Tape (Orlando)
A quirky romantic comedy about what comes with falling in love: crazy friends, scavenger hunts, spoiling movies, quoting Han Solo, playing quarters, zombie plays, hating Toto and making mix tapes.
Hippity-Doo Productions-Skip Peril and The Players of The Lost Trunk (Orlando)
Film noir, vaudeville, Shakespeare, pirates and more, plus four actors and a plot. Something about a mysterious inheritance. Friends of the Annie Grant winner! From the mind of Eric Pinder.
Orlando Youth Theatre- URINETOWN-The Musical(Orlando)
URINETOWN, water shortage, banning private toilets, must pay to pee. Add a villain, an ingenue, and a hero to start a revolution. add music and you have URINETOWN, THE MUSICAL
Jessica Taylor- Colored Waiting Room (Orlando)
One woman, multi-character bonanza exploration of race! Satirical, Controversial, Political, a TOUR DE FORCE! An unapologetic take on how the world is still black and white!
I.D. 10-t Productions- Mr. Marmalade (Orlando)
Four year-old, Lucy, loves to have tea parties and play house. Unfortunately, her imaginary friend, Mr. Marmalade, is a cocaine-snorting, workaholic who never has time for her.
Voci Dance- perfectly broken (Orlando)
Step right up! See Fringe-favorite Voci Modern Dance explore the freakish beauty of the bizarre. Marvel at the mirthful mysteries of the human form through movement and music.
Original Cast Players- Mister Rose’s Bird and Falling Leaves (Orlando)
Two outrageous and offensive geriatric comedies!! A world of talking plastic birds and geriatric sex! So funny you’ll pee in your seat. (Bring a towel.)
Platinum Blonde Life Productions and Rob Ward & Superfriends- Truth or Dare with Pepe’ (Orlando)
A talk show with a Fringe twist! The World Renowned Pepe Rodrgiguez joins your favorite Fringe celebrities for a fabulously naughty night of Truth or Dare! Different guests each night.
The Warren Acting Company- Reefer Madness The Musical-(Mt. Dora)
This wild uproarious musical that parodies the anti - marijuana propaganda film of the same name is back, live on stage, and funnier than ever!
TV iMature- The Executives (Orlando)
Some things are appropriate for TV. This sketch show isn’t. Prepare to laugh till it hurts with this alternative programming brought to you by The Executives
Randy Productions-New Rochelle (Orlando)
Donna Reed meets Medea as Janine Klein stars in this comedy by John Ryan (MY PAL BETTE) about the sinister side of TVLAND’s happiest family.
DRIP- Wet (Orlando)
A provocative, rock n’roll, performance art show incorporating dance, liquid light projections, and blacklight body painting. "It’s so bad-ass. It’s brilliant." "This is going to be HUGE!" -DRIP audience members.
ACT 2
Daack-Evanicki Productions-Bathhouse: The Musical (Orlando/NYC)
Patron’s Pick. "Freakin ’ Hilarious" says Orlando Sentinel. NYC Cast! New Material! Hot Towel clad men! Please Drop the soap! First stop on the national tour!
Aspen Comedy Works-American Squatter (Aspen, Co.)
From the creator of JESUS IN MONTANA (SOLD OUT Orlando ’07) - another multimedia comedy. From suburbanite to squatter. True story. With pictures! "CRITICS CHOICE Vancouver Fringe ’07"!
Sansregret Productions-WONDERBAR! (Winnipeg,Canada)
A middle aged shop clerk is caught up in a world of glamour, high finance and crime when she falls in love with an international fraud artist.
Mark Baratelli-MarkBaratelli.com (Orlando)
Mark Baratelli improvises a one-man show. Every performance is completely different. "What comic improvisation should be." -NYTheatre.com
Simply Extraordinary Tales- Labor Daze(New Jersey)
Folktelling about birth like you’ve never heard before. History of stirups. Enslaved woman owns her own birth. Scottish Husband breaks taboo 400 years ago. Superbowl birth. Birth of a mother.
Theatre 13- once upon a time: the end (Boulder, Co)
A hilarious journey of a woman struggling with airport security, neurotic relationship to fairytales and society’s obsession to define happiness."...Audience laughed over and over again."-Critic
Gemma Wilcox- Shadows in Bloom- (London, UK)
Gemma Wilcox returns to Orlando with another multi-character theatrical feast and 23 exciting new characters! PICK-OF-THE-BOULDER-FRINGE-2006; "[she] shows you what theater can be." -Elizabeth Maupin, Orlando Sentinel
Rickshaw Boy and Barris International- The Greg Barris Heart of Darkness Rock –N-Roll Circus(NYC/Orlando)
Hailed as simply "Excellent!" by the New Yorker Magazine Greg Barris explores being a man, expanding consciousness, the search for truth and death in this one man comedy spectacular.
Dewey Chaffee Comedy Enterprises, LLC- The Screw You Revue: DeJavu- (Orlando)
2007 Patron’s Pick Winner and self-proclaimed ’Entertainment Legend’ Wayburn Sassy revives his cancelled 1970’s late night talk show.
Massicotte & Kubersky- The Boy’s Own Jedi Handbook (Toronto/Orlando)
The award-winning author of MARY’S WEDDING and the artists behind OBSCENITY and MATADOR present the hilarious saga of two friends’ quest to master the Force... and survive the school play!
Excellent Adventure Productions- Dysfunctional Fables (Orlando)
WORLD PREMIER MUSICAL! - Book by Sean Hartley "Cupid and Psyche". Distinctively modern twists on traditional stories including Gingerbread Boy, Demeter and Persephone, Three Little Pigs AND MORE!
Utmost Productions-Here Be Dragons (Orlando)
A miracle throws together a gay atheist and conservative Christian couple. A metaphysical dramedy from the creators of "My Big Fat Gay Wedding" and "Whipping Wally Wonker".
Kick the Puppy Productions- Oral (Casselberry, Fl.)
Yep. It’s a play about oral sex. Come and share with us as we explore the awkward, sexy, scary, tender, hilarious truth about oral sex!
Appear Whole Entertainment- Wonder Show of The Universe (Orlando)
Do you believe in Ghosts? Experience astonishment and be mesmerized as you witness a historical re-creation of supernatural manifestations and decide for yourself if the spirits really do come back.
babyBlueStar Productions & Invisible Arts (Orlando)
VarieTease:No.24
Seamless collection of choreographed spectacle that will amaze, inspire and entertain. See it. Hear it. Feel it. Again and again. Voted Patron’s Pick in 2007. All new in 2008.