The Fringing has commenced!
Well, WOW.
The fourth Fringe Festival is now underway, and it definitely seems bigger and better than evah.
Last night was the first night of performances on the Fringe, and there seemed to be a really good turnout - which is totally awesome for a Wednesday and the start of the Festival. If I can remember anything except the evening's at the bar series, last year's didn't seem to kick into high gear until the first weekend, so that's a terrific sign.
I wasn't able to experience any fringe shows last night, cause of rehearsal for this little show called Radiant Baby that we're cooking up, but my crew of babies did hit up all of the venues last night with the launch of our ChalkDustMan.com campaign, which was a ton of fun. (Especially when one particularly radiant homeless man started chasing a group of us down the street).
After rehearsal, I had to book it to the final runthru of iLove:. Wow, I'm so proud of this amazing ensemble of artists. This project has been their life for the past year, and it's really come a long way. The work has crystallized into something pretty extraordinary. I can't wait to take it in again tonight, and what I'm sure will be a glorious opening. What stunning work, Satori.
I have to say though, the highlight of my night was the Fringe-i-oke or Yemaoke or whatever they called it at the bar series. I definitely enjoyed taking the last chorus of Santana's "Smooth" up the octave - why? because I could. ;)
Although Hannah Dowdy's spot on rendition of "My Heart Will Go On", featuring Jeff Syroney and Jen Spillane with their amazing impromptu interpretive dance/acting, did put me to shame, methinks.
I will not talk about Luke and him FORCING me to back him up on "You Oughta Know." I'm sooooo sorry, Alanis. I love you. I really do. We'll just act like it never happened.