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Time Out New York's Fringe Binge 2009
Abraham Lincoln's Big Gay Dance PartyLast year, we at Time Out New York took a radical approach to the massive New York International Fringe Festival: We promised that we would see and review every one of the festival's nearly 200 plays. People said it couldn't be done. Or wouldn't. Or shouldn't. But it was. It was done. And we saw that it was good.
So now we're going to do it again.
That's right: we're reviewing everything. There are 201 shows in this year's festival, and we are reviewing every single one of them, from America's Next Top Bottom: Cycle 5! to Zipperface!!?!: The Hobo Musical. We're reviewing everything even if it kills us, which it might, or just hurts us very badly, which it surely, surely will.
Reviewing 201 shows in two weeks is no easy task. So, in the democratic spirit of the Fringe itself, TONY’s Theater department has gone wide: Thanks to a frenzy of in-house conscription, more than 150 different TONY staffers—writers, editors, designers, photographers, marketers, even interns—have now chosen at least one show apiece, at random, from a thick stack of Fringe postcards and press releases. Over the next few weeks, our ragtag army will fan out below 14th Street to sample this year’s festival fare and report on their findings. Some of our guinea-pig scriveners are seasoned reviewers; others will be taking their first shot at drama criticism. The breadth of this range strikes us as true to the nature of the Fringe Festival: an unpredictable mix of well-seasoned expertise and uncooked enthusiasm.
Wish us strength.
Shows with star ratings (noted below) have been reviewed. Check back regularly to see new reviews as we post them. And for full details on the festival, visit fringenyc.org.
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Abraham Lincoln’s Big Gay Dance Party
Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer
America's Next Top Bottom: Cycle 5!
And She Said, He Said, I Said Yes
And Then You Die (How I Ran a Marathon in 26.2 Years)
Artifex: The Artistic Life of Emperor Nero
Baby Wants Candy: the Improvised Musical With Full Band
Baking with Bertha: Back-to-School Special
Bargains & Blood (How to Succeed in Home Shopping!)
Bitch! (The Autobiography of Lady Lawford, As Told to Buddy Galon)
Buddy Becker's Big Uncut Flick
Cephalopod: A Play Below Sea Level
A Contemporary American's Guide to a Successful Marriage
Dante’s Divina Commedia – Inferno
Don't Be Scared! It's Only a Play
Every Love Story Ends in Tears
Far Out: The New Sci-Fi Musical Comedy
George and Laura Bush Perform . . . Our Favorite Sitcom Episodes
GirlPower: Voices of a Generation
Graveyard Shift: The American Tragedy Musical
Gutter Star: The Paperback Musical
Hear What’s in the Heart—A Shoemaker’s Tale
Home is the Sailor, Home From Sea
I Can Has Cheezburger: The MusicLOL!
John and Greg's High School Reunion
Kaddish (or The Key in the Window)
Love Money: A Recession Rock Musical
M: An Adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth for Three Actors
Mark Storen's A Drunken Cabaret
May-December with The Nose and Clammy
The Most Mediocre Story Never Told!
Notes on the Land of Earthquake & Fire
Ones By 2: Fallujah and the Invention of Zero
Pie-Face! The Adventures of Anita Bryant
Poppy! An Enchanted Evening with Poppy Bulova
Professor Ralph's Loss of Breath
Scandalous People: A Sizzling Jazzical
The Secret of Our Souls-A Kabalistic Love Story
Singin' Wid a Sword in Ma' Han'
Some Editing and Some Theme Music
Sorority Queen in a Mobile Home
Spitting in the Face of the Devil
Truth Values: One Girl's Romp Through MIT's Male Math Maze
Two on the Aisle, Three in a Van
Ukrainian Eggs: Terrible Tales of Tragedy and AlleGorey
The Unlikely Adventure of Race McCloud, Private Eye
Victoria and Frederick for President
The W. Kamau Bell Curve: Ending Racism in About an Hour
White Horses: An Irish Childhood
Willy Nilly: A Musical Exploitation of the Most Far-Out Cult Murders of the Psychedelic Era
Winnemucca (Three Days in the Belly)
A World Elsewhere! Arias in the Key of Clown
Time Out New York / Issue 724 : Aug 13–19, 2009
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Re Fringer's comment: Rather than try to decide whether TONY or nytheatre.com coverage is superior, I'd rather simply express gratitude for both. The more intelligent voices focused on the festival, the better. And in that spirit, please consider visiting my own site, http://HyReviews.com, which has been covering FringeNYC since 2004. It provides way fewer reviews, but offers other features no one else does, such as shows ranked by preference, a list of sold out performances, and top video clips.
The Jungle Fun is WONDERFUL. It's a GREAT show with a very bright future!!! Everyone should check it out.
You folks at Time Out need to get over to The K of D, An Urban Legend. It's the best show I've seen all festival, and definitely the best I've seen in 4 years of fringe-ing. 5 stars from me.
If you think TO is harsh you should read the stuff at fusiononthefly.com Great for finding the offbeat restaurant to eat, but damn he has NO mercy with these kids....Read Sex and The Holy Land. Very funny, very harsh.
I thought the review of A Rule of Nines was way harsh- I saw the show and enjoyed it. Though a bit confusing, I thought there were definitely positive things about it, and you just bashed it.
"Sunday Best" has the latest show in the Fringe - Sat. Aug., 22 at 11:45pm, so we thought we'd do something for the late crowd! We're hosting "Dessert Theater." Your admission will include free champagne, non-alcoholic drinks, and DESSERT! Yum!
TONY isn't the only outlet covering every Fringe show. NYTheatre.com has been doing it since 2002, and they tend to elicit far more thoughtful reviews: http://www.nytheatre.com.