How Many FringeNYC 2007 Performers Can You Identify?
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How many FringeNYC 2007 performers can you identify?
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Row 1:
Lauren Seikaly, Lynne Rosenberg, Katharine Heller, and Brenna Palughi in my pick for best show of the festival, Naked in a Fishbowl.
Jessi Gotta
and Maggie Cino
are playful, sexy, and adorable in Antarctica.
Row 2:
Writer/performer Doug Tompos in his stellar one-man show, Bent to the Flame: A Night with Tennessee Williams.
Nathan Cuckow
and Chris Craddock
use rap to promote tolerance in one of the festival's most popular shows,
Bash'd: A Gay Rap Opera.
Row 3:
Katsumi Sakakura and Eiko mix their martial arts nunchaku skills with hip-hop dance in Orientarhythm.
Yoko Myoi is an exceptionally graceful chimp exploring 1920's Shanghai in her puppet show The Monkey Moo.
Row 4:
Allison Altman shows herself to be a young actress to keep an eye on, delivering one of the most appealing and delightful performances in the festival as the star of Mary Brigit Poppleton is Writing a Memoir, one of the Encore Series selections.
Using a keyboard and Mountain Dew, Brian Bielawski juggles tech support with saving the world in Gamers, my pick for best one-person show of the festival.
How many FringeNYC 2007 performers can you identify?
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Row 5:
Naomi Emmerson pays tribute to a legend in Piaf: Love Conquers All, one of the Encore Series selections.
Priscilla Barnes
is the first female U.S. President in Hillary
Agonistes, another Encore Series selection.
Row 6:
In Tragedy! (A Musical Comedy), an ultra-violent parody of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, Francis Van Wetering as the ill-fated Roman General contemplates blowing off the head of brother Marcus Andronicus (played with stylish wit by Thomas Baumgardner).
Raymond J. Lee tries to befriend McKinley Belcher III in the multi-racial musical Victor Woo: The Average Asian American.
Row 7:
Kelly Kinsella tries to conquer NYC theatre while slaving away at menial jobs in my pick for best one-woman show of the festival, Kelly Kinsella Live! Under Broadway.
The delightful Mary Theresa Archbold finds a unique way to shut up husband Pat Shay in her funny and touching autobiographic show Jazz Hand: Tales of a One Armed Woman.
Row 8:
A few of the many faces of extraordinary actress Susan Louise O'Connor, who delivers one of the best comedic performances of her impressive career in Susan Gets Some Play.
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Row 9:
Internationally acclaimed clown Gardi Hutter wages war while doing wash in Joan of ArPpo.
Part of the cast from Bukowsical!—which consists of Brad Blaisdell, Marc Cardiff, Nadia Ahern, Matthew Garland, Ian Gould, Fleur Phillips, Michael Lanahan, and Lauren Rubin—in one of the best scenes of the show: Charles Bukowski receiving creative guidance from the ghosts of fellow alcoholics William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, and Sylvia Plath.
Row 10:
Rhianna Basore delivers a sensual, naughty performance that steals the show in The Terrible Girls.
The cast of End's Eve: The Feast of 2012—Tim Smallwood, Marnye Young, Ethan Matthews, Devon Berkshire, Patrick Knighton, Lauren Orkus, Tony Naumovski, Chance Mullen, and Nic Few—watch a newscast about what might be the last day on Earth.
Row 11:
The festival's hit confessional show about eating disorders, 36:24:36, was a thorough group effort. It was both written and performed by Ann Malinowsky and Stephanie Schweitzer (in background); Naomi McDougall Jones, Candice Holdorf, Erin O'Connell, and Danielle Tafeen (in foreground); and Danielle Tafeen (not pictured); and was co-written and directed by James Duff.
Shayna Stevenson and Kathleen Philips in a particularly spooky moment from The Rat King Rock Opera.
Row 12:
Will Ditterline and Liz Dailey in Riding the Bull, one of the Encore Series selections.
A few of the spectacular dancers in Anna and The Annadroids: Clone Zone.
Photo Group 4: What's Wrong With This Picture?
How many FringeNYC 2007 performers can you identify?
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Row 13:
Megan Tusing, Mather Zickel, and Lauren Cook—one of the strongest casts in the festival—strive to be a happy family in Alex Goldberg's darkly ironic Stock Home.
TJ O'Brien and Brenda Jean Foley struggle to play happily in Juliet Jeske's even more darkly ironic Princess Sunshine's Bitter Pill of Truth Funhouse
Row 14:
Matthew Francis plays a small mob of opposing voices in his one-man show about religious views of homosexuality, The Gospel According to Matthew.
Row 15:
Byron Yee's expressive faces in his autobiographical one-man show Paper Son, one of the Encore Series selections.
Elizabeth Palin, Duke Doyle, Ben Lewis, and Gabe Levey act out the surreal tale of Theremin, the inventor of the first musical instrument played without physical contact.
Row 16:
Superb sketch comedy troupe Drop Six—Tim Girrbach, Marcus Bonnée, Rodney Umble, and Alicia Levy—offer their guess as to what the Amish do instead of watching TV.
Katharine Heller and Brenna Palughi share a private moment in the Encore Series selection Naked in a Fishbowl.
Special thanks to George Rand, FringeNYC photographer extraordinaire, for photos 6 (Monkey Moo), 7 (Mary Brigit), 10 (Hillary), 11 (Tragedy!), 12 (Victor Woo), 15-17 (Susan triptych), 18 (Joan), 19 (Bukowsical!), 20 (Terrible Girls), 21 (End's Eve), 23 (Rat King), 29-31 (Paper Son composite), 32 (Theremin), and 34 (Naked in a Fishbowl).
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