FringeNYC 2012 - Your Personal Guide to The 16th Annual New York International Fringe Festival

Hy on the Fringe: Your Personal Guide to the

2012 New York International Fringe Festival

This Cancellations Page Most Recently Updated: Monday August 27th 2012

FringeNYC Canceled Performances

Hurricane Irene

This FringeNYC Guide page is typically a minor one, including merely a canceled performance here and there.

That is, until last year—when Hurricane Irene started heading for New York. Mayor Bloomberg chose to close all mass transit starting noon on Saturday August 27th, 2011; and FringeNYC decided it had no choice but to end the festival two days early.

Ironically, the final FringeNYC show on Friday night—running from 10:45 to past midnight—was Brave Ducks, a play about a massive storm that turns lives upside down. I attended the performance, and the show's ushering audience members into a darkened theatre with flashlights, and periodically simulating lightning and thunder before the play even began, was an eerily relevant way to conclude what was otherwise a spectacularly successful festival.

Thankfully, this year the Festival returned to its usual routine of just a rare missed performance. There was only one:

Girl in Argentine Landscape: Thursday August 23rd at 7:00 pm performance was canceled. Naomi Grossman, the writer/performer of this one-woman show, received word that she was needed back home in LA for her recurring role in FX's American Horror Story. With only the 8/23 performance left in her festival run, Grossman naturally decided it was best to honor her contractual commitment to this acclaimed TV series. Look forward to seeing this talented actress, who has natural gifts for both comedy and horror, in AHS this season.

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