Days 1 & 2 & 3

There's far too much to write about my experience at the Fringe right now and it's all very very important and simultaneously completely useless. This is the beauty of Fringe. Everybody (for the most part) takes their work extremely seriously here. But nobody takes themselves seriously. Sounds like a blast? It is.

At this point, we've performed two nights in a row and the performances were like night and day. On opening night (which I played only 5 hours after jumping off the plane), we played to a crowd of basically 20 people and the response was good. It's normal for shows here to start off with audiences consisting of basically two people and a dog, so that was to be expected, but the show was really too long and overstuffed. Last night, the show ran rather more crisply and cleanly, thanks to some heavy cutting.

We had a lot of press come last night, and their reaction was that certain acts simply need to be cut from the show. Depending on if, when and/or how this information gets out to the acts themselves, this could cause a major fissure in our company. Here's hoping for the best show possible with the least amount of hurt feelings possible.