Fringical!: A Fringical!!
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SHOW INFORMATION
Opened Sep 16, 2004
Closed Oct 2, 2004
1hr. 5min.
FESTIVAL INFORMATION:
This show is part of the NYMF 2004 Festival.
WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
A musical romp lampooning bad theater from way downtown to the Great White Way.
August in New York City can only mean one thing: It's getting kind of Fringy. This new musical romp has something to say about the NYC's current theatrical climate.
You need to see the only show in town where the Hilton sisters team up with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen while Rosie O'Donnell and Michael Reidel come dangerously close to falling in love.
The show features Michael Cyril Creighton (Hermitage of an Exiled Chain Smoker, NYC Fringe 2003), Billy Eichner (Nicky Goes Goth, NYC Fringe 2004) along with Emilee Dupree, Patrick Heusinger, Anne Jacoby, Maureen Straub, and Ryan Vaughn.
Book by Sam Forman and Thomas Kail; Music by Eli Bolin; Lyrics by Sam Forman; Musical Staging by Neil Stewart; Directed by Thomas Kail.
THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:
New York, NY 10019
This off Broadway space has three theaters on the premises: the 45-seat Beckmann, 140-seat Chernuchin and the 65-seat Sargent.
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[Ed. Note: This is the second in a series of TM review roundups of shows in the New York Musical Theatre Festival.]
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