Comedy

If only the Three Stooges were still alive: Philly Fringe 2008

We’ve mentioned it here before but the big day (night, actually) is upon us like a stubborn case of the sneezes. Philly Fringe 2008! Opening Night! Can you feel it in the air like madness everywhere? But maybe you have trouble with multiple choices. Maybe you don’t know what to do. Maybe you’re frozen by indecision.

Snap out of it, man! SLAP SLAP SLAP! And if that gentle correction didn’t work I guess I’m going to have to do this the old fashioned way and tell you what to do with a couple of very good performance choices for Thursday, August 28, 2008.

The first is called Disco Descending and has been discussed in depth in this very same space a few days ago but in case you were spearfishing in the Pyrenees, here’s a quick recap. This play is THE Opening Night Kick-Off event at 7:00 pm at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre. That in itself is a good reason to show your pretty face. Choreographer and director Karen Getz returns to the Live Arts Festival after a smash performance in 2006 with Suburban Love Songs. This time around it’s a re-telling of myth of Orpheus and Eurydice in updated to full disco regalia. Dig out your boogie shoes and get thee hence! More information on Disco Descending can be found at the Philly Fringe website here. The Suzanne Roberts Theatre is at 480 South Broad Street.

When Disco Descending ends, get out of there and take off running for The Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival at 2111 Sansom Street, where Ben Affleck Judges You begins at 9:00 pm. I have no idea how far it really is. You might not have to run. This sketch performance is brought to you by the unfiltered minds of Two For Flinching, a fledging comedy group skilled in the fine art of contagious mockery. Who know what the hell they’re going to do? Just make sure you’re in the audience when it happens.

There. Two fine choices for your opening night evening at Philly Fringe 2008. Thank you, thank you! You’re all too kind. I’ll be here the next two weeks telling you how to spend your evenings. It’s the cheapest therapy around.

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