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New Orleans Fring Offers 'Fringe Pu-Pu Platter' 10/24

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Try Our Fringe Pu-Pu Platter: Tiny Festival Tastes October 24, 8-11 pm
Come sample Fringe shows that will be at the New Orleans Fringe Festival in November. Fifteen shows will present short pieces. Enjoy drinks and food and Fringe... Emilie Whelan is emcee! At the Sidearm Gallery at 1122 St. Roch on October 24, at 8 -11 pm. FREE!

Chef's Special Menu:
Major Swelling's Salvation Salve Medicine Show - Goat in the Road and Cripple Creek
Rock in Her Pocket - Alix Angelis
Play. Music. Heal. - Acting Up (in Acadiana)
Love in the Time of Swine Flu - Stupid Time Machine
Sensitive Boys - Chard Gonzalez Dance Theatre
Un Route - Artist Inc.
Be My Bunny - Tally-Ho Daredevils
GoodChildren Parade - GoodChildren Carnival Club
Tragedy Plus Distance - Reptilian Theater
Five Monologues in Search of a Play - Adam Falik
Badu-izms: A Tribute to Erykah - Keen-Amity Publishing and Entertainment
Curiouser: An Historical Inaccuracy - Skin Horse Theater
Dying to Say This to You - Blacklisted Theatre Company
The Pomology of Sweetness and Light - The Black Forest Fancies
Splatter House Theatre - La Nuit Comedy Theater
Special thanks to Amanda Buberger, Popgun Paul, Scotty Heron and the Sidearm Gallery and Fringe Volunteers.

This year's Fringe will be a extraordinary week of theater of all types, featuring over 45 groups and over 100 shows from New Orleans and around the country. Opera buffa, drama, cryptic revival, physical clown-theater, dark comedy, cabaret, romance noir, overhead projector shadow puppetry, butoh, hip hop, dance theater, environmental performance, puppet aerial musical....and many other innovative, original, provocative, beautiful shows. There is something for everyone. Set aside November 11-15 to catch as many as you can. http://www.nofringe.org/shows_2009.html
http://www.nofringe.org

Fringe Festival tickets are cheap and easy.

All Festival tickets are $7 (with one-time purchase of Fringe button) and all are general admission seating. A Fringe ticket will get you into any Fringe show (that means there are not specific tickets for specific shows). Buying them ahead of time is worth it: pre-sale tickets get priority seating at every show. Fringe fanatic? Get the 5-show pass for $30. Click here to purchase now: http://www.ticketweb.com/snl/EventListings.action?orgId=26801. Fringe shows are throughout New Orleans, primarily in the Marigny and Bywater.

 

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