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Free Tickets Available for the Show 'Illusion' at Cook Theatre
In partnership with Peyton Manning Children's Hospital at St Vincent and the IndyFringe Festival Free Fringe tickets and Festival 'Backer Buttons' will be awarded to the first 130 people at three performances at The Cook Theatre, Indiana Landmarks Center, 1201 North Central Avenue, Indianapolis, 46202. The box office opens 30 minutes before the show commences. Public parking and handicap access is available at Indiana Landmarks Centre.
Saturday, August 20, 3:00 p.m.
Wednesday, August 24, 6:00 p.m.
Sunday, August 28, 4:30 p.m.
Sherlock grew up in Carmel, Ind. and began performing magic when he was eight years old. Since his graduation (2011) from Saint John’s University with a major in Entrepreneurship and Theater, Sherlock transitioned from student to full-time performer. He established the Minneapolis-based production company The Magic of Jared Sherlock in 2000 and continues to tour the nation with his illusion-filled act.
Sherlock makes a contribution to the community with the proceeds from each performance and will make a special performance at the Peyton Manning Children's Hospital at St. Vincent on August 22. Sherlock previously established his own charitable foundation, ArtsNow, and is dedicated to the mission of helping people in need overcome obstacles and achieve their magical dreams.
For more information : www.indyfringe.org Tel: 317 869 6611
Postcards for the shows you want to see!
Talking with Christel Bartelse - 'ONEYmoon (A Honeymoon for One)'
If you could present your show to just one person, who would it be and why?
That's easy -- Chen Wei-yih, a woman in Taiwan who has married herself at age 30 and then went on a solo honeymoon in Australia in October 2010, about 6 months after I had conceived my show on the other side of the world. You can find out more about her here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/22/taiwan-bridetobe-plans-we_n_772431.html#es_share_ended As the bride, I feel like I'm in charge of the guest list, and so I'm also going to invite one of my twitter followers -- a hypnotist from the UK who specializes in quelling pre-wedding jitters.
List 3 words that truly sum up your show.
Hilarious, high-energy and heart-string-pulling. Yes, I know, all those hyphens are cheating -- but when you're married to yourself you can get away with cheating.
What is the best way for theater-goers to stay informed about your latest productions?
Theatre goers can find me on facebook, or check out my website www.christelbartelse.com . In keeping with the wedding theme, I always leave a guestbook out on the table after my show, where guests can leave me their email or write me a note. Sometimes I even get a proposal!
How does fringe theater benefit you as a theater artist/performer?
What is most useful and liberating to me as an artist is the freedom. I get to choose what show i would like to create and write, i choose where i would like to go on tour, and i get to tinker with my show to keep improving it. I've added a tap number, had a song remixed, reordered scenes. If I was performing with someone else I'm sure I would drive them crazy.
Funniest line?
Some of the best lines come from my audience during the short improv parts of my show. I sometimes write these lines in afterward. One of my favorites is during the "bad date scene" in my show where my date said "I heard you tap dance, is that code word for lapdance?"
Where do you see yourself in a year’s time?
I would still love to do the Fringe for the next few years. I am looking forward to creating a new solo show, as well as potentially performing a two hander. I would also like to take my two shows CHAOTICA and ONEYmoon (A Honeymoon for One) to some larger festivals. I also teach physical theatre at a professional acting program at Humber College and sometime guest teach at Second City in Toronto, so its a challenge to manage all those projects at once.
Why IndyFringe?
I was invited to do DivaFest in Indianopolis in April 2011 with my show ONEYmoon. I had a great time, but only 3 shows. When a spot came open for an International Artist at the Fringe and I was asked if I wanted to return, without a second's hesitation I said "I do". The audiences here are so wonderful, the hospitality of the theatre community so warm. Plus, ONEymoon had just been nominated for a 2010 Canadian Comedy Award, so I felt confident that the show could continue to attract an audience. It wasn't just my mom who liked it.
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Following Successful Run at DivaFest, The Wedding Belles Returns to IndyFringe
Nicole Kearney Productions requests the honor of your presence at The Wedding Belles, a musical about Tying the Knot, book and lyrics by Nicole C. Kearney, music by Andre Archat and Montae Clark, August19-28, 2011, Indianapolis, IN as part of the 7th annual IndyFringe Festival.
Tickets are $10.00 for general admission seating and will be available online (The Wedding Belles) or at the door beginning a half hour before show times.
The Wedding Belles, a Musical about Tying the Knot is a one hour musical about Etta, a bride-to-be who on the verge of getting married announces she’s cancelling her wedding. To the rescue come her bridesmaids, recounting their relationship stories helping Etta make sense of where she is in her life and getting her down the aisle.
The cast of The Wedding Belles features the talents of Tiffanie Bridges, Jermaine Woolery, Nicole Miles, Andre Archat, Brittney “B Leigh” Attyberry, Corralejo Moss and Tyrice Turner. The play is directed by Nicole Kearney. The Musical Director is Andre Archat. The music is produced by DREaMusic Ent with choreography by DeNeen Collins
To join the journey visit nicolekearney.com or facebook.com/nicolekearneyproductions. For more information about the play or to schedule interviews contact nicolekearneyproductions@gmail.com or call 317.758.7075.
Performance Details:
IndyFringe Building
IndyFringe Building
Saturday, August 20, 3:00pm; Sunday, August 21, 10:30pm; Wednesday, August 24, 9:00pm; Thursday August 25, 6:00pm; Saturday, August 27, 4:30pm; Sunday, August 28, 3:00pm.
Box office: 317-721-9458
Box office: 317-721-9458
Pones Inc. Returns with Live Documentary of Dance!
CINCINNATI, OH – Pones Inc. Laboratory of Movement, a professional performance art group, returns to IndyFringe for the second year in a row with its original show Live Documentary of Dance! The company is delighted to return to Indy Fringe after a successful run of The Four Food Groups in 2010.
Indytheatrehabit.com praised Pones Inc.ʼs debut saying, “Four Food Groups was an innovative & refreshingly mature exploration of a favorite IndyFringe topic: sex & relationships."
Live Documentary of Dance! is a dance and multi-media performance that provides an in-depth look into the current state of dance in our society. Live Documentary of Dance! is based upon video interviews from over 100 professionals in the dance field, students, and pedestrians. The show is presented as a 'live documentary' making it a living, breathing, collaborative and constantly-changing project that allows viewers a completely unique and participatory theatre experience. "Live Documentary of Dance! succeeds at embodying about every defining characteristic of a Fringe show one might come up with." -The Cincy Fringe Conveyor.
“We wanted to develop a work from multiple perspectives in content, process and in presentation,” said Pones Inc. Co-Founders Kim Popa and Lindsey Jones. “Initially, the video interviews were conducted for research, but after numerous insightful conversations the project shifted from narrative to documentary.”
Performance Details:
Cook Theatre
Cook Theatre
Saturday, August 20, 9:00pm; Sunday, August 21, 1:30pm; Monday, August 22, 9:00pm; Friday August 26, 10:30pm; Saturday, August 27, 7:30pm; Sunday, August 28, 6:00pm.
Box office: 317-721-9458
Box office: 317-721-9458
A Cinderella Celebration: Mary Hamilton Brings you Around the World with Cinderella
You’ve heard of Cinderella’s fairy godmother, but what about the magic fish, the magic doll, or the grandfather frog that help the Cinderellas in other cultures? You’ll hear about all these, plus a Cinderella who needs no assistance from anyone in Around the World with Cinderella at the Indy Fringe Festival.
Yes, a Cinderella celebration is part of this year’s Indy Fringe, featuring a multicultural mashup of eleven traditional Cinderella tales from Chile, Russia, France, China, Republic of Georgia, Germany, Nigeria, Ireland, and three North American cultures – New World Spanish, Native American MicMac, and Appalachian, presented by award-winning storyteller Mary Hamilton.
The idea for the multicultural Cinderella mashup portion of the Around the World with Cinderella show - a story titled “Eleven Cinderellas” - developed when Hamilton answered a storytelling colleague’s listserve inquiry asking for suggestions for a story she could tell at her church’s mingling of the waters ceremony. In the ceremony members of the storyteller’s church mixed vials of water collected during their travels apart to celebrate their coming together again to begin a new church year. Hamilton suggested the storyteller might want to retell one common fairy tale using variants from several different cultures. Hamilton says, “I have no idea what the teller did for her church ceremony, but as I sat at my keyboard typing my reply to her, I talked myself into trying it with Cinderella.”
Months and months of research, reading and studying many versions of hundreds of traditional Cinderella tales followed. “Like most people I was familiar with the French version because that’s the source both Walt Disney and Rodgers & Hammerstein most relied on for their animated film and Broadway musical versions of the tale,” Hamilton said, “It would have been easy to create an all-European version of the story, but I wanted more variety, so I searched out versions from lots of different cultures.”
Hamilton also studied multiple versions from the same culture to better ascertain the details that really were traditional. Hamilton explained, “Each reteller of a folktale – whether in an anthology or a single story edition or on a website – often incorporates his or her own unique rewording of the tale in the retelling. That wording belongs to that reteller. By looking at multiple retellings of the same story, I could determine what they have in common. For example, the Chinese Cinderella wears a cloak of feathers – different retellers have specified different types of feathers, but all agree the cloak is made of feathers.” Why does this matter? “I don’t even want to guess the additional time, energy and possible dollars I would have spent securing publisher permissions if I had relied on single editions of any cultural versions. As a result of her extensive research, only one segment, from “Ashpet” the Appalachian Cinderella required permission – kindly granted by Houghton Mifflin, publisher of Grandfather Tales, a collection by Richard Chase.
The result? “‘Eleven Cinderellas’ is a storytelling tour de force,” said Ted Parkhurst, President of Parkhurst Brothers Publishing, Inc. who heard Mary’s “Eleven Cinderellas” debut at the Azalea Storytelling Festival in LaGrange, Georgia. “Eleven Cinderellas” is also one of three stories Hamilton recorded on her CD Sisters All . . . and One Troll featuring stories of active heroines. Yes, Active heroines! Cinderella is not passively dressed by birds and mice in traditional versions! The CD received both a Storytelling World Winner Award in the Storytelling Recordings category and a Parents’ Choice Gold Award. About “Eleven Cinderellas” Parents’ Choice reviewer Flora Joy wrote: “Brilliantly crafted, the segments work like blocks of a quilt: individual works of art that make up a whole. Here, Hamilton chooses to place her stories emphasis not on the stereotypical 'wicked stepmother' but rather on the inner character of the struggling stepdaughter as she encountered difficulties during her journey."
But the multicultural Cinderella mashup is only one part of Around the World with Cinderella. Hamilton also relies on memories of “Cinderella, dressed in yella” a jump rope rhyme from her childhood with both school yard sanctioned and school yard banned versions. Yes, she includes both.
Guys won’t feel left out of in this show either because a Cinderlad – Boots, the put-down youngest brother hero from Norwegian folklore -- also receives star status in a tale that includes a rather determined and lusty princess.
Wordplay takes the stage too when Hamilton spoonerizes Cinderella into “Rindercella”. Hamilton readily admits “Rindercella” is not her unique creation, “I’ve heard lots of versions – all including Rindercella, the Pransome Hince, and a slopped dripper.” That’s Cinderella, the Handsome Prince and a dropped slipper, for those unfamiliar with spoonerisms -- wordplay based on swapping initial sounds named after Reverend William Spooner who is said to have created them unintentionally. Hamilton reports, “I had fun creating my own spoonerisms and deciding which ones to use. “
So, will the Gairy Fodmother turn a cat into a roach driver? Or, will the Pransome Hince vow to find his true love or trie dying? Find out when you and Cinderella go on the road together at Around the World with Cinderella at the Frank and Katrina Basile Theatre in The Phoenix, 749 N Park Avenue, Indianapolis, 46202 at the Indy Fringe Festival.
Who Is Mary Hamilton?
A professional storyteller since 1983, Mary’s childhood storytelling adventures led to a note on her report card and frequent trips to her church confessional. After growing up on a Kentucky farm where storytelling was considered more of a moral failing than a career choice, Mary now has multiple awards for her storytelling recordings to her credit and has been honored by the National Storytelling Network with a Circle of Excellence Oracle Award “presented to artists who are recognized by their peers to be master storytellers who set the standards for excellence and have demonstrated, over a significant period of time, a commitment and dedication to the art of storytelling."
She has told stories to listeners from Florida to Alaska, including performances for Storytelling Arts of Indiana. This is her first ever Fringe Festival adventure.
For years Mary confessed her storytelling sins and struggled to overcome her talent. Fortunately, she failed. Find out more at her website www.maryhamilton.info from http://www.storynet.org/oracle/index.html website of the National Storytelling Network.
Performance Details for this show:
Phoenix Theatre
Saturday, August 20, 1:30; Sunday, August 21, 10:30 ; Monday, August 22, 7:30; Thursday, August 26, 6:00 ; Sunday, August 28, 7:30
Box office: 317-721-9458
Tickets also available at www.indyfringe.org
Phoenix Theatre
Saturday, August 20, 1:30; Sunday, August 21, 10:30 ; Monday, August 22, 7:30; Thursday, August 26, 6:00 ; Sunday, August 28, 7:30
Box office: 317-721-9458
Tickets also available at www.indyfringe.org
Indianapolis Theatre Launches Campaign to Purchase and Renovate Building: Philanthropists Make $100,000 Donation
“Great Expectations: Funding the Fantastic Fringe Campaign” is being co-chaired by the Basiles.
“Katrina and I see this as an opportunity to ensure the ongoing availability of an affordable and accessible space to assist IndyFringe in accomplishing its mission of attracting diverse audiences while providing performing opportunities for artists, from emerging to established,” said Frank Basile. “We feel strongly that this is the perfect venue for that purpose and the time will never be better to purchase the building.”
In recognition of the contribution, the theatre will be named the Basile Fringe Theatre. The building, which will also include IndyFringe offices, sits near the southeast corner of Massachusetts and College avenues – adjacent to the Indianapolis Cultural Trail: A Legacy of Marilyn and Gene Glick –and is adding vibrancy to this established arts district.
The $600,000 campaign goal, which includes the purchase of the building, renovation costs and initial operating expenses, is slated to conclude by December 31, 2011. The campaign includes a grassroots effort led by the IndyFringe Creative Council, which is comprised of young professionals and others involved with various aspects of performing arts.
“We are tremendously grateful to the Basile Family for their generosity and vision. Their contribution gets us well on our way to establishing a permanent home for IndyFringe,” Moffat said.
“Katrina and I love that the Fringe supports both emerging and established artists in dance, drama, comedy, cabaret, music, magic and multi-media. The artists write their own scripts and stage the productions themselves. The role of IndyFringe is to give them a venue to perform, and this building is key,” said Frank Basile.
Since IndyFringe moved into its current rental facility three years ago, the organization has invested in creating the best use of the space for diverse performing groups and audiences. Grants from the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust, Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation, Local Initiatives Support Corporation, and Massachusetts Avenue Community Development Grant, and architectural services from Perkins Ven Deylen Architects, funded early phases of the ongoing renovation and restoration.
IndyFringe Festival – the organization’s marquis event – returns 100 percent of ticket revenue back to performers, which is a unique business model. Since the Festival began seven years ago, it has given $508,000 back to artists.
“It’s extremely rare for performers at any venue to receive 100% of ticket revenues, and it’s nearly as rare for performers to have full artistic freedom. Those two things are what really make IndyFringe unique in Indianapolis and Fringe Festivals unique in the world,” Moffat said.
For additional information on the campaign, visit the IndyFringe.org website.
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That's right Fringers: from August 19 through 28, Mass. Avenue will play host to the 7th annual Fringe festival, which is set to see 56 shows across 7 venues.
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