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The End of the Fringe
By Steven Fales | August 29, 2010
I’m about to go help strike and clean at the SoHo Playhouse where I just finished participating in the Fourteenth New York International Fringe Festival. There were so many shows here (197) from all over the world. It was an honor and a pleasure to be part of this. I feel that my show was not the hit Confessions of a Mormon Boy was last time. But it gave me a great chance to see how New Yorkers received my work. And I have to say that they appreciated the writing better than I ever imagined. Missionary Position is a pretty intense exploration in Mormonism, and they were right with me. The first and final performances were the strongest and the largest houses. I am looking forward to working the piece further and taking it to Las Vegas and Salt Lake City in September.
I saw the following shows at the Fringe: For Kingdom and Fatherland, Platinum, The Secretaries, Terms of Dismemberment, Viva La Evolucion, The Twentieth-Century Way, and I think one or two others. That was one of the best parts of being at the Fringe — seeing the shows at a discount!
Special thanks to my team: Alex Mark and Sean Lambert. We had such adventures and stories to add to our career-logs of most embarrassing and courageous moments.
Being naked onstage: I was told it was tasteful and was appropriate to the story. Mormon swearing: I probably could have gone further!
I want to do the Edinborough Fringe Festival in Scotland next year!
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