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Tuesday July 9th, 2002
By GLENN SUMI
10 FRINGE FESTIVAL MOMENTS
We're just past the halfway mark of the Fringe and I've seen about 30
shows - more than any other year.
Here's a list of 10 special Fringe moments. They might not
necessarily be from a favourite show, but they'll stay with me for a
while.
1. Grossest scene in a play: March of Dames improv dynamo Lisa
Merchant eating co-star Anne Francis's torn-out eyeball in Adrian
Truss's comic thriller Tale Of The Scorpion. I spy, indeed.
2. Most moving scene: Nils Ling recounting a story about losing his
young daughter at Disneyland in The Truth About Daughters. Everyone's
hearts sank as he recounted his quick search for her - describing
every parent's worst nightmare in almost too-vivid detail.
3. Stupidest scene: the conclusion to Lee William Shakespeare's Otis,
set in a New York skyscraper elevator. He reached a new low.
4. Best surprise: the fish splashing in Rick Roberts's Fish/Wife. It
came again and again, but it never got dull. That was as much due to
the brilliant script - which mined everything from evolutionary
quirks to the meaning of life - as to Roberts's sharp direction.
5. Funniest video sequence #1: Host Sean Fisher and guest Jane Luk
doing their best smarmy talk show banter in Radcliffe & Minotauk
Falls. Sammy Maudlin from SCTV would be pleased.
6. Best song about the theatre: Asses In Seats from Top Gun! The
Musical. Cynical, smart and oh-so-true - except for that clunky rhyme
with "jejune."
7. Best intentionally bad song about the theatre: That Goose Is
Cooked from Top Gun! The Musical. Sentimental, dumb and oh-so-funny.
Marius and Eponine travel to Mach 3.
8. Funniest video sequence #2: Daniel and Steven Shehori trying to
convince masked metalheads Gwar to write a 30-second theme song for
their TV parody Minotauk Falls - "It's like Gilligan's Island."
9. Saddest scene: when the troubled daughter played by Melissa Haller
gets called to the principal's office in Will and finds she's lost
her fear, thus beginning a life of destructive rebellion.
10. Funniest scene: Luke Skywalker takes off his father Darth Vader's
helmet and says, "I thought you were black!" in Charles Ross's One
Man Star Wars Trilogy. and Steven Shehori trying to
convince masked metalheads Gwar to write a 30-second theme song for
their TV parody Minotauk Falls - "It's like Gilligan's Island."
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