Monday, August 13, 2012

Another Terrific Fringe Festival Doubleheader!!


Well, everything good must come to an end all of my Worker Bee friends out there in the hinterlands, wastelands and boondocks. 

Yes ... your weekend is over==>now it’s time to head back to your desks, your cubicles, your broom closets, your wait-stations etc etc etc and help in maintaining our Gross National Product so that we poor pensioners/retirees can survive in The Big Apple, The Greatest City In The World. No whining ... just get to it ASAP!!

I am certain that you loyal and faithful readers and followers want to know about yesterday’s Fringe Festival doubleheader, so let’s get right to it with Billi Pod’s report cards on the two shows, as follows ...

G==>for good;
B==>for bad; and
?==>for “I have no f**king clue.” 

LOVE DEATH BRAINS==>G<==lots of fun. Hard working cast. This time the Zombies win.

SLEEPOVER==>G<==really earns an A+.

The acting is spectacular, especially the two young performers, Marcus Maurice and Brandon Reilly, who really make their teenage characters believable. The back-and-forth between their characters sounds sooooooooooo real.

The highlight of the show is the writing by the 17-year old playwright, Max W. Friedlich, who is still in High School. He is the recipient of a 2012 Young Playwrights Award. Folks, remember this name.

The running time in the Fringe Festival program was 2:00, with an intermission, but they have shortened it to about 90 minutes, without intermission, and that works.

The sold-out house gave this production a well-deserved roaring standing ovation.

So, my theater-nut buddies ... see this show if you possibly can. The remaining performances are:

Friday, 8/17 @ 2:00
Tuesday, 8/21 @ 8:30
Wednesday, 8/22 @ 7:00
Saturday, 8/25 @ 5:30

Hopefully it will be invited to participate in The Fringe Festival Encore Series September 7-30 at the SoHo Theatre.

Major kudos go out to my friend Julie Miller for this production==>YOU HAVE DONE IT AGAIN!!

Oh ... Billi Pod doesn’t shill ... he just calls’um as he sees’um ... so ... 

In yesterday’s blog I posted that I would probably see a movie between the two Fringe Festival shows. Well, that didn’t happen. Instead I came back to the cool confines of PHC to watch the final innings of the YANKEES/TORONTO game.

The Yankees lost to The Blue Jays 10-7 as Phil Hughes had yet another putrid outing. The Yankees staged a late-inning rally but it fell short.

After the Yankees game I then watched The Mid-Atlantic Regional Little League Championship Game. It was New Jersey vs. Delaware and the New Jersey team won 1-0 to advance to The L.L. World Series in Williamsport, PA.

I really enjoy watching these Little League games, with the emotions and ups and downs of talented young players in pressure filled games.

When the game was over I then walked from PHC on West 42nd Street down to my Fringe Festival theater venue, which was located deep in the bowels of The West Village. The weather was great and it just felt good.

Moving on ...

In response to some snarky texts and emails ... sorry, but I didn’t write anything about the Olympic Games in London because Billi Pod thinks they were==>BORING!!

Still moving on ...

Tonight’s entertainment event will be ...

7:05==>YANKEES/TEXAS @ Yankee Stadium, The House The Greed And Ego Built, for game 1 of a 4-game series. The two teams are fighting for the best record in the American League.

It will be David Phelps (2-3) on the mound for The Bronx Bombers vs. Ryan Dempster (1-0) for The Rangers.

As you loyal and faithful readers and followers know, Billi Pod will be at The Stadium 4 times this week. The projected weather is good, so keep your fingers crossed for me, please.

This is Monday, as I think most of you know, so it will be my usual errands and stuff day ... so will close this with ...

Yesterday’s Pedometer mileage==>5.64  miles

Mileage for last 7 days==>40.06

Total mileage since 7/1/12==>182.96

Mileage remaining until 4/23/13==>896.04

GO YANKEES AND GO GATORS!!

Billi Pod
“Don’t pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he’ll just kill you.”




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