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FRINGE FILE #3: Amy’s Guide to Day 3

by Amy Donahue -

A collage of selected shows playing on Day 3 of the Minnesota Fringe Festival, which runs through August 11 in Minneapolis, MN.

The first Saturday of the Minnesota Fringe Festival is a full, full day if you’re trying to see every possible show. If you see every possible show, that’s seven shows in one 10 hour period, a schedule that demands an early lunch and/or packing dinner. Or, you could do what I do, and take a break mid-festival whenever you’re feeling it to come back recharged.

According to the Fringe Festival, today’s sell-out risks are:

A cup of boba tea and Thai Garden Fusion (233 Cedar Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55454) is a great way to grab a bite while traversing the Cedar-Riverside hub of the Minnesota Fringe Festival.

With no further ado, here’s my starting schedule for Saturday, August 3, the third day of the Minnesota Fringe Festival:

  • 12:30 PM: Roll into Cedar-Riverside to park in the ramp for the Courtyard Minneapolis Downtown (1500 Washington Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55454). It’s not the cheapest parking option in town, but if you’re planning on staying all day, it beats feeding meters and frantically looking for a new space to park. Also, with the temperature peaking around 88 degrees, covered parking is worth something extra!
  • 1-2 PM: Start things off with some comedy at Mixed Blood Theatre with Kari Heistad’s Playing Dead.
    • Show Description: Before the funeral, method actor Katja invokes her late grandmother’s spirit in an attempt to immortalize them both. Can her family convince her to drop the act or will she play the part ’til curtain close? 
  • 2 PM: Catch up on a novel while hanging in the shade outside Mixed Blood.
  • 2:30-3:30 PM: Watch Light Bringer Productions’ The Light Bringer at Mixed Blood.
    • Show Description: An Arab immigrant’s true life story of family, freedom, and finding the American Dream! 
  • 3:30 PM: Ride my scooter back to Theatre in the Round and grab a ticket for Sugar Throw Theatre’s Once Upon A Pine: The Adventures of Pinocchio.
    • Show Description: The world’s most beloved puppet comes to life in this humorous and heartfelt adaptation of the Carlo Collodi classic. Geppetto, a lonely toymaker, longs to have a child to call his own. But he soon gets more than he bargained for when Pinocchio—a marionette carved from an enchanted log—springs to life before his eyes! Filled with memorable characters and magical adventures, Once Upon A Pine reminds audiences of the importance of love, friendship and honesty. And that’s no lie.
  • 4-5 PM: Watch Once Upon A Pine: The Adventures of Pinocchio at Theatre in the Round.
  • 5 PM: Back to the ramp to lock my scooter and grab boba. Mourn the departure of Republic from Seven Corners to MSP Airport. Return to Theatre in the Round in time to grab a ticket for Ken Takata’s Musical Settings for Shakespeare.
    • Show Description: Shakespeare’s plays contain over 70 lyrics, but most of the original music has been lost. Here we present musical settings in styles including the Great American Songbook and glam rock.
  • 5:30-6:30 PM: Watch Musical Settings for Shakespeare at Theatre in the Round.
  • 6:30 PM: Stroll back to The Southern Theater to buy a ticket to Amanda Ripley’s The Untold Myth of Medusa, The Musical; Part 1 (I’m a sucker for revisionist takes on classic mythology. Especially with crude humor.) Since The Southern is one of the venues with an on-site bar, pair with the late afternoon beverage of choice.
    • Show Description: Medusa, we all know her for her killer looks, but do we know who she was before the curse. Lean in close to hear the truth of this myth unfold. Come see how she fares in a world of unfair fates and unruly gods.
  • 7-8 PM: Watch The Untold Myth of Medusa, The Musical at the Southern.
  • 8 PM: Dinner or plow on through? This is the point that my boyfriend usually arrives bearing pizza, just in time for us to chow down and grab tickets for Shua Group’s Something Together, a dance show at the Southern. (Our first date was a dance show, so it’s a tradition.)
    • Show Description: Something Together is a magical and intimate interaction between three dancers distinguished by generation, nationality and culture. Featuring vogue, contact improvisation, house dance and the unexpected.
  • 8:30-9:30 PM: Watch Something Together at the Southern.
  • 9:30 PM: Back to Theatre in the Round to buy two tickets for an extra dose of the Bard from Stratford-upon-Avon with Juliet & Juliet’s Juliet & Juliet: Improvised Shakespeare.
    • Show Description: Juliet & Juliet improvise eloquent, oddball, feminist Shakespeare. They love language. They love murdering one another. They love traveling all over the US improvising Shakespeare.
  • 10-11 PM: Watch Juliet & Juliet: Improvised Shakespeare.
  • 11 PM: Kiss the boy, retrieve my car, and go home.
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