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Last Call: Kiss Me, Kate, and the Fringe winners are...
The Old Globe’s mega hit must close Sunday and the most Fringelicious selections for 2015
Kiss Me, Kate
- The Old Globe Theatre, 1363 Old Globe Way, Balboa Park
- $29 - $84
Kiss Me Kate. The Old Globe’s mega hit must close Sunday. No if’s, and’s, or could we start again please’s. In 2013, Darko Trasnjak, former artistic director at the Globe, brought us a gem of a show. A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder played here, then went to Broadway, where it won Three Tony Awards for 2014: Best Musical; Best Direction (Tresnjak), and Best Book (Robert L. Freedman) And Jefferson Mays was robbed — ROBBED I say — for not winning Best Male Lead in a Musical.
This summer Tresnjak and his Hartford Stage Company returned to the Globe with a bawdy re-imagined version of the Cole Porter classic. Call it “Kate’s Revenge.” Unlike Shakespeare’s Kate, Porter’s refuses to turn the other cheek; she turns the tables instead. The music’s rich, the voices strong, and the spirited tone’s pure Renaissance, in our imaginations, if not in actuality.
The San Diego Fringe’s third annual festival concluded an 11 day sprint through town last Sunday. Tornados go slower. Each year the Fringe solicits votes from 150 to 200 attendees and gives awards in 22 categories at a “wrap up party.”
Winners, the most “Fringelicious performances” for 2015, are:
Best of Bi-National: Todavía, Hernan Del Riego.
Best of Fringe: Save My Soul, Wingrove Studios.
Spirit of the Fringe (tie): Big Shot the Musical, Beats Without Borders, California Rhythm.
Critic’s Pick: Tears of the Knife, Bodhi Tree Concerts.
Outstanding Drama: Blamed: an Established Fiction, Rose and Rue Theatre Company.
Outstanding Solo Performance: 84 Gradini, Giuseppe Mortelliti.
Outstanding Production: HipHopcabHorray, Melissa Adao.
Outstanding Vocal Performance: Phantasmagoria, Jack Lukeman.
Outstanding Direction: Les Midge, A Journey of Hobbit Proportions, Turning Tydes Theatre Company.
Outstanding Actor: Paolo Madrigal, Debotas al Botox.
Outstanding World Premiere: Looking to Upgrade, Lisa Pedace.
Outstanding Original Score: The Things We Never Say, Breakthrough Workshop Theatre.
Best Musical: Les Midge, A Journey of Hobbit Proportions, Turning Tydes Theatre Company.
Outstanding Choreography: Whispering Directions, somebodies dance theater.
Outstanding Dance Production: Reverberate, Blythe Barton.
Outstanding Physical Theatre: The Other Don Quixote, La mancha de clown Quijote, ABordo Teatro.
Outstanding Site Specific Performance: Blurred, Ruffled, and Unglued, San Diego City College Collective.
Fringe of the Fringe: Kate McGrew, Hooker P.I., A Skirt Production.
Audience Favorite: The Mysterium Show.
Outstanding Comedy: Scenes from Mars One: Now With 68% Less Gravity, Mars One Productions.
Outstanding Circus Performance: Frontier(a), Circus Collective of San Diego.
Volunteer of the Year: Jenni Bethell.
Congrats to all. And may the Fringe please find ways to bring at least some of these performances back during the year.