Here it is for the 23rd time—The Jenny Revue, your Fringe forum on paper and on-line.
You could be holding an actual paper booklet in your hands or checking us out on your mobile device, where you can also access our own on-line Fringe program, at http://www.jennyrevue.com/schedule/
There you can sort alphabetically by the first letter of the show title or by venue. It also has a groovy search component where entering just one significant word in either the title or company name (or description gets you the listing for that show—as long as it’s a word like Starbucks or Marketplace.
Words like dance or comedy will give you every show with that word in its title, company name, or show description. A less broad search, i.e., ‘devil’ brings up six shows, one with devil in the title, four with devil in their hellishly inclined show descriptions, and one group who describes itself as “devil-may-care.”
The Jenny Revue’s web weaver, Murray Hunter put this easy glide site together when he tired of scrolling endlessly through the Fringe’s own on-line program which lacks a quick search component. And I, for one, was always forgetting to un-check the boxes that sort by genre, Audience Classification, date, and venue, leading to unsatisfying search results.
I think you’ll like it. I also think we should call it the Hunter (the Hunter Show Hunter being a trifle unwieldy) since it describes both its function and its creator.
Ch-ch-ch-changes—Intrepid Jenny reporter Kevin Longfield crossed the bridge to the basilica last night to view Quo Vadis and found Ross McMillan, “script in hand,” having replaced the hospitalized Kevin Klassen only two days before opening. He describes McMillan’s performance as an “an admirable job, which I expect will only get better as time passes.”
Let’s hope Mr. Klassen’s also gets better as his time in the hospital passes quickly, toward recovery from whatever put him there.
Jenny start-up—Some of us got a bit of a jump on the rest of you at the July 6th Jenny Prevue. Taking the stage at the King’s Head to serve up tasty tidbits of their shows were Damn Your Eyes, (James & Jamesy in) High Tea, Bizarro Obscure, According To Harry, Understudies: A New Musical, WANDERLUST, Head of a Youth, The Storyteller, GOD: A Comedy In One Act, There are Two Errors in the the Title of This Show*, and The (Improvised) Bachelorette, all hosted by our Horrible Friend, Shawn Kowalke, who did not, on this occasion, (or ever, come to think of it), supply Free Beer.
It’s time to try to impress our new printer All Nations Printing, by being something close to on time.
Don’t forget to send your reviews, SSPs, letters and random thoughts to us at jennyrevue@shaw.ca or drop a paper missive in a Jenny box. I look forward to reading you.
