CapFringe Report
Jul. 20th, 2008 09:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thehefnerNot a bad weekend of performances for THE HEFNER MONOLOGUES: HOW HEFNERIAN. Small houses, just fifteen people out of fifty, but that's pretty much the bare minimum I'd want, so I'm content. Tonight's crowd was the first one where I didn't know anybody in the audience, that these were all people who came because they were interested. That was really nice.
All in all, it's been a very odd Fringe experience. At Orlando, I learned that you have to personally pimp your show, that you need to be out there on the streets, passing out postcards. But Orlando was a centralized festival, a virtually street of Calcutta where people were constantly bustling from show to show, or standing in line waiting to get in, where it's eas(ier)y to pimp and spiel your wares.
But in DC, where the shows are all spread out, it's harder to track down the similar shows to pimp to audiences. What's more, no one else seems to be pimping their shows, nor anyone else's. At Orlando, artists would constantly see each other's shows, and most would finish by name-dropping the shows they recommend or letting any Fringe artists in the crowd stand and give their own shout-out. There's none of that in DC. I haven't seen a single show where anyone's done that, any of those pimpings, and that makes me all the more reluctant and self-conscious to do it myself.
More and more, I keep wishing I'd have gotten the e-mail where I could have put an ad in the Fringe program guide. I need to do that with every festival. I can't shake the idea that that's where my ad money should go, more than in any newspapers or magazines. Eh, it's all learning experience, and CapFringe has been far from a loss. I've had good houses, six performances of a show of which I've rather proud, and I'll come away with all this with a tidy sum.
Still. It's been strange.
Thursday's my last performance. If you haven't seen it/me yet, I very much hope you can make it out. Let's actually sell out the final show, eh?
All in all, it's been a very odd Fringe experience. At Orlando, I learned that you have to personally pimp your show, that you need to be out there on the streets, passing out postcards. But Orlando was a centralized festival, a virtually street of Calcutta where people were constantly bustling from show to show, or standing in line waiting to get in, where it's eas(ier)y to pimp and spiel your wares.
But in DC, where the shows are all spread out, it's harder to track down the similar shows to pimp to audiences. What's more, no one else seems to be pimping their shows, nor anyone else's. At Orlando, artists would constantly see each other's shows, and most would finish by name-dropping the shows they recommend or letting any Fringe artists in the crowd stand and give their own shout-out. There's none of that in DC. I haven't seen a single show where anyone's done that, any of those pimpings, and that makes me all the more reluctant and self-conscious to do it myself.
More and more, I keep wishing I'd have gotten the e-mail where I could have put an ad in the Fringe program guide. I need to do that with every festival. I can't shake the idea that that's where my ad money should go, more than in any newspapers or magazines. Eh, it's all learning experience, and CapFringe has been far from a loss. I've had good houses, six performances of a show of which I've rather proud, and I'll come away with all this with a tidy sum.
Still. It's been strange.
Thursday's my last performance. If you haven't seen it/me yet, I very much hope you can make it out. Let's actually sell out the final show, eh?
