Fringe Full of Stars - Tuesday, August 19 Brings FINAL GIRL! And it's SO GOOD!

 Only Two shows on Tuesday, but the first one was simply terrific! 

Final Girl: A New Musical

Straightedge Theatre, particularly playwrights Seth Gilfillan and Stephen Allred, have done it again! They just keep getting better and better and they have been at a pretty high level for quite a few years now! Final Girl is so good. The cast of five (Alyson Horne, Bella King, Jaimi Reese, Josh Travnik, & Liz Janzen) are all stellar performers delivering top-notch vocal and dance performances in this musical that explores the final girl trope of horror movies like Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer. Throw in some Mean Girls, topical references, clever staging, and a terrific score and you have a show to die for! It's so incredibly tight and funny. I was laughing so hard at the final number that I was literally crying - I couldn't stop. Like Krampus (a previous Straightedge production), I think this show should very much live on beyond the Fringe, for while it has it's Fringe sensibilities it is sure to live beyond. 

DMV

This show explores an adventure of Daphne and Velma (of the Scooby-Doo gang) as they get lost in the woods on their own. They have an accident and are stuck for a while but they find Shaggy's stash and also discover some things about themselves. There's a bit of a mystery involving a serial killer that they inadvertently solve, and some random dancing that's very fun. The production values for this show are pretty impressive - the woods, the Mystery Machine van (complete with working headlights and turn signals), a glow in the dark puppet that's super cool, and great sound tech! I think there were a lot of references that were aimed at a different (younger) demographic than me because there were a lot of  folks laughing at things I didn't get. So I figure would be best for the 18-35 year old crowd. 

Happy Fringing everyone! We're past the halfway point!