’1-900-SELFPLEX’ Rehearsal Footage
Check out this rehearsal footage of 1-900-SELFPLEX, shot by Chris Curto, a.k.a. “the human steadycam,” of Video Imprint Productions, LLC.
1-900-SELFPLEX has three remaining performances at FringeNYC 2009: Sat. 8/22 @ 4:15pm, Thurs. 8/27 @ 9:15pm, and Fri. 8/28 @ 4:45pm. Tickets can be purchased online via TicketWeb or in person at the door fifteen minutes before showtime.
For more information, including the venue, visit our CURRENT WORK page!
’1-900-SELFPLEX’ – New Photo & Time Out NY
Meet “J.C.,” the mysterious, love-hungry muse at the center of 1-900-SELFPLEX. This is the first in a new batch of photos of the show. Stay tuned for more!
Also, we’re thrilled to report that 1-900-SELFPLEX is currently being featured by Time Out New York on their FringeNYC main page. See the screenshot below!
Advance tickets for 1-900-SELFPLEX are available now! Why not save yourself a seat by ordering one (or two)?
kenneth in the (212) gives ’1-900-SELFPLEX’ a Shout Out!
Thanks so much to Frank Anthony Polito for including 1-900-SELFPLEX in his sneak peak at LGBT-themed work at this year’s New York International Fringe Festival!
Read Frank’s blog at kenneth in the (212). And, lest you forget, advance tickets for 1-900-SELFPLEX are available right this very moment via TicketWeb.
FringeNYC 2009 – Your LGBTQ Destination
Few theatre festivals are as colorfully queer as the New York International Fringe Festival. With over two hundred companies from all over the world performing for sixteen days in more than twenty NYC venues, there’s always a healthy assortment of LGBTQ shows. Whether you’re lesbian, gay, bi, trans, or just queer-friendly, FringeNYC has curated something especially for you.
Below are thirty-eight LGBTQ shows featured in this year’s FringeNYC (including our company’s own 1-900-SELFPLEX, of course!). For queer theatre this August, FringeNYC is your #1 “staycation” destination!
1-900-SELFPLEX
Dial into the imagination where the self is as slippery as the myriad stories constructing it. In 1-900-SELFPLEX, a 40-year-old writer/”sexpert” finds herself – and subsequent worldwide celebrity – by assuming the identity of a transgendered, teenage boy.
38 Witnessed Her Death, I Witnessed Her Love: The Lonely Secret of Mary Ann Zielonko (Kitty Genovese Story)
“WE WERE LOVERS TOGETHER. EVERYBODY TRIED TO HUSH THAT UP.” Meet the killer, the NY Times editor, and the woman who kept her love affair secret for forty years. Surrounded by the specter of 38 silent witnesses. THE KITTY GENOVESE STORY.
Abraham Lincoln’s Big, Gay Dance Party
Romance! Murder! Dancing! Honest Abe’s hometown puts a teacher on trial for asking “Was Lincoln gay?” in this new comedy of political “values.” See the events through the eyes of the prosecution, defense, or a big city reporter. You decide the order.
America’s Next Top Bottom: Cycle 5!
Do these boys have what it takes to be America’s Next Top Bottom? Watch as these seven ass-piring bottoms attempt to outdress, outbitch, and outsass each other for the crown. Who will get it in the end? YOU decide!!!
AND SOPHIE COMES TOO
Will Sophie Abramowitz wake from her coma? Her daughters hope not. Barbara fears a medical miracle; Perfect Rose is falling apart, and Sandra wants a penis. And Sophie Comes Too is a comedy about becoming fully conscious as one’s self.
ART’S HEART
My name is Art. I have an irregular heart. Beat. I live above the RedHotVideoXXX. Tonight I confess my love to the handsome Frenchman across the street. Bonjour! IF my very serious heart condition doesn’t kill me first. Seriously. “Skunks.Sex.Suicide.”
Baking With Bertha: Back to School Special
Take the homespun humor of Garrison Keillor, add the cooking skills and stature of Julia Child, and toss in a little Ethel Merman and you have BERTHA MASON. BERTHA MASON is the creation of actor and pastry chef, Michael Bowen.
Bargains & Blood (How to Succeed in Home Shopping!)
A trailer park Cinderella becomes a messianic home shopping hostess during a recession. Featuring Bavarian-Crystal-selling dope fiends, philandering TV pitchmen, and the vengeful ex-mistress of the inventor of Hair-in-a-can! With blood on the floor and bargains galore!
Bitch! (The Autobiography of Lady Lawford, as Told to Buddy Galon)
Eccentric Lady May Lawford, mother of 60′s Rat Packer Peter Lawford, and her much younger society entertainer companion Buddy, are the prototypes for Harold and Maude – except they’re part of a real-life murder mystery.
The Boys Upstairs
Sex, dating, friendship, and all the blurry lines in between. This New York story invites you upstairs to the fabulous living room of city boys who handle relationships, careers, and the city with style, scandal, and specialty cocktails!
CAMP WANATACHI: A New Musical
Spirit-soaked and hormone-charged, two 13-year-old girls fall in love at Christian summer camp. Live orchestra. Sick beats. Songs like “We All Need Jesus in Our Lives” and “Let’s Ride Bareback.” This nostalgic musical is super futuristic.
Citizen Ruth
Jesus freaks. Righteous feminists. Scheming politicians and shallow celebrities. They all want something from Ruth – a foul-mouthed, homeless, paint-huffing unfit mother. But what does Ruth want? Welcome to the modern American musical.
Cock-a-Doodle-Doo!
The Siren call of a mysterious cock lures an excitable, debt-ridden landowner on a quirky journey of discovery. Adapted from Melville’s funny, baffling story by the winner of the FringeNYC ’06 Award for Outstanding Music and Lyrics.
CONFIRMATION
Is there integrity in tolerance? Is identity inherited or are we responsible for the person we become? When an idealistic teacher sees his beliefs and his reality collide, will his students, friends, and family survive the fallout?
Crazy Good Luck
What do a transgendered woman, a Texas redneck, a feminist breast cancer survivor, and a ninty year old southern belle have in common? Crazy Good Luck, that’s what. Let us introduce ourselves: songs, monologues, dances. One woman show. Ya’ll come.
Daily Sounds
Shawn, a war veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder, lives with May, an older woman he has met in New York City. The play explores the ambiguous and violent nature of the relationship between Shawn, his gay analyst, and May.
The Death of Evie Avery
Is Evie alive or dead? Asleep or awake? Can she drift from loving mother to sexless, primitive monster? Will she reject her children, husband, friends, and lovers? Who knows. Anyone up for a swim?
Deathwatch
Two men share a prison cell with a notorious killer. One is in love with him. One wants to become him. Four female actors explore Jean Genet’s Deathwatch in the U.S. premiere of Obie-winning playwright David Rudkin’s translation.
DEVIL BOYS FROM BEYOND
Flying saucers! Backstabbing bitches! Muscle hunks and men in pumps! Wake up and smell the alien invasion in this outrageously insane comedy by a multi-award winning artistic team including Ridiculous Theatre Company’s Everett Quinton.
Dirty Stuff
A Blaxploitation Diva! A Gay Pimp! A Trailer Park Princess! An Arab Playboy! They are all played by LOGO’s “Big Gay Sketch Show” star Jonny McGovern in his GLAAD-award nominated Dirty Stuff, a one man cartoon club crawl.
Dolls
Welcome to the United Shelves of Frank’s Collection – where porcelain is political, fashion dolls are fascist, action figures come out of the closet…and you’re the newest plaything. Get to know your toys in this comedy from Fringe favorite Michael Phillis.
Forest Maiden
A Maiden leaves her elf-dyke girlfriend in the forest. She is captured by a Knight and a Reality Show Host! They fight, fuck, and text-message their way back to the Kingdom. A fable for the queer fantasy geek…in everybody.
Groupies
Four New Yorkers. Four celebrity obsessions. Take a surprising trip through the minds, lusts, and loves of four characters and their celebrity obsessions: Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Cobain, Eminem, and Elizabeth Taylor. Pop culture with depth. Discover your inner groupie!
Gutter Star: The Paperback Musical
A trashy tale of forbidden love ripped from the tawdry pages of cheap pulp fiction. Gutter Star: The Paperback Musical – she was a Hollywood STAR who came from a Chicago GUTTER!
His Greatness
Based on a potentially true story about two days in the last years of the life of the great American playwright, Tennessee Williams.
John & Greg’s High School Reunion
BFFs John and Greg must defy the odds, get the girl (or guy), save their friendship, and grow the hell up in this two-man comedy. Lose ten pounds, hire a hot date, and we’ll see you at the reunion!
The Jungle Fun Room
It’s just another nutty day at the zoo for the struggling actors of Jungle Fun Birthday Parties, until they meet the birthday girl’s Oscar-winning mom. Where success is a state of mind…welcome to The Jungle Fun Room.
just don’t touch me, amigo
A comedy about loneliness in the city and the alienating process of becoming a resident alien.
Kaddish (or The Key in the Window)
A guilt-ridden son. A mother’s battle with mental illness. Hospitals. A lobotomy. Ginsberg’s poem “Kaddish” springs to life in this multi-media performance that is equal parts memory play, confession, and eulogy.
The Meaning of Wife
Erin has a husband, Ailin has a wife, neither one knows how it happened. This two-woman comedy about all kinds of marriages (including gay ones and slightly less gay ones) just might change your definition of the word “wife.”
The Motherline
Claire, an unborn soul, has chosen her mother, but her mother isn’t getting pregnant anytime soon. Will exchanging lives with her mother’s Buddhist cat get Claire close enough to win the love she desires? A lesson in the roots of love.
Notes on the Land of Earthquake & Fire
A Malibu beach house, frozen coffee drinks, illegal online pharmaceuticals, hot tubs, and surfing. A Hollywood assistant has the worst day ever in this new play by the screenwriter of Trick. Disaster is prone to strike!
PIE-FACE! THE ADVENTURES OF ANITA BRYANT
Before Miss California, there was Anita Bryant, the original scandalicious beauty queen-turned-orange juice promoting, Jesus-loving, homo-hater. “A Tank in Taffeta!” -Orlandocitybeat.com. “Inspired Hilarity!” -Orlando Sentinel. “Tastes suspiciously like a banana cream surprise…Delicious!” -Orlando Weekly.
Poppy! An Enchanted Evening with Poppy Bulova
“Intriguing…otherworldly…sensual…improbable…stunning…disturbed…intoxicated.” These words and more have been used to describe the legendary, beloved Poppy Bulova. Decide for yourself what makes the star so indescribable as she returns to the stage with her triumphant and oblique new cabaret.
Spitting in the Face of the Devil
The sins of the father go on and on from son to son until someone chooses to end them. Little Bobby took a knife and nearly killed his father, the Bob Sr. nobody knew. Now his son tells all.
Tales from the Tunnel
It’s dirty, hot, sticky, and you probably just got off. The NYC Subway is a million little stories that make up a big city. Hop on board for a show based on over 150 TRUE STORIES from underground!
The Taming of the Shrew
Who’s taming whom? The battle of the sexes, wits, and wills rages on. Reckoning with our 21st century demons. Struggling for attention, money, respect. Rivaling siblings, conniving servants. Fighting male hierarchy. Cross-dressing. Elizabethan foundations, modern sensibilities, Shakespeare’s unmistakable, masterful language.
Tearoom Tango
Welcome to the hidden world of bathroom sex. Six men share their lives through frank and disturbing monologues. The Tearoom intertwines their stories and builds to an unforgettable climax. Explicit content and brief nudity. Mature audiences only.
Tickets for ’1-900-SELFPLEX’ Now Available
Advance tickets are now available for 1-900-SELFPLEX! To purchase tickets, simply visit TicketWeb, choose which performance(s) you want to attend, add the tickets to your virtual shopping cart, and “check out” for a dose of Fringe-tastic summer fun, courtesy of Elixir Productions Theatre Company. You can also buy tickets by phone at 1-866-468-7619.
PS: Buying your tickets in advance not only guarantees you a seat; it also gets you our love.
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