2012 Capital Fringe Festival Guide

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July 14 – 29, 2012

We wrap up our coverage of this year’s festival:

The party’s over –  a look at the numbers and last words on the Best of the Fest
Interview with Julianne Brienza

Thanks to everyone for another great year of Fringe.

Key to the ratings below:  5 (Pick of the Fringe) to 1.

Rating	Show	Reviewer	Tickets
4	3rd Annual Fool for All - Tales of Marriage and Mozzarella	Missy Frederick	Go
2	Aaaaaagh! Murder!	Lisa Chiu	Go
2	AARP, The Musical and Harriet 2.0	Rebecca Tello	Go
2	A Day in the Life of Miss Hiccup	Tim Treanor	Go
5	Airswimming (Abridged)	John Bavoso	Go
1	A is for Artist	Travis Andrews	Go
3	Alice in Wonderland	Stephanie McGill	Go
2	All-Nude College-Girl Revue or Why I Can't Pass the Vetting	Tim Treanor	Go
5	Almost, Almost Maine	Travis Andrews	Go
2	A Night In Or The Night My Wife Left	Travis Andrews	Go
3	Apocalypse Picnic	Julia Katz	Go
5	Arlen and Berlin Occupy the Fringe	Kelly McCorkendale	Go
4	A Year of Giving	Victoria Durham	Go
3	Bareback Ink	John Bavoso	Go
4	Barter	Victoria Durham	Go
4	Beef Encounter	Hunter Styles	Go
4	Beertown	Lisa Chiu	Go
4	BFF	Peter Timko	Go
5	Blanche: The Bittersweet Life of a Wild Prairie Dame	Julia Katz	Go
4	Breaking Up with ED: Survivors Speak Out on Eating Disorders	Rebekah Tello	Go
4	Burlesque + Belly Laughs	Tim Treanor	Go
4	Cabaret XXX Love the One You're With	Annie Causey	Go
5	Cecily and Gwendolyn's Fantastical Capital Anthropological, Inquisitorial Probe	Amrita Khalid	Go
3	Children in the Mist: A Horror Opera	Michael Beeman	Go
4	Colony	Chase Meacham	Go
2	Cupcake Cabaret: A Brief History of "Bad" Women	Tim Treanor	Go
2	DADA Returns! (20th Anniversary Edition)	Amrita Kahlil	Go
3	Daydreams	Amrita Kahlil	Go
4	DC Trash	Breena Siegel	Go
5	Dead Man's Mambo	Rebekah Tello	Go
4	Delusions of Grandeur	Michael Beeman	Go
3	Despertar	Chase Meacham	Go
2	Discharged	Breena Siegel	Go
4	Domino's Pizza Saved My Life	Christian Barclay	Go
2	Donna Has a Boyfriend: A Collection of Works	Debbie Jackson	Go
5	Dr. Science's Science Time Science-va-ganza!	Lisa Chiu	Go
5	Dreams in the Arms of the Binding Lady	Robert Duffley	Go
3	ECCE	Tim Treanor	Go
4	Fallen Angels	Stephanie McGill	Go
4	Flight of Fancy (A Steampunk Ballet)	John Bavoso	Go
5	Girls Who Think They're Hot	Debbie Jackson	Go
4	Gorgeous Raptors	Tim Treanor	Go
4	Hamlet	Travis Andrews	Go
1	Harmony	Steve Hallex	Go
4	He Hee (or What? It’s Not Glee?)	Travis Andrews	Go
4	He Loved the Soft Porn of the City	Peter Timko	Go
4	Hysterical Blindness	Chase Meacham	Go
5	I < 3 Hummels	Christian Barclay	Go
3	I Confess	Tim Treanor	Go
3	Imagination Meltdown Adventure	Steve Hallex	Go
4	Inanimate Thoughts	Ben Demers	Go
4	In the Company of de Sade	Ben Demers	Go
5	In This Economy	Ross Preston	Go
4	James Judd's Funny Stories	Rebecca Tello	Go
3	Jesus le MOMO	Tim Treanor	Go
3	Jilly Manilly	Hunter Styles	Go
5	Lady Luck is a Whore	Kelly McCorkendale	Go
3	Language from the Land	Breena Siegel	Go
4	LapBand Texas	Kelly McCorkendale	Go
3	Madame: Helena Rubinstein in America	Rebekah Tello	Go
3	Madwoman in the Attic: Evening of Shorts	Breena Siegel	Go
3	Making Love Legal	Ross Preston	Go
3	McGoddess	Amrita Khalid	Go
4	Me and the Devil Blues	Ben Demers	Go
4	Medieval Story Land	Hunter Styles	Go
3	Mein Kampf - Eine Komodie	Ben Demers	Go
3	Men Don't Listen to Naked Women	Travis Andrews	Go
4	Mindset	Steve Hallex	Go
4	Mitzi's Abortion	Annie Causey	Go
4	My Princess Bride	Missy Frederick	Go
3	Nevermind the Bollocks, Here's a Midsummer Night's Dream	Tim Treanor	Go
2	Nightmerica	Peter Timko	Go
2	No Exit	Robert Duffley	Go
4	OCCUPY This! Tales of an Accidental Activist	Hunter Styles	Go
3	Paul Gonsalves On The Road	Larry Bangs	Go
4	Pericles: Shakespeare vs. Wilkins	Ben Demers	Go
5	Planet Egg	Michael Beeman	Go
4	President Harding Is a Rock Star	Travis Andrews	Go
3	Pushing Boundaries	Larry Bangs	Go
4	R.U.X. (Rockwell's Universal seXbots)	Steve Hallex	Go
4	Raising Cane: A Family Portrait	Victoria Durham	Go
5	Redial	Stephanie McGill	Go
3	Rightful Masters	Lisa Chiu	Go
3	Right to Remain... The Life and Mind of Tupac Shakur	Steve Hallex	Go
2	Rolling By	John Bavoso	Go
4	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead	Tim Treanor	Go
3	Sacred and Scared Get the Same Score in Scrabble	Rosalind Lacy	Go
3	Shock Trauma	Veronica Durham	Go
3	SINGLEMARRIEDGIRL	Amrita Kahlid	Go
4	Souls	Rosalind Lacy	Go
3	Stone Age Recreation: An Operetta	Kelly McCorkendale	Go
3	Stopgap	Chase Meacham	Go
3	Superhero Celebrity Rehab: The Musical	Kelly McCorkendale	Go
4	Sweet Painted Lady	Hunter Styles	Go
4	Tent of Dreams: An Occuplay	Ross Preston	Go
5	The Brontes	Debbie Jackson	Go
3	The Circle	Rebekah Tello	Go
2	The City of God - A New Opera	Larry Bangs	Go
2	The Cloudism Project	Steve Hallex	Go
2	The Comedy of Mirrors	Julia Katz	Go
3	The Confines of Flattery	Christian Barclay	Go
2	The Diamond Star Project	Tim Treanor	Go
5	The Every Fringe Show You Wanted to See in One Fringe Show Fringe Show	Tim Treanor	Go
4	The Extermination Machine	Amrita Khalid	Go
4	the freshman 15/life in transition	Rebekah Tello	Go
2	The Goddess Diaries	John Bavoso	Go
4	The Hair Chronicles	Victoria Durham	Go
3	The Interview	Lisa Chiu	Go
2	The Last Flapper	Steve Hallex	Go
5	The Mercy Seat	Tim Treeanor	Go
4	The New and Improved Stages of Grief	Hunter Styles	Go
3	The Nita and Zita Show	Robert Duffley	Go
5	The Outcasts of Poker Flat: A Chamber Opera	Ben Demers	Go
5	The Play About The Coach	Stephanie McGill	Go
3	The Post Reality Show: Talk Media!	Peter Timko	Go
5	The Pundit	Missy Frederick	Go
4	The Revolution Will Not Be Televised	Victoria Durham	Go
5	The Underdeveloped and Overexposed Life and Death of Deena Domino	Travis Andrews	Go
5	The Webcam Play	Christian Barclay	Go
4	Thomas Is Titanic	Julia Katz	Go
4	Thumbs Up!	Julia Katz	Go
4	Tight Assets	Hunter Styles	Go
3	Trial by Jury	Annie Causey	Go
3	We Tiresias	Robert Duffley	Go
5	Where in the World? The Untold Story of Camilla Sanfrancisco	Kelly McCorkendale	Go
4	Why So Serious?	Tim Treanor	Go
4	Wild Night: A Choose Your Own Burlesque Adventure	Travis Andrews	Go
3	Will Rogers' U.S.A.	Missy Frederick	Go
4	Young Republicans	Lisa Chiu	Go
2	Zero Tolerance: Sex, Math and Seizures	Kelly McCorkendate	Go