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Curtain Goes Down on IndyFringe 2008
IndyFringe 2008 is in the history books! The ten-day festival featuring more than 250 shows from over 50 performance groups began Friday, Aug. 22, 2008, and ended Aug. 31, drawing 9,880 patrons to Massachusetts Avenue for frivolity, fun, and fringy theatre—our largest attendance in the four-year history of IndyFringe!
Six performance companies completely sold out all of their shows, and several more were near sellouts. Fringe Central provided free entertainment to over 1,600 people in addition to
the street performers in the nooks and crannies of Mass Ave. Over 1,100 people filled out voting forms at VisualFringe; 1,500 surveys were
completed during the festival and diligently collected by our volunteers. More than 300 patrons enjoyed our sneak peek festival preview. VisualFringe enjoyed unprecedented crowds at the IDADA First Friday art walk,
and the cardboard village proved a fun and funky addition to Mass Ave.
August 31 was the highest single-day attendance in the four-year history of IndyFringe, with 1,915 patrons in attendance at the Sunday shows. The top five selling shows during IndyFringe 2008 were: (1) Assholes and Aureoles (pictured above), (2) Moved, (3) Phil the Void: Comedy over Quality, (4) Adventures in Mating, and (5) On the Rag: Heavy Flow.
The IndyFringe Web site enjoyed unprecedented usage in August. In June, our site traffic rank was 1,500,000+ according to Quantcast.com, an independent 3rd party company that tracks and analyzes site traffic for more than 20 million Web sites in America. By August 31, the final day of IndyFringe 2008, our Quantcast site traffic rank had risen to 144,849, putting it in the Top 1% of all Web sites in America in site traffic.
The top five external Web sites that referred visitors to IndyFringe.org during August were: (1) AroundIndy.com, (2) Indy.org, (3) SmallerIndiana.com, (4) Indy.com, and (5) IndianaAuditions.com. We thank all the media outlets, bloggers, and external Web sites who provided coverage of IndyFringe 2008!
Thank you, Indianapolis, for another great IndyFringe! Planning is already underway for the 5th annual IndyFringe, scheduled for Aug. 21-30, 2009. Mark your calendars!
4th Indianapolis Theatre Fringe Festival: Aug. 22-31, 2008
It's Year Four of the Indianapolis Theatre Fringe Festival, a big, bold and bodacious celebration of alternative theatre and performance arts!
53 performers. 270 shows. Six stages. And 10 days of splashy spectacle, provocative pageantry and outrageous outbursts of off-beat theatrical fun.
WHO: 53 performance groups from Indiana, U.S.A. and the world.
WHAT: More than 270 live theatre performances in 10 days, plus fine arts, film festival, street performers, and lots more.
WHEN: August 22-31, 2008
WHERE: Six venues in the Massachusetts Avenue Cultural District.
WHY: Why not?
HOW: Buy a $3 festival badge onsite good for all 10 days, then pay $10 cash per person per show at the door, 30 minutes before any show ($5 under age 12). PERFORMERS RECEIVE 100% OF BOX OFFICE RECEIPTS.
Each show has its own page on this Web site with show description, genre, warnings, and schedule. Check 'em out here. The official program is available online in PDF format (3.85MB Adobe PDF).
Also, the complete schedule of shows is available in various formats: by date and time, by name of show, or by venue. There is also a plain text version that you can print to your printer, and there is an Excel spreadsheet version that you can download to your computer and then sort in any way you like, so that you can plan your own itinerary for IndyFringe 2008!
ABOVE: Alison Vodnoy from Cincinnati presented 'In Rehearsal' at Theatre on the Square during IndyFringe 2008. Photo by Bob Burchfield.
Longest Dinner a Smash Hit on Mass Ave
The Longest Dinner in the Historic Massachusetts Avenue Bricked Alley was a smash hit on August 12, 2008 with nearly 300 in attendance! Featuring a 3-course sit-down dinner, cash bar, IndyFringe buskers, live music and more, with tables placed end-to-end in the Bricked Alley behind Chatham Tap, Metro and Scholar's Inn, it was a splendid evening of good food and live entertainment:
For more photos of the event, visit the News page.
With Thanks to our Sponsors
The Christel DeHaan Family Foundation is one of the sponsors of IndyFringe. The mission of Christel House International is to help children around the world break the cycle of poverty and become self-sufficient, contributing members of their societies. We thank the foundation for its generous support of the Indianapolis Theatre Fringe Festival!
Additional funding provided by The Indianapolis Foundation, NUVO, the Arts Council of Indianapolis, and Young & Laramore. Sponsor page...
FringeFuture: 5th annual IndyFringe: Aug. 21-30, 2009
