2010 Out of the Loop Festival

WaterTower Theatre is proud to announce that the 2010 Out of the Loop Fringe Festival will take place March 4 - 14, 2010.

The Out of the Loop Fringe Festival provides opportunities for existing and emerging theatre, dance and music companies and artists to present work that may vary in form and presentation from their typical content. Together, these companies provide the North Dallas and surrounding areas with a diverse range of artistic endeavors. National, regional and Dallas-based artists in theatre, dance, music, comedy, puppetry, and poetry will be presented side by side throughout the Festival.

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The Three Redneck Tenors present Broadway Bound

The boys have finally made it to the Great White Way – trailer and all – smack dab right in the middle of Times Square. Although the Colonel and the boys have finally found the perfect venue, they're now on a quest to find the perfect show! Join our 3 singing cousins as they stampede their way through Broadway's greatest hits! You'll hear the belt out tunes from such favorite shows as Phantom of the Opera, The Sound of Music, Little Orphan Annie, Les Miserables, A Chorus Line and many others. Join Billy Joe, Billy Bob and Billy Billee as they put the odd in Broadway for a roof‐raising, unforgettable good time.

Seth Rudetsky presents Broadway Seth Rudetsky Style
written and performed by Seth Rudetsky

The star of Sirius/XM Radio’s daily Broadway show and the on‐camera vocal coach on MTV’s Legally Blonde: Search for Elle Woods. Seth explores his own private video and audio collection to show Texan audiences how to deconstruct what's vocally amazing (Patti LuPone in Evita) and what's a vocal travesty (Madonna singing the same material). As a pianist, Seth has played for more than a dozen Broadway shows including Ragtime, Les Miserables, The Phantom of the Opera and The Producers.

Mike Daisey performs Great Men of Genius

GREAT MEN OF GENIUS
A Four-Evening Meditation on Men and Their Gifts

Created and Performed
by Mike Daisey

Directed by
Jean-Michele Gregory

Monologuist Mike Daisey presents a dazzling epic work: four “bio-logues" about megalomania and desire constructed from the interleaved life stories of Bertolt Brecht, P.T. Barnum, Nikola Tesla and L. Ron Hubbard. Over four nights Daisey explores the nature of genius and wrestles with the pride, insanity and chauvinism that bind these men together, and reveals how the heights and depths of their gifts have much to teach us about ourselves. Each evening is unique and can be viewed independently, but all four together form an epic oral accounting of triumph and folly told with Daisey’s dark and hilarious intensity.

Mike Daisey performs How Theater Failed America

A monologue about theater, failure, passion, and hope

Created and Performed
by Mike Daisey

Directed
by Jean-Michele Gregory

Called “the master storyteller…one of the finest solo performers of his generation" by the New York Times, monologuist Mike Daisey sinks his razor-sharp wit into a subject he knows well: the American theater, from the sublimely crass to the genuinely ugly. From gorgeous new theaters standing empty as cathedrals, to “successful" working actors traveling like migrant farmhands, to an arts culture unwilling to speak or listen to its own nation, Daisey takes stock of the dystopian state of theater in America: a shrinking world with smaller audiences every year. Fearlessly implicating himself and the system he works within, Daisey seeks answers to essential and dangerous questions about the art we’re making, the legacy we leave the future, and who it is we believe we’re speaking to.

Immediately following this performance, we invite you to stay for a panel discussion including Mike Daisey, WTT Producing Artistic Director Terry Martin, Dallas Theater Center Artist Director Kevin Moriarty, and local actress Denise Lee. The discussion will be moderated by KERA critic and reporter Jerome Weeks.

Audacity Theatre Lab presents CHOP
written and performed by Brad McEntire

CHOP concerns a man devoid of ambition, with a profound sense of isolation from the busy, happy, productive people around him. Through a chance encounter with a mysterious tattooed woman he is introduced to what may be his true calling - a subculture of unique fetishists who enjoy getting their limbs lopped off. As the guy willing to wield the axe and make the chops, he may finally develop a sense of belonging.

Club 119 Productions presents I Sing!
music & lyrics by Sam Forman & Eli Bolin

Everyone knows everyone wherever you go; New York’s the biggest little town I know.

Hailed as one of the best Off-Broadway scores ever written and described as bringing an Avenue Q style attitude to Sondheim-esque music, I Sing! is the tumultuous tale of love triangles, betrayal, and unrequited desire in the Prozac era. Centering around the lives of five young New Yorkers confronting their futures, I Sing! is an energetic snapshot of a lust for life in the city that never sleeps, a story of youthful sensibilities told entirely in song.

Cyrano Players present Communication Breakdown
by Molly Moroney

Communication Breakdown is a trilogy of one acts that look at the humor in every day experiences. The trilogy begins with Hazards At Horizons about a woman with lost luggage and an unpleasant airline employee. Next, Communication Breakdown and the late arrival of the cable guy gives his customer unexpected consequences. Finally, Futilitarian Hell has a woman caught in the bank's automated phone system where a routine call becomes a nightmare when she believes the government is involved.

David Bithell presents the difference engine
composed and performed by David Bithell

Part Rube Goldberg wizardry, part multimedia feast - this is a performance spectacle you have to see to believe. Trained as a musician, interdisciplinary artist David Bithell takes the virtuosity of musical performance and adapts it in a captivating take on physical theater - from invented musical instruments that have a life of their own to an intricate choreography of gadgets - the difference engine is experimental, genre-defying, funny, and fun.

David Parr presents Mimi at the 44th Parallel
by David Parr

At The 44th Parallel Lounge in the remote outskirts of Kingston, Ontario, a mysterious young man searching for the father who abandoned him applies for a job as a piano player. Instead of his father, however, he finds Mimi, the bright and quirky wife of the bar's alcoholic owner – who may hold the key to all of their destinies. David Parr, author of Eleanor Rigby is Waiting and Slap and Tickle, presents this World Premiere.

Donald Fowler presents a reading of Creep
by Donald Fowler; choral arrangements by Lee Harris

Award-winning actor/playwright Donald Fowler presents the world premiere staged reading of his new musical Creep (the very, very, sad but unfortunately true and completely fabricated tale of Jack the Ripper). Forget everything you think you know about Jack the Ripper - Donald creates his own unique take, loosely based on the facts surrounding the world's first serial killer. Creep features a haunting score and an ending that will leave you breathless.

Girls Gone Weird... Comedy Gone Awry presents Girls Gone Weird: Gone Lupe!

Hey, Baby...You Lookin' for a Good Time? Marisa Diotalevi and Sherry Etzel (a dynamic duo of dames) know how to please with their unique blend of song, dance, sketch and improv comedy. Girls Gone Weird puts the FUN back in funny, the HOT back in hottie, the SIL back in silly, the GUF back in guffaw, the GIG back in giggle, the TIT back in titter, the CHORT back in chortle, the BROAD back in Broadway and the HA back in hardy, har, har!

Menàge à-Ha presents She's Come Undone

Ménage à-Ha! is perky, quirky, jerky comedy where no subject is sacred and the ridiculous is sublime! Sherry Etzel and Maria Zohar have been seen on stages across the D/FW area...and in many late-night, unstaged, spur-of-the-moment performances, which they don't care to expound upon. From celebrity spoofs to tongue-in-cheek sketch and song parodies, it's the most fun you can have with your clothes on!

Muscle Memory Dance Theatre presents The Rubber Room

M2DT dances the personal narratives of four NYC teachers detained in the The Rubber Room - a place of limbo where hundreds of New York City schoolteachers are suspended each year - their teaching privileges temporarily, indefinitely revoked. Accused of a wide range of misconduct, these fully paid NYC teachers are not allowed in the classroom. Instead, they must report to an off-campus location commonly known as “The Rubber Room". Using text from This American Life, M2DT's dance interprets situations occurring in The Rubber Room – a place where a present day Lord of the Flies meets the City Services of NYC.

Rite of Passage Theatre Company presents Binge
by Thomas Ward

Binge is a dark comedy centering around an obese man as he prepares to undergo a life-changing gastric bypass surgery. As the surgery looms closer, he is forced to confront his personal motives and, ultimately, the uncomfortable truth of how he sees himself. Stuffed with humor, anger, passion, and compulsive behavior, Binge asks its audience to consider the nature of beauty, the toxicity of vanity, and to question one's own motives for so-called “self improvement."

SceneShop presents Lost Beat Generation: Troika

This year, SceneShop presents Lost Beat Generation, a lab project of SceneShop. LBG will be offering three short pieces: Jimmy Jim Jim and the MFM by Meron Langsner, followed by Split Pea Soup written by Steven Alan McGaw, and Morrison by Nicholas Irion. This intriguing collection of one-acts feature individuals struggling against foes and obstacles bigger than they are, caught in the maw of circumstances well beyond their control.

Second Thought Theatre presents Power Lunch
by Alan Ball

When an egomaniacal man and an erratic woman meet over a “Power Lunch" they instantly connect, but very quickly detest one another. This combative comedy by Alan Ball, Oscar-winning screenwriter for American Beauty and the creative force behind HBO's True Blood and Six Feet Under, examines the role that gender plays in determining who really holds the power in relationships.

Shane & Erica Peterman present The Glamorous Life

Shane and Erica Peterman invite you into their story of life, love, marriage and parenthood. Told through some of the greatest music of all time, their tale of unconditional love is both humorous and touching. From classic standards like Someone to Watch Over Me and If I Loved You to contemporary pieces such as The Next Ten Minutes and My Stupid Mouth, both singers blend two journeys into one. If you have ever loved someone, have a child of your own or simply enjoy musical theatre - don’t miss this show.

Sound Culture presents Saliendo Abierta (Emerging Open)
written and performed by Tammy Gomez

Acclaimed performance poet Tammy Gomez takes us into the light as she battles the darkness and isolation of solitary confinement. Her newest one-woman work Saliendo Abierta (Emerging Open) explores the internal crisis that ensued when she became trapped in her bedroom closet and the stories, memories, and zen-like focus that helped her open the door two and a half days later.

Sundown Collaborative Theatre presents Videotape
by Cody Lucas

Left alone for 16 years with only the television as their window to the outside, Christian and Abraham attempt to make sense of the world around them. They’ve adapted to their habitat and created their own mythology, but when their routine is disturbed, secrets come to light and their primal nature surfaces. Videotape explores the bond between brothers and what exactly defines a family.

WaterTower Theatre presents My First Time
by Ken Davenport and People Just Like You

"I remember my first sexual experience. I was alone at the time!" (Story #6509)

"I still have the Metallica shirt he wore that night." (Story #23960)

"File mine under clumsy and awkward!" (Story #4294)

In 1998, a decade before blogging began, MyFirstTime.com allowed people to anonymously share their own true stories about their First Times. The website became an instant phenomenon as over 40,000 stories poured in from around the globe. My First Time gives voice to those real, anonymous internet submissions. In stories that are sweet, tragic, awkward, sexy (and everything in between), My First Time will have you laughing in the aisles and thinking about your own First Time.