Darren Lee Cole, producing director of the not-for-profit, SoHo Playhouse recently announced the final round of selections for this year's Fringe Encore Series. This completes this year's selection of productions hailing from Adelaide, Brighton, Hollywood, Edinburgh and Winnipeg Fringe Festivals and takes place now through October 22, 2017.
Tickets are $29-$49 and can be purchased by visiting www.sohoplayhouse.com. Please check website for the most up to date schedule.
You are invited to escape into the wonderful world of Fafi D'Alour and The Delinquents, an evening of exquisite performance and sensual titillation. Led by Madame Fafi D'Alour, her delightful delinquents are as cheeky as they are talented. Presenting proficiency in exceptional jazz vocals and breathtaking physical movement of burlesque, ballet, jazz, contemporary, contortion and lyra. A wild sensual emporium of song, dance and costume, Fafi D'Alour invites you into her firework of femininity and bedazzlement.
Accompanied by powerful women in music; from Nina Simone, Etta James and Amy Winehouse to Beyoncé and Christina Aguilera, a triumph of female empowerment. This cabaret spectacle encompasses themes of self-expression and bodacious women, sure to set your senses ablaze! You won't believe your eyes, to wonderment that lies behind the shimmer and the lights; with crystals and feathers, glitter and pearls, you'll be dazzled with glamour and transferred into another world. Accompany us; as we define the dreamscape of your utmost desires.
Fafi D'Alour & The Delinquents is comprised of highly talented, charismatic and beautiful young professional women whose talent is some of the strongest in Adelaide, Australia. Fafi D'Alour is an internationally trained commercial/Latin dancer and dance teacher. As well as self-made director and producer of this production and dance school 'Fiona Smith Dance Creatives'. Amelie is an award winning, classically trained vocalist and vocal coach, with a Bachelor of Music in Classical Voice Education and Pedagogy, specializing in classical voice with a strong background in musical theatre, jazz and contemporary music. Georgia van der Sman is an incredible trained commercial dancer/aerialist, completing Commercial Dance (Certificate IV). Kate Ryan is classically trained dancer with over a decade of performance experience in ballet, jazz, tap and contemporary.
Performance Dates:
Fringe Encore series producer, SoHo Playhouse, Inc.'s judges have traveled to eight festivals over four continents to select this year's roster of amazing Fringe shows. They include: from Winnipeg Fringe Festival -6 Guitars, Josephine, Edgar Allen, Fruit Flies Like a Banana: World Tour, Macbeth Muet; from Edinburgh - Enterprise, Kafka and Son, The Kinsey Sicks: Things You Shouldn't Say, and Shit I'm In Love With You Again; from Brighton - Identity Crisis, Mengele, Trippin, Shell Shock; from Adelaide- Jimeoin: Ridiculous, Fafi D'alour and The Delinquents; and from Hollywood Blamed: An Established Fiction, Turbulence! Just Like Life.
For a full slate of show times in this year's Fringe Encore Series, visit www.sohoplayhouse.com.
Now in its 12th season, the Fringe International Encore Series will continue to celebrate the "Best of the Fests" despite there not being a New York International Fringe Festival. This year's selection committee has looked to renowned Fringe Festivals around the globe including Adelaide, Brighton, Edinburgh, Winnipeg and Hollywood Fringe Festivals to fill the slate for the coveted encore performances slots.
The Fringe Encore Series was created to provide opportunities to those Fringe shows that excelled over other Fringe productions both artistically and commercial, by offering them an extended run at the historic SoHo Playhouse. This extended run gives these worthy shows a platform for future productions and success. Many of the previous productions featured in the series have gone on to extensive Off-Broadway runs and international success including such as Drama Desk Nominees Krapp 39 (FringeNYC 2008), Jamaica Farewell (FringeNYC 2009), Triassic Parq (FringeNYC 2012), We Live By The Sea (Edinburgh 2016) and Rap Guide To Religion (Edinburgh Fringe 2015).
SOHO PLAYHOUSE serves the downtown theater community as an historic 199 seat Off-Broadway venue. It was on this stage that Mr. Albee produced many first works of Terrance McNally, John Guare, Lanford Wilson, Sam Shephard, AR Gurney and LeRoi Jones. The Playhouse is on a mission to preserve and protect the wonderful artists that make up Off-Broadway's downtown theatre scene. Darren Lee Cole has been artistic director since 2004.
Fringe Encore Series (Britt Lafield- Founder) was created as a learning center and stepping stone for the young talent and amazing productions that are a part of The New York International Fringe Festival every August in New York City. Now having expanded to include the largest Fringe Festivals in the world, Fringe Encore Series presents, promotes and educates the "best of" productions from each festival and allows more time for theater going public to catch the fresh new voices of today's theater.
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