Friday, July 29, 2011
Lavender be likin' us!
YARRRH! The Lusty, Busty Pirate Musical be featured on racks all over the Twin Cites. Lavender magazine's John Townsend calls it one of "13 FRINGE SHOWS NOT TO MISS!" and tells ye why. Scott Pakudaitis's portrait of our lusty, busty belles be on the cover and on the inside, too! YARRRH!
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Sunday, July 24, 2011
YARRRH on Fresh Fruit
Listen to KFAI's Fresh Fruit show on 7/21/2011 where Ariel Leaf talks about YARRRH! Ariel speaks from about 5 min 33 secs to 8 min 30 secs.
Checking out the competition
While YARRRH! will certainly be the most outré pirate show in town, it will not be the only pirate show in town. Last Friday, the humble scribe of the Fringe's Lusty, Busty Pirate Musical put on his Groucho glasses and snuck off to the Riverview Theatre to see Pirates of the Caribbean 4.
We must admit: No towns, pirate ships, or even taverns will be destroyed in the course of YARRRH! For sheer spectacle, we can't compare. Which is as it should be, considering 1) POTC4 spent roughly 100,000 times what YARRRH! did, and 2) you couldn't really fit their sets and costumes into the Gremlin Theatre, let alone set them up and strike them in 10 minutes.
And yet, to this viewer, who wanted nothing more than to be entertained, POTC4 feel short of YARRRH! in some crucial areas. In the first place, while Penelope Cruz (be still, my beating heart!) has the potential to provide plenty of Bustiness, this was a Disney picture, so cleavage was notably tame. As for Lustiness, this picture had perhaps 2-3 minutes of it in a film running well over 2 hours. So we can claim total victory on the Lusty, Busty front!
And about that two-hour plus running time. There isn't that much difference between the basic plot structure of POTC4 and YARRRH! They're searching for the fountain of youth, we're searching for treasure. They have Spaniards, we have a hand puppet. (Actually, we need our hand puppet, and their show would improve without the Spaniards.) But we take care of our plot in 58 minutes and we have five songs!
Some people say, "less is more." Others say, "more is more." But only YARRRH! The Lusty, Busty Pirate Musical dares to give you both less and more. Make your reservation today!
We must admit: No towns, pirate ships, or even taverns will be destroyed in the course of YARRRH! For sheer spectacle, we can't compare. Which is as it should be, considering 1) POTC4 spent roughly 100,000 times what YARRRH! did, and 2) you couldn't really fit their sets and costumes into the Gremlin Theatre, let alone set them up and strike them in 10 minutes.
And yet, to this viewer, who wanted nothing more than to be entertained, POTC4 feel short of YARRRH! in some crucial areas. In the first place, while Penelope Cruz (be still, my beating heart!) has the potential to provide plenty of Bustiness, this was a Disney picture, so cleavage was notably tame. As for Lustiness, this picture had perhaps 2-3 minutes of it in a film running well over 2 hours. So we can claim total victory on the Lusty, Busty front!
And about that two-hour plus running time. There isn't that much difference between the basic plot structure of POTC4 and YARRRH! They're searching for the fountain of youth, we're searching for treasure. They have Spaniards, we have a hand puppet. (Actually, we need our hand puppet, and their show would improve without the Spaniards.) But we take care of our plot in 58 minutes and we have five songs!
Some people say, "less is more." Others say, "more is more." But only YARRRH! The Lusty, Busty Pirate Musical dares to give you both less and more. Make your reservation today!
Monday, July 18, 2011
Wind in our sails!
Fair winds be a-blowin', and buzz be a-buildin' for "YARRRH! The Lusty, Busty Pirate Musical."
First, a committee of hearing impaired Fringe fanatics has picked YARRRH! as one of the shows they would most like to have ASL described. We are honored! As a result, the performance on THURSDAY, AUGUST 11 at 8:30 will be ASL described at no cost to you or to us. (A big hand for the awesome Fringe folks!) A friendly warning: Historically, this is one of the best-attended time slots of the Fringe, so make your reservations early if you want to attend an ASL-described performance!
Second, the Fringe has asked five local arts figures what shows they are most looking forward to seeing ("Fringe Tracks" at www.fringefestival.org). Tif Roberts, accurately described as "the funniest cabaret host in the world," picks YARRRH! as one of her most highly anticipated shows. "Ok, call me a thespian lesbian," she writes, "but three actresses playing ten gender-bending roles, naughty language, boobs, pirates, and boobs. Yo ho, ho. It is indeed a pirate's life for me." Clearly, Tif is coming to our show with the proper (or improper?) attitude!
Third, we have been invited to plug our show on KFAI's FRESH FRUIT as part of their annual Queer Fringe Binge. So turn your knobs to 90.3 FM from 7:00-8:00 on Thursday, July 21! Ariel Pinkerton Leaf, coproducer and actor (Captain Desirée La Femme etc.) will be telling all --- or at least as much as she can without spoiling major plot points. We are proud of this invitation. While we consider YARRRH! to be a rollicking good time for adults of any sexual orientation, we hope that its camp quotient and pansexual naughtiness will make it one of this year's most GLBT-friendly Fringe productions.
Finally, we will be delivering live and in person an official YARRRH! tease at the Fringe-for-All on Monday, August 25. The first three minutes of our show will be delivered by two of our talented, lovely, and intrepid actresses at Mixed Blood Theatre. The cost for the event is a $4 Fringe button (which you'll have to buy anyway to see any Fringe show) and you will actually have the opportunity to see a whole mess of three minute previews, so you might get some ideas of what other shows you want to see at the Fringe. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. and we'll be on --- well, somewhere in the show. We'll find out about an hour before you do. Whee!
First, a committee of hearing impaired Fringe fanatics has picked YARRRH! as one of the shows they would most like to have ASL described. We are honored! As a result, the performance on THURSDAY, AUGUST 11 at 8:30 will be ASL described at no cost to you or to us. (A big hand for the awesome Fringe folks!) A friendly warning: Historically, this is one of the best-attended time slots of the Fringe, so make your reservations early if you want to attend an ASL-described performance!
Second, the Fringe has asked five local arts figures what shows they are most looking forward to seeing ("Fringe Tracks" at www.fringefestival.org). Tif Roberts, accurately described as "the funniest cabaret host in the world," picks YARRRH! as one of her most highly anticipated shows. "Ok, call me a thespian lesbian," she writes, "but three actresses playing ten gender-bending roles, naughty language, boobs, pirates, and boobs. Yo ho, ho. It is indeed a pirate's life for me." Clearly, Tif is coming to our show with the proper (or improper?) attitude!
Third, we have been invited to plug our show on KFAI's FRESH FRUIT as part of their annual Queer Fringe Binge. So turn your knobs to 90.3 FM from 7:00-8:00 on Thursday, July 21! Ariel Pinkerton Leaf, coproducer and actor (Captain Desirée La Femme etc.) will be telling all --- or at least as much as she can without spoiling major plot points. We are proud of this invitation. While we consider YARRRH! to be a rollicking good time for adults of any sexual orientation, we hope that its camp quotient and pansexual naughtiness will make it one of this year's most GLBT-friendly Fringe productions.
Finally, we will be delivering live and in person an official YARRRH! tease at the Fringe-for-All on Monday, August 25. The first three minutes of our show will be delivered by two of our talented, lovely, and intrepid actresses at Mixed Blood Theatre. The cost for the event is a $4 Fringe button (which you'll have to buy anyway to see any Fringe show) and you will actually have the opportunity to see a whole mess of three minute previews, so you might get some ideas of what other shows you want to see at the Fringe. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. and we'll be on --- well, somewhere in the show. We'll find out about an hour before you do. Whee!
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