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Last night's Fringe-For-All went very, very well! I was up 9th in the first half (15 companies in each half), following a couple of videos from out-of-town shows. With 30 companies up total in the evening the 3-minute time limit is very strictly enforced as the audience is instructed to applaud you offstage once your time runs out. For my show I chose to keep it simple: the description of the Schrödinger's cat experiment, punctuated at the end by the "crush the can" experiment that I also used in my trailer. My biggest fear was that something would go wrong with the experiment (which requires boiling water and steam to work correctly), and with only 3 minutes there isn't a lot of time to fix anything. Fortunately the experiment went PERFECT and the can crushed exactly when I wanted it to, plus the description of Schrödinger's cat went over very well.

I received a lot of positive feedback afterward which had me very excited! The Ritz Theatre was packed, which means a total crowd of around 200 or so people, and so the stakes at the Fringe-For-All can be high. Perform well, and people who might not have your show on their radar decide to check it out. Perform badly and even those who were interested in your show may cross you off their list.

Being in the first half allowed me to watch the majority of the other performances, including a few shows I'd seen previews of before, and overall the quality of the shows was very good. It's clear there will be no shortage of good shows to attend, the only difficult is fitting them all in (which I know I never will, especially with 10 performances of my own).

So I'm definitely pleased with how last night turned out, and I even made a mention in MinnPost today!