THEATER REVIEW- News Revue 2007

A long running favorite of veteran Fringers, I was informed by the people behind me that this was the only show they had made an annual tradition out of scheduling ahead. Energetic and talented, the versatile four-person-cast gives a fantastic performance mocking recent news stories through satirical songs (“all the lonely people” as a cyber-dating manifesto) and skits. Every scene was kept short and most hit a chord with the nearly-sold-out audience that agreeably chortled and jeered at most every joke.

Nearly half of the humor was targeted at Americans, and these elicited the largest laughs; George Bush’s stupidity, the Iraq War, and even Paris Hilton (sodomized) behind bars!---nothing was sacred. Between Israel, Whales, and the year 1973, there is something for everyone in this variety show. The one-line puns served filler among scene-changes and were particularly pointed, keeping the pace break-neck. There was no time to be offended or shocked--- only tickled at the audacity of the equal-opportunity ridicule (“experts report that pedophilia and childhood obesity are inversely related… because no one wants to fuck a fatty”).