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Opening weekend attendance up 19%

MINNEAPOLIS AND ST. PAUL — Minnesota Fringe Festival, the Midwest’s largest performing arts festival, opened with a remarkable 19 percent jump in attendance over last year’s event, the festival announced today.

Preliminary numbers for the first four days of the annual eleven-day performing arts festival—Thurs., July 30 through Sun., Aug. 2—show that 16,814 tickets were issued, [...]

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Day 1 reviews

Reviews are coming in — from the audience and from the press.

Star Tribune
Pioneer Press‘ master Fringe control page
Audience reviews

More coming throughout the day… Woo hoo! Plus:

Much more Star Tribune and vita.mn coverage
City Pages puts their spotlight on us
3-Minute Egg’s Fringe coverage at vita.mn
MinnesotaPlaylist.com’s word, video and photo blogging
Twin Cities Daily Planet’s Fringe bloggers
And loads more!

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Matt Peiken’s “3-Minute Egg” and vita.mn are making video on the Fringe this year. Here’s episode #1!

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Strib: Fringe nomads

StarTribune’s Graydon Royce has a great profile of some Twin Cities-based Fringe performers who have been going around the Fringe circut lately.

Our favorite bit:

[Katherine] Glover recalled a San Francisco crowd of seven — six of them staffers or volunteers. Ironically, she said, that was one of her favorite audiences (“They laughed at everything”).