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It Would Appear That I Spoke Too Soon

Friday, August 8th, 2008 | Uncategorized

Happy Friday! Hey! I’ve been nominated for a Fringie! That’s pretty cool. Thanks Fringefamous.com

1.  Ladies and Gents, it would appear that my excitement over getting the encore slot was a tad premature. The juggernaut of a fringe show called Bull seems to have that honor all but sewn up.  Rats! But let’s look on the bright side shall we? I still have one more performance left and I couldn’t be more excited! The only thing that would make this whole affair more exciting would be a packed house on Saturday at 230pm at the Theater Garage! It’s been several days since my last show so here are some reviews in case you’re on the fence.

*Pioneer Press listed the show as a MUST SEE and said,

Mike Fotis is funny. Funnier than the parodies with large, flashy casts I saw on opening night. OK, he doesn’t have fancy props; just a woman plucking a bass and a three-ring binder sitting on a table that he flips through. It sounds boring, but the stories he reads —nay, lives — from those pages are hilarious. He doesn’t need his cohorts from Brave New Workshop to make self-deprecating fun of how Tom Petty torpedoed his budding romance. I never knew picking a schoolyard fight, ridding a house of bats or blogging for retribution could be so entertaining.

— Renee Valois

*City Pages said,

Sit-down comic Mike Fotis (literally, he sits in a chair at a table and reads from a notebook, albeit disarmingly) hit his stride about five minutes into his series of comic monologues on opening night, and combined a storyteller’s cadence with sharp, self-deprecating observational humor. With Jen Scott providing groovy backup on stand-up bass (at least she stands), Fotis tackles many of the pressing issues of the day: his intense self-loathing while playing video games, his teenage musk of “death and sexual desperation,” his first (entirely unjustified) fight, his galaxies-wide fandom for Tom Petty, and his multiple run-ins with bats (squeakers, not sluggers). He also achieves a very high laughs-per-minute ratio. Sat 2:30 p.m. Minneapolis Theater Garage. —Quinton Skinner

The Strib/Vitamn said,

Go ahead and object to Mike Fotis if you want: He sits at a table and reads from a script. You’ll have a lot more fun, though, if you let yourself enjoy his writing and acting. He spins stories about regular stuff — junior high, or the bats in his house — while never forgetting to mock himself at every turn. He’s very funny. - Eric Ringham

Anyhoo, I really hope to see you at the last show.

Mike

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