As the clock ticks past midnight it is now the penultimate day of Fringe and I just want to thank everyone who contributed their time, effort and reviews to the Jenny, as well as all those performers who helped spread the word about us. There are a limited number of single page print editions in the Jenny Boxes at Hospo and the Beer Tent with some recommendations for the last weekend. Speaking of the Beer Tent some of the Jenny staff and contributors will be there Saturday night to help come up with some categories for the Jenny Awards. Here is Editor Emeritus Coral McKendrick to explain more about the Jenny’s.

Murray Hunter

It’s Time to talk Jenny Awards.

The last show of the Fringe, The Jenny Awards, happens upstairs at The King’s Head (Venue 14), on Sunday night, July 28th, around 10ish.

It is definitely not the Oscars. For one thing, our awards, individual little stuffed
donkeys, lovingly hand crafted by the inestimably talented Michelle Cook, are cuter than the Oscars. They will also fetch a whole lot less at the pawn shop if your theatre career takes a sudden nose dive.

For a show to be nominated for a Jenny, it has to have graced our site in some way—review, SSP, a letter, a column mention, or someone from your show identifying themselves as being in a show when they write a review or letter. And any of those must be emailed to us by 6 PM on Saturday, the 27th. Contributions will be accepted after that time, they just won’t count as Jenny award qualifiers.
NOTE: the chunks of the Fringe program attached to every show on our site DO NOT COUNT as award qualifiers. This is not the Fringe awards. It’s the Jenny Awards.

If a show is already in our SSP or review lists, it’s eligible. If not there are 18 or so
hours to qualify. If you still have shows on Saturday or Sunday and haven’t yet shamelessly promoted yourselves, do it now. Or talk someone into reviewing you, or review someone else, and add your show or company name to your signature. Even if Murray hasn’t published your contribution by 6pm Saturday, we will go by the time you emailed it. Or you can write us a letter about anything related to the Fringe.

As to the show itself: It’s a shout fest. Host, Shawn Kowalke, (The Horrible Friends),
will read the categories and the nominees. When you hear something you like—most likely your own show’s name—go nuts. The point is to shout loud, not long. Jenny people stationed around the room will award points according to how loud it is where they are stationed. Those numbers will be added to the noise level rating at the Jenny table and the
highest number wins. In case of a tie, we’ll give you something dumb to do to determine the winner.

If your Fringe is done and your company is beating a hasty retreat out of town and
won’t be attending, please let us know. It’s a major bummer when your fans raise the roof and there’s no one from your company to accept. The people whose supporters were the second noisiest, will be happy, cause they’ll go home with a donkey instead of you. ‘Cause here’s the thing: a member of your company must be present to accept. No exceptions. There’s no sending someone to accept in your place. Neither will we send awards to your home, nor allow a supposed confederate to take it to you at some place along the Fringe circuit, Be there or be an also ran.

Since there’s no King’s Head extended patio, we don’t know how it will affect our crowd, so if you need a seat, be there when the doors open at around 9:00.

Oh, and as we proved at least once, we can be bribed. See you at the Jenny Awards.

Coral McKendrick