2 shows down, 4 to go! Holy cow, has it been fun so far! We have had some fantastic audiences and great comments – thank you to everyone who’s come out to support us so far! You’re wonderful.
Our next show are Thursday – Sunday next week (times listed in my previous post, I believe) – come out and watch, if you haven’t already! If you have, come see it again (and sing along!) or just tell people about it, and make THEM see the show 
What’s exciting is that twice this week I’ve had my photo in the paper because of Fringe! Love it. One was just promo, before we opened, and one was with a review.
Below I’ve copy and pasted the review that Peter Birnie of the Vancouver Sun wrote on our opening night. If you happen to sumble across this, Peter, thank you for the review, but you’ve spelled my name wrong!
(There were two reviews published under the same title, and we were the second…we don’t pay tribute to Victor Borge at all.)
Musical magic pays tribute to Victor Borge
Peter Birnie, Vancouver Sun
Published: Saturday, September 08, 2007
That’s not the case at the Waterfront Theatre, where Kenny’s Fried Chicken: The Kenny Rogers Experience should come with what we used to refer to in my college days at Edmonton’s Strathcona Hotel as “two and a juice.”
No beer inside this theatre, please, but your host has something even better than booze. Jacques Lalonde, who looks and sounds sufficiently like Kenny Rogers, invites us to use our paper-bag Kenny dolls, provided free of charge, to join in the singing.
I’m amazed and, yes, a little appalled at how easily this crusty old musical snob fell into singing along with Lucille, Ruby, Reuben James, Coward of the County and, of course, The Gambler. Lalonde also reminds us that Rogers, who never let a marketing opportunity pass him by, cruised through hippie-dippiness with the First Edition and the acid-tinged Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition is In).
Krystal Yee (It’s an “i,” Peter 
), Ashley Rutherford, Alexandra Staseson and Nadia Hovan are funny as Kenny’s ex-wives club, although they should have microphones to be heard properly in the sharp parody song When You’re Married to Kenny Rogers.
Otherwise they’re a great backup gang for many of Lalonde’s renditions, as are drummer Bryan Siver and guitarists Rex Rekker, Tony Rees and Kempton Dexter.
Our host describes his show as homage/fromage, and cheesiness is certainly Lalonde’s leitmotif as he leads us through Kenny’s kooky life.
I’m guessing that’s why brilliant singer Kat Wahamaa is introduced as ’50s pin-up icon Bettie Page, then sings the Sheena Easton side of the duet We’ve Got Tonight. Ashley Rutherford’s turn as Dolly Parton for Islands in the Stream was less successful on opening night. Like a lot of the little glitches in this singalong slapstick, the show should grow into itself quite nicely before closing on Sept. 16. (Earlier, if Kenny’s lawyers find out about it.)
pbirnie@png.canwest.com
Go to www.vancouversun.com to watch Peter Birnie’s guide to the Fringe.
