Fruit Flies Like a Banana

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Company: The Fourth Wall, Boston

Genre: Unclassifiable

Venue: 10 - School of Contemporary Dancers

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You haven't really heardMussorgskyuntil you've heard him accompanied by a skipping rope or Billy Joel until you've heard him performed on a toy piano.

Okay, maybe that's not quite true. But the remarkably inventive blend of music, dance and acrobatics delivered here by Boston's the Fourth Wall Ensembleis quite unlike anything else you'll find at the Fringe, and it's completely delightful.

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The three professionally-trained musicians present familiar tunes like Bach'sToccata and Fugue in D Minorand DaveBrubeck'sTake Five, but with twists playing while riding on each other's backs, for example, or performingVinceGuaraldi'sSkatingwhile sliding across the stage on rolling chairs.

They race (literally dashing across the stage and around the theatre) through 22 pieces of music over an hour, played in a random order determined by audience-selected cards. Some bits work better than others, but no matter there's always something new and surprising just around the corner.

Whether you're a music aficionado or not, it's a fun, frenetic, family-friendly delight.