The worst thing about Toronto…
// July 10th, 2007 // Blog, Kris's Soapbox
…is nothing that is the city’s fault. Ottawa could take a few STRONG hints from the fact that the streets here are lined with bike racks, and that there are recycling bins on almost every corner. Just yesterday I was walking down the street with a bottle of water and an empty coke bottle — looking for the nearest recycle bin — when a guy on the sidewalk (I assume he was on a break) said “hey, buddy… you want me to recycle that for you?”
It’s getting harder to hate this place.
HOWEVER, I must say that I am supremely annoyed with the Dancap Productions people. This is the new company in town that is bring a slew of Broadway shows to Toronto next year. I’m a big fan of this idea and I love the shows they’re bringing in, but the brass at the company have decided to promote the return of The Drowsy Chaperone at the Toronto Fringe Festival. I can see how this makes sense, since the show was born at the Fringe… but they’ve got street teams running all over the place and these people are exuberantly obnoxious and annoying. They run up and down lines, handing out flyers and CD samplers for a show that doesn’t open until September, annoying people in lines AND other Fringe artists who are handing out flyers for their own shows.
The streets are public, and they can do whatever they want, but I think this is a bit rude. The most offensive thing is that the Fringe put up a big wall of “pockets” outside the Fringe Club so that performing companies could leave flyers for potential audience members, and these Dancap bastards have come along and stuffed Drowsy Chaperone flyers in almost all of the pockets. The one in use for our show was so stuffed with them that you couldn’t even see our flyers any more.
I can tell you right now that since these dicks have so little respect for the shows at the festival, I have no respect for the show they’re opening this fall. I am actively trashing all the Drowsy Chaperone flyers I see in places where they get in the way of Fringe flyers which are intended for Fringe patrons at this, our Fringe Festival. I have a big stack, in fact, that I would like to ceremonially burn in front of the next street team I see… but I don’t want to get arrested before our next show.
