Best New

[holierthanthou]

Best Act - Whirly Jig and the guy from the Castle Rock Symphony that sings to the patrons outside of Miss Charlotte's are tied!

Best Hidden Cast Member - The adorable and fun Orlando Bloom Look-a-Like that was put in the Queen Puppet. 

Best New Food and Beverage Employee:  Brittany in the Italian Kitchen.  She is so sweet and has eyes that express her soul. (not biased... just noticed.)

Best Trick Ever - When Paige (the elephant) ate Rook's tip money.  Bill offered to pay him back, but Rook just laughed and said it was funny. 

I am greatly entertained by Pickle with his barrel rider, FireFlicker, Isaac the floating boothie, Jesus Christ (yes he attends... I have pictures!) and if you haven't seen the masks down by the mermaid pond... you are missing true art man!

[Norfolk]

We can verify the JC does attend.  We saw him at the joust ---- rooting for Sir Roderick!!!

[Gauwyn of Bracknell]

We can verify the JC does attend.  We saw him at the joust ---- rooting for Sir Roderick!!!

Off note a bit, we saw JC hawking ale at Minnesota last year 

[Duchess Marguerite]

"Hey Nunnie Nunnie" gets my vote for best new act!  Unfortunately, they were only here in Colorado for 2 weekends.  We were fortunate to catch them again the first couple of weeks in July at the Sterling Ren Fest in NY.  They're always entertaining and fun!!

I agree, the masks down by the mermaid pond are incredible & definitely worth a peek! 
My favorite new food (although not new to the faire, it's just that I finally tried it): rice & beans. yummie!

[Skip]

I really don't have the experience to judge best "new" but I thought FIREFLICKER was fantastic.

[BlueEyedBrittany]

Best New Food and Beverage Employee:  Brittany in the Italian Kitchen.  She is so sweet and has eyes that express her soul. (not biased... just noticed.)

Awwwh! Thank you!
I would love to participate in this thread, but being my first year, everything was new and at its best!

[Platt]

Act:  Whirly Jig.   I love the addition of ShadowCat to it.

Food: Yakitori Chicken.  Tried it for the first time closing weekend  (Mainly cuz it was closest, then realized we'd been missing a lot over the years)

Hawker:  Brother Simon and the Shiney Sign   (Yeah, biased... but meh)

Addition to Cast (ish):  FireFlicker

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Other favorites:

Action Scene: The Bastard Prince Fitzroy showing up to school Skippy (Prince Edward)

Song: The Professor "Snoop Doc" Busting a rap

Stage: "Strapping" (volunteer from audience) picking up and carrying Prince Charming away

Ticketing:  The High Lord Sheriff was gving out tickets again  (Haven't seen that since the time of Robin Hood)

Weirdness:  There was a Rogue (Grimm) who was walking through the rain First weekend, steaming.  He kept yelling "I'm on fire!".  I think he was the only dry person there  (No cloak, no jacket....  Just a gauzy shirt.... and he was STEAMING)

Reconstruction:  Demetrius attempting to change the course of mighty rivers, armed only with a pizza peel.