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Tail! Spin!

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Sorry for the late post about the performance Tail! Spin!, but my computer was acting weird. I’ll keep this post short, and save the bulk for our new website.

Tail! Spin! is an incredibly hilarious and well thought-out play. It satires the theme of political sex scandals, focusing around the four elected officials Mark Foley, Larry Craig, Mark Sanford, and Anthony Weiner. The outstanding bit about Tail! Spin! is that writer Mario Correa utilizes only the texts, speeches, Tweets, and Facebook messages of these “esteemed” officials. Correa beautifully puts a spin on them, creating a hysterical script. At the end of the play, you cannot help but laugh to yourself thinking, “Did they really say that?” The entire cast only consist of five actors/actresses, the four government officials plus SNL star Rachel Dratch, who acts as the women who were part of the scandals.

Tail! Spin! is an off broadway play, and stays true to the off broadway culture (an obscure theme, performed by a small cast, in a small theater, for a small audience). I do recommend going an seeing it!

 

 

Performance at Carnegie Hall

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My apologies to Professor Drabik for being delinquent in posting until this time.

This was my second time seeing an orchestra perform at Carnegie Hall. The first time I attended such a concert I was 12 years old. I went as a favor to my dad, who was going to see one of his students perform. To a 12 year old, the idea of seeing classical music live may not be overly thrilling, but I was really surprised at how much I enjoyed the performance.

So, six years later, I again find myself, once again seeing a classical performance. I found the most captivating piece in this concert to be “The Tempest.” I feel every movement was perfectly executed by the orchestra. I think the contrast within the piece itself between the movements also contributed to my profound enjoyment of it. I will definitely be open to attending more concerts of this nature in the future.

BAM BAM Six Characters in Chaos

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Professor Drabik asked us if we hated her.

The play itself was, in all honesty, very confusing, but thanks to a brief explanation by the awesome Nabila on the 4 train afterwards, everything seemed to fit itself perfectly.

I didn’t pick up the story until the actors started to mimic the characters. The French itself was probably the biggest barrier for most of us in understanding the story, but I liked it in French. I was able to understand the basics and even predict what they were going to say. Haha, Angelika and I were speaking french before we entered the theatre.

On the performance itself: The performance was on the idea of reality vs fiction. When the boy killed himself and the little girl drowned herself, was that all real? All the “characters” disappeared at the end, was this whole thing all just fictional? The show ended kind of abruptly, and I really wasn’t expecting that. I guess the cliff-hanger was the best part of the show- it is left to the viewers discretion to decide whether it was real or not, just like how the director doesn’t know, and had to call of the rehearsal.

To answer Professor Drabik’s question, we definitely don’t hate you. The performance may have gather some negative critiques from the class, but we are not entitled to like everything. If anything, we still appreciate you taking us to these performances that we probably had never heard of, and chances are, might not get the chance to go again! 🙂

 

~Christopher Chong

 

P.S. I wished the subtitles were like the ones at the Lincoln Center Met Opera House, because it was kind of hard to follow both the performance and the subtitles.