TNC Street Theater
The title refers to tap as in wiretap. It's a musical comedy inspired by the US Patriot Act that asks, "what kind of a world would we have if everybody lived by the corporate shuffle-hop?"
A Corporate "Entertainer" adopts a disciple and endeavors to teach him the "Corporate Street Smarts"--misinformation and manipulation of every kind, cheating, fudging, lying in the classiest manner. But the kid can't get it. So the Master shifts to more promising pupils: a middle class couple who have just been evicted from their home to make way for a shopping mall. Anxious to "get ahead," the couple learns fast, finding themselves in the land of cell phones and BlackBerries and tapping into the big city code of ethics. Everyone around them, afraid to lose the little they have won by sweat and hard labor, joins in the Corporate Tap Dance. They tap themselves right into the war in Iraq, the condo-ization of rental apartments, privatization of public housing, destruction of health care and decimation of public education. On the way, they pick up a gun and a barrel of oil, and suddenly, their faces are gone,
leaving only blank spaces.
The production, free to all New Yorkers, has book, lyrics and direction by Crystal Field and musical score composed by Joseph Vernon Banks.
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Detailed schedule information:
In New York City streets, parks, and playgrounds throughout the five boroughs.
S C H E D U L E:
Sat, August 5th - 2 PM - Manhattan - TNC, East 10th Street at 1st Avenue
Sun, August 6th - 2 PM - East Harlem - Courtney Callendar Playground, 130th Street at 5th Avenue
Sat, August 12th - 2 PM - Manhattan - St. Marks Church, E. 10th St. at 2nd Ave.
Sun, August 13th - 2 PM - Brooklyn - Herbert Von King Park at Marcy & Tompkins
Fri, August 18th - 8 PM - Brooklyn - Coney Island Boardwalk at W. 10th St.
Sat, August 19th - 2 PM - Bronx - St. Mary's Park at 147th St. & St. Ann's Ave.
Sun, August 20th - 2 PM - Manhattan - Central Park Bandshell, 72nd Street Crosswalk
Sat, August 26th - 2 PM - Brooklyn - Prospect Park Concert Grove
Sun, August 27th - 2 PM - Staten Island - Clove Lake Park
Sat, September 9th - 2 PM - Manhattan - Wise Towers at W. 90th St. bet. - Columbus & Amsterdam
Sun, September 10th - 2 PM - Queens - Travers Park, Jackson Heights (34th Ave. betw. 77th and 78th Sts.)
Sat, September 16th - 2 PM - Manhattan - Tompkins Square Park at E. 7th St. and Ave. A
Sun, September 17th - 2 PM - Manhattan - Washington Square Park
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