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Is A Blog Considered Community Property?
Thursday, August 10, 2006 at 5:41 PM
Filed under shows for the parents

[In accordance with Equity rules, the role of "the Blogger" shall be performed by Chris Gennaula tonight instead of Wendy Gennaula.]

The following two shows are for the parents--they are not part of the Kids Fringe.

Tape

The 3 characters of Tape share a secret. As the play begins you think you can quickly size up who Vince (Stephen Frethem) and Jon (Nicholas Leeman) are. But then the secret starts to come out. What you think of these two men begins to change. Then Amy (Christiana Clark) comes on stage and you can’t take your eyes off her. What is her view on the secret? What is she going to do next?

Tape is a great first act. It is a self contained story, but I wanted to spend more time with these three people. I must admit that the first 15 to 20 minutes dragged a bit, but I don’t fault the cast. I believe it is a problem with the script.

As I looked around the thrust theater at the Rarig, I wanted there to be more filled seats. They have one more show at 10pm on Friday. I would strongly recommend this show.

Google, The Musical.

Uneven.

That’s my one word review for this show. This show is trying to be an equal opportunity satire. Sometimes it works-sometimes not. Structurally, it is something between a review and a through story show about how Google controls our lives.

Abhrajeet Roy (playing Rajit) and his love song to his "A Dell" (as in the computer, get it?) is really funny. Meri Golden playing Jessica was always a joy to watch. About 2/3 of the way through a montage of gameboy games has some really inventive staging and the break dancing was great.

But the music became a techno/gaming/pop wash of sound for me. I had trouble understanding the lyrics-which was not helped by the switching back and forth between acoustic and amplified voices.

The running gag with "Gameboy" or "Doug" (who has Aspergers) didn’t strike me as funny. In fairness I am coming at this from personal experience of family members on "the spectrum". Satire is great, but it has to be so funny that you forget that it might be offensive.

It was interesting to note the demographics of the audience: mainly 20 or 30 somethings.

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Comments

Posted August 11, 2006 at 1:58 PM by Nicholas Leeman
Chris,

Thank you for coming to see TAPE, and enjoying it well enough to mention our last performance. The only comment I would have is that my character's name is "Jon," not "Josh."

:^)

Thanks again, -Nicholas

Posted August 11, 2006 at 3:04 PM by Chris Gennaula
Thank you for pointing out the error. It's been corrected.

Posted August 11, 2006 at 3:32 PM by Stephen Frethem
You see how nit picky he is? Can you imagine what it's like to work with him onstage? ;-)

Thanks for the great review of Tape! ~SF