Photo Coverage: Rachel Dratch, Sean Dugan & More Preview TAIL! SPIN!

Tail! Spin!, the outrageously entertaining verbatim reenactment of four recent preposterous sex scandals, begins performances Thursday, September 18 at the Lynn Redgrave Theater at Culture Project (45 Bleecker Street at Lafayette Street), ahead of an official opening on Wednesday, October 1 at 7pm. The cast of Tail! Spin! features Arnie Burton (39 Steps, Peter and the Starcatcher), Rachel Dratch ("Saturday Night Live"), Sean Dugan (Next Fall, "Smash"), Tom Galantich ("House of Cards")and Nate Smith (UCB, FunnyOrDie.com). The cast just met the press and you can check out photos from the big day below!

Using nothing but the words spoken, emailed, tweeted, texted and told by the politicians themselves, Tail! Spin! is created and written by Mario Correa (co-host of Entertainment Weekly's daily "News & Notes" program on SiriusXM and contributor to NPR and WNYC) and directed by Tony-nominee Dan Knechtges (Lysistrata Jones, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee). Tickets, ranging in price from $25 - $75, with premium seating available for $95, are on sale now and can be arranged online at www.tailspinshow.com, or by calling (866) 811-4111.

Politics is dirty - but politicians are dirtier. The truth is laid hysterically bare in Tail! Spin!, the wildly inventive new comedy drawn verbatim from the leaked e-mails, raunchy texts and tell-tale tweets that brought down politicians Mark ("Appalachian Trail") Sanford, Larry ("Wide Stance") Craig, Anthony ("I Was Hacked") Weiner, and Mark ("Underage Page") Foley. Using only the actual words of the disgraced politicians, their paramours, and the skeptical media they tried so hard to spin, Tail! Spin! winningly weaves an intricate, overlapping narrative of the power of sex--and the sex lives of the powerful. The Tail! Spin! cast includes Arnie Burton (39 Steps), Rachel Dratch ("Saturday Night Live"),Sean Dugan (Next Fall, "Smash"), Tom G () and Nate Smith (UCB, FunnyOrDie).

Photo Credit: Jessica Gordon

Arnie Burton, Rachel Dratch and Sean Dugan

Nate Smith, Arnie Burton and Rachel Dratch

Sean Dugan

Nate Smith, Arnie Burton, Sean Dugan, Tom Galantich and Rachel Dratch

Nate Smith, Arnie Burton, Sean Dugan, Tom Galantich and Rachel Dratch

Sean Dugan and Rachel Dratch

Sean Dugan and Tom Galantich

Arnie Burton, Sean Dugan and Tom Galantich

Arnie Burton and Sean Dugan

Arnie Burton, Nate Smith, Rachel Dratch, Sean Dugan and Tom Galantich

Nate Smith

Rachel Dratch

Arnie Burton

Tom Galantich

Sean Dugan