TNC's Summer Street Theater Tour BAMBOOZLED Kicks Off

BAMBOOZLED! Or THE REAL REALITY SHOW, a little Operetta for the Street is set to begin August 6th. 

Our hero is a Local Postman, whose route runs from 74th to 81st Street, and along Roosevelt Avenue. Day after day, week after week, he delivers the mail. In snow and Rain and Summer Heat, the mail must go on-He is reliable! There!-A Rock of responsibility! And the perks of the job are there too! Oh, the Happiness of the Birthday Card! The joy of the News of the Newborn! The Sweet Romance of the Marriage Invitation!

But this year there is a terrible change-The pink slips, the Bankrupt Businesses. The Medicare reductions. The teacher layoffs, the Hospital closings, the Firehouse closings, the Library closings-The Library! His local Library! His second home-Closed! And this, along with condolences in Japanese and those back-addressed to Arizona! The weight of the mail hangs heavy on this Postman.

There he sits, in front of his television set-watching Reality shows - Jersey Shore, Deadliest Catch, Sarah Palin's Alaska, Star Chef - once in a while, the news, but the Tsunamis, tornadoes, floods, droughts, the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the war against terror, the wars where we're not really there, but somehow we're bombing them to pieces, haunt him. Haunt his dreams and corrupt his reality.

Suddenly, there appears before him, Diablo Hysterico, the Rock n' Roll King of the Underworld, who reveals to him the Faustian Contract we have made with Nuclear Power. "You are America! Lord and Master of the World." "Who, Me!?-I'm just a Postal worker-A community minded citizen from Jackson Heights, Queens. Why does it all fall on my head?!"

A fugitive from the future screams out what he has seen, and pleads not to be sent back, "Not back to the Future! No! No!" But Diablo sings him away, and the Postman flies with him to see a people-less Planet-A silent world-with nothing but grasses and overhanging trees, and little animals scurrying here and there, and the only vestige of Human Civilization...a few Pokemon characters left over from a digital remix.

BAMBOOZLED, or, THE REAL REALITY SHOW tells us just how a strong young man, slipping quickly towards middle age, can find his way out of the maelstrom of Bad news, towards a brighter, more harmonious planet. That is the circumstance and ever-unfolding plot that lays before us. The possibility of a cleaner, more harmonious planet. And sure enough, this hero fools the Devil and reminds us that a really good postman will ring three times if he has to, and even knock the door down if smoke is billowing from inside the house, and a person is screaming for Help! Away from the power mad search for world domination, to the Alternative Power of the Sun-The Wind and the unfailing power of the people.

SCHEDULE OF PERFORMANCES

Saturday, August 6th - 2PM - Manhattan
TNC, East 10th Street at 1st Avenue

Sunday, August 7th - 2PM - Bronx
St. Mary's Park, 147th Street & St. Ann's Avenue

Saturday, August 13th - 2PM - Manhattan
Jackie Robinson Park, West 147th Street & Bradhurst Avenue

Sunday, August 14th - 2PM - Brooklyn
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Herbert Von King Park at Marcy & Tompkins

Friday, August 19th - 8PM - Brooklyn
Coney Island Boardwalk at West 10th Street

Saturday, August 20th - 2PM - Manhattan
Wise Towers, West 90th Street between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues

Sunday, August 21st - 2PM - Manhattan
Central Park Bandshell, 72nd Street Crosswalk

Saturday, August 27st - 2PM - Brooklyn
Sunset Park at 44th Street & 6th Avenue

Sunday, August 28th - 2PM - Queens
Jackson Heights, Travers Park at 34th Avenue between 77th & 78th Streets

Saturday, September 10th - 2PM - Manhattan
Tompkins Square Park at East 7th Street & Avenue A

Sunday, September 11th - 2PM - Manhattan
Washington Square Park

Saturday, September 17th - 2PM - Staten Island
Stapleton Playground, Tompkins Avenue & Broad Street

Sunday, September 18th - 2PM - Manhattan
St. Marks Church, East 10th Street at 2nd Avenue

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