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Tail! Spin!, Starring Rachel Dratch, to End Off-Broadway Run

The comedy reenacts four recent preposterous sex scandals.

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Nate Smith, Arnie Burton, Rachel Dratch, Sean Dugan, and Tom Galantich in Mario Correa's Tail! Spin!, directed by Dan Knechtges, at the Lynn Redgrave Theater.
Nate Smith, Arnie Burton, Rachel Dratch, Sean Dugan, and Tom Galantich in Mario Correa's Tail! Spin!, directed by Dan Knechtges, at the Lynn Redgrave Theater.
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The off-Broadway comedy Tail! Spin!, which stars Saturday Night Live's Rachel Dratch, will play its final performance at the Lynn Redgrave Theater at Culture Project on January 4. The production, which was originally scheduled for a limited engagement through November 30, began performances on September 18.

Created and written by Mario Correa (cohost of Entertainment Weekly's daily News & Notes program on SiriusXM), Tail! Spin! offers a verbatim reenactment of the sex scandals that brought down former Congressman Anthony Weiner, former Governor and current Congressman Mark Sanford, former Congressman Mark Foley, and former Senator Larry Craig. The production uses only the words spoken, emailed, tweeted, and texted by the politicians themselves to weave a narrative about the power of sex and the sex lives of the powerful.

In addition to Dratch, the cast of Tail! Spin! includes Arnie Burton, Sean Dugan, Tom Galantich, and Nate Smith. Tony nominee Dan Knechtges directs.

The creative team for Tail! Spin! features scenic and projection designs by Caite Hevner Kemp, costume design by Jen Caprio, lighting design by Ryan O'Gara, and sound design by John Emmett O'Brien.

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