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The Wau Wau Sisters
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- Address Visit Website New York, NY
- Website http://www.wauwausisters.com/
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The Wau Wau (pronounced "Vow-Vow," or "Va-Vow") Sisters perform at Galapagos, a converted warehouse, in bohemian Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Tanya and Adrienne (they are in fact sisters) perform a free show every Monday night, from 10pm-12:30am, from October through June. These twenty-something cuties entertain with a wide array of costume changes and acrobatics, all while strumming chic pink guitars and singing songs of sexual ambition and disillusionment.
The show, while sexy in a cute sort of way, is not exactly erotic. But that said, the sisters do favor frilly bikini bottoms, feather boas, sparkly tiaras, vanity muscle tops, and pink high heels. The costumes are dazzling and there are lots of them. The sisters first appear as natural brunettes, wearing pink and black "Rocker" baby T-shirts. As the evening progresses, they morph into platinum-haired birthday presents wearing nothing but large pink boxes and bows in their hair. In later sets, they dress up as diamond-white trapeze artists and, most strikingly, as members of the band Lynyrd Skynyrd. Accessories include silver dog collars and dolls of the plastic and inflatable variety. For a low- to no-budget production, the visual effects are impressive.
The sisters also impress with their limber bodies. The trapeze segment is a remarkable feat in which the two twirl around a single bar suspended from the ceiling of the crowded room. As they rotate around the bar, supporting each other by the ankles, the feathers fly and the room goes silent. At one point, they even appear to steal a kiss (incestuous fantasies, anyone?). Tanya, a Molly Shannon look-alike, demonstrates the most impressive gymnastic prowess, standing on her hands during an entire song (she isn't singing or playing guitar, however), and supporting Adrienne's weight while in a backbend for the duration of another song. The sets are short (15 minutes), and the time between them long (for the elaborate costume changes), but the wait is worth it. Judging from the large, boisterous crowd of artists, hipsters, and former dot-commers that came out late on a Monday night, there’s no doubt that the sisters have a cult following. As soon as they took the stage, the audience burst forth with song requests ("play Jezebel") and graphic catcalls. The sisters maintained a familiar, intimate connection with the spectators with their folksy—and at times—corny material. The lyrics are not always the most innovative: "A pinch of you/to put in my stew; A gallon of you/puts my car on the freeway," but they can get a little racy: "my pussy is dry and my panties are wet" The musical highlights were a lip-synched version of "Free Bird" accompanied by a striptease and a ballad-like version of Quiet Riot's "Cum On Feel the Noize."
The Wau Wau Sisters may never play Carnegie Hall, but their fans don’t care. They just eat them up. As one friend said the night I saw them, "they're so bad, they're good, and that's really good," but then again, he had had quite a few drinks. Between sets, the girls and their boyfriends (and even their father) mingled with the audience, and at the end of the show, they emerged once again—to accept well-deserved donations (after all, it was a free show). My new friends at the bar encouraged me to stay until the end of the show for a rhinestone-clad creature called the Bunny Man, which everyone agreed is beyond description. Un¬for¬tunately, he didn’t show that night, guaranteeing that this writer will definitely return to see what all the fuss is about.
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