An off-Broadway show, My First Time, is giving out free tickets for virgins
NEW YORK: How do you prove you’re a virgin in the town that inspired “Sex and the City”?
The producers of an off-Broadway show are giving away free tickets to anyone who can demonstrate his or her chastity.
Which raises the question: Just how will the theater know?
Producer Ken Davenport, 34, had a hypnotist screen people standing in line for the free tickets to Thursday’s first preview of his 90-minute comedy, “My First Time,” and determine their status.
The show, which opens July 28, is based on a decade-old Web site that invites people to anonymously share their stories about losing their virginity: “I still have the Metallica shirt he wore that night,” one person wrote on the Web site.
Davenport’s human lie detector, Sebastian Black, described himself as a mind reader and a psychic hypnotist. Davenport called him “a master of body language and tone of voice.”
About three dozen prospective virgins stood before the 55-year-old hypnotist. He held each one’s hand, probing each face as he asked simple questions about their daily life — then threw some a curve ball, “When was your first time?”
Kelly Meneer, a vivacious 22-year-old who studies acting, walked away a shoo-in.
“He knows my pathetic love life!” she said with a big smile, glancing at a male friend.
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