About new yorker in tondo..?

Question

who were the characters?

and can you give me simple plot?

thanks!..=]

Answer 1

Is this some sort of play? I'm sorry I don't understand your question.

Characters: a guy from New York, Chinese vendor on the sidewalk, jeepney drivers, typical Chinatown in the Philippines.

Answer 2

oh gawd, the story's kinda cool..

sorry, i forgot the title and the characters as well.

Answer 3

whaty what what?

Answer 4

its a funny story and we played it when i was in college. i forgot all the names except for Kikay, since i played that role. she's the main character, the story was about this lady who went to school in new york city for 10 months 16 days and 7 hours,

(if i still remember it right :)...when she came back to tondo, she acted as if she was a native new yorker. a complete transformation. the whole plot was over at kikay's house and it started where her mother just got home buying groceries at the palengke and she got upset because her mom didn't include celery since she can't live without celery!! and the boyfriend paid a nice visit with flowers and she acted as if she's already a grown woman and that he's only a boy, and they're not a good match anymore. But she found out later in the story that he's been dating her best friend while she was away when the best traitor showed up at her house, at the same time, the best friend's boyfriend showed up there too.i already forgot how.

that's as far as l i can remember, it was fun answering this question while stirring up the good old college memories..thanks!

Answer 5

"New Yorker in Tondo" is a classic Filipino Play by Marcelino Agana, Jr. It is a satire written in the 50's. It is a story about a girl named Kikay who goes to New York and fell in love with it. She acquires all the New Yorkish things - style, looks, language and manners. These things are very obvious when she arrives in the Philippines specifically in Tondo.

Aling Atang, mother of Kikay, has been carried away by her daughters way of living. She tries to converse with everybody in broken English.

Tony, childhood sweetheart of Kikay, decides to visit and catch things up with her friend. He is a simple guy who got secretly engaged with their other childhood friend, Nena.

Nena is a tomboyish type of girl. On her visit in Kikay's house, she finds her friend different and weird. She gets irritated and even imitates Kikay's ways.

Totoy, the Tondo "canto boy" is their other friend who is funny and has a secret love for Nenan which has only been revealded when the two females had a clash.

Near the end, the secret love of the characters in the story is revealded. And the two pairs end up in each other's arms. Kikay is back to her old self -- simple and kind. Most of all, the Filipino value learned by the protagonist which is "there is no place like home", is a lesson on love of country and its culture.