I'm not at all surprised it is still running. Nudity sells (look how long Oh, Calcutta! ran). The show is clever and charming and here is something many of you may not know...not all the guys have to be "hot". I certainly never would describe myself as "hot", but I was in the Chicago cast for a year. Sure, it helps sell tickets, but talent over attractiveness actually makes it a better show. Most audiences are over the nudity thing by the second number and start paying attention to the performances and lyrics. Well, everyone except the Bachelorette parties who are drunk and think they are at Chippendales and hoot and scream throughout the entire show and try to get onstage and puke in their seats and should be banned from the theatre, but they generate too much income.
I think when people see it, they are surprised to find that it is a little more than just a nudie review. It's insightful and funny and even touching at times. The only thing I don't like about the show is "Kris, Look What You Missed" which is a good song, but completely out of place in the show. It grinds everything to a complete halt and opens a major pitfall of depression in what was otherwise a fun and light-hearded evening. If they wanted to strike an emotional chord in the show, a coming-out song would be far more appropriate to the show's theme than yet another "we're gay, so we have to mention AIDS" song. I mean, why
that song in
that show? Because it's gay? I can't think of any other reason a morose song about death would be in the show. It's like throwing "One Song Glory" into
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change because they both deal with a heterosexuals.
Other than that one number, which is a horribly cliched miscalculation, I think it is a delightful show.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
