We're talking celebrity nakedness here. Well, celebrity to the theater community anyway. Color me shallow, but it's intriguing to see someone famous and think "I've seen his ding-a-ling!"
I thought it might be fun to gather a list of actors who've exposed some skin on the Broadway stage. Help me add to my very meager list by listing the actor, the show and the exposed body part(s)
....sure. And maybe later we can crawl under the covers with a flashlight and the National Geographic and look at the naked natives!
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mamie4 5/14/03
Jayne Mansfield appeared nude onstage (though covered by a towel) in George Axelrod's play WILL SUCESS SPOIL ROCK HUNTER? in the mid-1950s.
By law she was supposed to have worn a flesh-colored body stocking, but she insisted on doing it nude. She drove the management crazy (they could haave been raided had word gotten out) as she would lounge about fully naked backatage before she would get onstage for her first appearance (on a massage table).
I noticed that nobody mention "Frankie and Johnny". Edie Falco and Stanley Tucci (then lovers) bared every single inch of their lovely bodies, as did their replacements, Rosie Perez and Joe Panteliano.
Marin Mazzie in PASSION-still have dreams about it!
The Whole cast (except Dennis O'Hare & the Coach) of Take Me Out
Stephen Spinella and Joe Mantello in Angels in America (Not sure if Cynthia Nixon/Marcia Gay Harden did)
If you sat in the right seat during Bebe's Chicago days, you got a very special surprise...
"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive.
"Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot."
"No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one."
Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.
A number of the cast members in "Doubles". Peter Firth in "Equus".
"Smart! And into all those exotic mystiques -- The Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques. I hear she knows more than seventy-five. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive!"
Actually, didn't the Coach strip down for the 2nd act group shower?
There was a second-act shower? Not in the version I saw (did you see the early three-act version?)
BlueWizard's blog: The Rambling Corner
HEDWIG: "The road is my home. In reflecting upon the people whom I have come upon in my travels, I cannot help but think of the people who have come upon me."
There was a scene with the coach and about 5 of the baseball players. Shower heads came down from the ceiling and they all showered for a very long scene. I thought it was Act 2. But the coach was definitely center stage, in front and nekkid.
The truly beautiful should be lawfully restricted from wearing clothing; and the truly butt-ugly should be lawfully mandated from going naked.
Um...no he wasn't...at least not in the Broadway production...The coach was, like 70 years old.
"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive.
"Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot."
"No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one."
Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.
Not in the production I saw either -- the Toronto production, using the same finished script as the Broadway version. What's the context of this shower?
BlueWizard's blog: The Rambling Corner
HEDWIG: "The road is my home. In reflecting upon the people whom I have come upon in my travels, I cannot help but think of the people who have come upon me."