'Let My People Come' the sex musical

[JoizeyActor]

Posted: 8/26/04 at 8:59pm

Any of you hippies go and see this Off-Broadway show? Sounds excellent.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 8/26/04 at 9:34pm

I was too young to see it back in the 70's, but I know it was a huge long-running hit -- a sorta "Oh Calcutta"-junior. The choreographer of my high school musicals was in it -- he was a crazy freak so I can only imagine how odd the show was.

[JoizeyActor]

Posted: 8/26/04 at 9:43pm

Let's bring it to Broadway. Yay.

[EffieWhite]

Posted: 8/26/04 at 9:47pm

Although I've never considered myself a hippie, I did see the show. Twice actually, but for the life of me I can't remember why. All that I can recall is that the material was pretty lame, the cast was talented, and that there were two erotic "gay" dance numbers long before it was the norm. The pas-de-deux between two men was VERY exciting for this, then young and inexperienced guy.

[Jon]

Posted: 8/26/04 at 10:29pm

I just recall reading that there was an Andrews Sisters type number called "He's the Cunnilingus Champion of Company C".

[kjklo]

Posted: 8/26/04 at 11:00pm

Yes, and as I recall, the publishers of "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" sucessfully sued the show over plagiarism. Never saw it, but remember all the talk and the weekly ads in the Village Voice. I believe the son of old time Broadway columnist Earl Wilson was the creator.

[Corine2]

Posted: 8/26/04 at 11:08pm

Earl is a great guy. He and Bob Blume brought it to the stage.
I was a baby. Was it good?

[CurtainUp2]

Posted: 8/26/04 at 11:13pm

Believe it or not I had the cast recording on LP for the longest time. I was too young to see it when it played Off-Broadway, but I somehow became aware of the show and bought the LP. I must have read about it in "After Dark" magaizine, for which I had a subscription. Remember "After Dark" magazine? They used to mail it in a plain brown wrapper. LOL! But I digress. Anyway... I was still living at home with my parents at the time. I couldn't have been more than 14 or 15. I remember one song imparticular. It was called "I'm Gay". I can still hear it in my head. It went something like... "Dear mom and pop, how can I tell you? I never thought I'd ever find the nerve." etc... I use to play it over and over again in my room. Ya think I was trying to tell my parents something? Thanks Joizey, for the trip down memory lane!

Updated On: 8/26/04 at 11:13 PM

[kjklo]

Posted: 8/26/04 at 11:36pm

"After Dark" is a trip down memory lane in itself!

[JoizeyActor]

Posted: 8/27/04 at 12:18am

Well the cast recording is on sale on E-bay. That's where I first heard of it. It should still be on if any of you fans want to buy it for memory's sake. I guess just search for the title and it should come up.

[sambaflora]

Posted: 8/27/04 at 12:44am

I was turned on to this show a few years back via a compilation CD called 'Les Chansons des Perverts' (put out by the great German label Crippled Dick). The choice track presented from the show was 'Come In My Mouth', the title of which says everything you could possibly want it to.....plus some.

Man, what I would do to see the Cheno squat on stage + warble that one.

Link to Album/Sample below:

Les Chansons Des Perverts

Updated On: 8/27/04 at 12:44 AM

[JoizeyActor]

Posted: 8/27/04 at 1:28am

Mwuaha.

[once a month]

Posted: 8/27/04 at 11:39am

I STILL have the LP! There were a couple of good numbers, I loved I'm Gay and the dirty word song, sort of like the Naked Boys Singing number for different nouns representing p****. My LP jacket was autographed and I found it years ago in a little used record shop on Christopher Street. I STILL miss After Dark and have about a half dozen of my favorite issues. It was like losing a 'friend'.

[uncageg]

Posted: 8/27/04 at 11:46am

Oh my goodnes...I forgot about this musical!!! I saw it years ago. From what I can remember, it was good.

[divster]

Posted: 9/16/04 at 8:25am

i have the mp3 for "Let my people come" if anyone is interested

[WOSQ]

Posted: 9/16/04 at 9:28am

Dear God, this was a bad sex musical, worse than Oh Calcutta which at least had innovative projections.

Granted I saw the revival which played briefly in about 1983, but talk about making sex dull. That production did get some publicity because one of the women had won some Miss Connecticut title in a minor league pageant, maybe College Queen or Junior Miss.

The show payed about 4 years originally at the Village Gate and then moved to the Morosco for the last few months. It made a fortune.

Yes, Earl is/was a real nice guy, but he sure couldn't write a very good musical.

Was the original off-Bway production non-Equity? I seem to think it was. The revival was.

[mikeonbroadway]

Posted: 9/16/04 at 11:08am

Um, if we're still talking about crazy sex shows...did any see Dionysus in '69 either when it first played or on film or anything? We talked about it for about 5 minutes in Script Analysis a year or so ago, but it has intrigued me since.