Nudity on stage — Page 2

#26

re: Nudity on stage

Posted: 4/16/07 at 2:55pm

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#27

re: Nudity on stage

Posted: 4/16/07 at 2:56pm

Kathleen Turner's nudity was in The Graduate, not Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, where she appeared in a slip.

The nudity in Dracula changed during previews, and if I remember correctly, they did away with the nudity for matinee performances.

#28

re: Nudity on stage

Posted: 4/16/07 at 4:17pm

Wow, I don't know how I could mis-remember a Kelli O'Hara nude scene.... Obviously the brain is draining. Or maybe I was thinking about Carla Gugino's nude scene in After the Fall, that same season - she definitely had her back to the audience when she stepped out of her robe.

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#29

re: Nudity on stage

Posted: 4/16/07 at 4:33pm

It's Equus, and Potter.

That is all.

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#30

re: Nudity on stage

Posted: 4/16/07 at 4:34pm

Vanessa Redgrave in Orpheus Descending. I still get tingles.

...now if we could only get Debra Monk to start strippin'!

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#31

re: Nudity on stage

Posted: 4/16/07 at 5:01pm

I'm all for nudity of men only. Naked women is exploitative, degrading and overdone. More nude men please.

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#32

re: Nudity on stage

Posted: 4/16/07 at 5:29pm

In general I think guys are more comfortable with casual nudity. Friends of mine who have played nude scenes say that after the first one it's not a big deal. Funny that in movies, actresses are more inclined (forced?) to do nude scenes than actors.

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#33

re: Nudity on stage

Posted: 4/16/07 at 5:35pm

"The nudity in Dracula changed during previews, and if I remember correctly, they did away with the nudity for matinee performances."

Saw it in previews and the matinee at the end of the run. Not too much changed, but the nudity certainly was not changed - nor did they do away with it for matinees.

#34

re: Nudity on stage

Posted: 4/16/07 at 5:54pm

I agree with BETTY BOY!

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#35

re: Nudity on stage

Posted: 4/16/07 at 5:56pm

But people still find it shocking to see male nudity. I remember seeing a Wed matinee of Love Valour Compassion and there was an audible gasp from the audience at the first penis that was in clear view.

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#36

re: Nudity on stage

Posted: 4/16/07 at 5:58pm

"I'm all for nudity of men only. Naked women is exploitative, degrading and overdone. More nude men please."

How sexist and selfish...

#37

re: Nudity on stage

Posted: 4/16/07 at 6:02pm

""I'm all for nudity of men only. Naked women is exploitative, degrading and overdone. More nude men please."

How sexist and selfish..."


It's his opinion, why don't you add how you feel about the topic instead of debasing his?


As for me, I find nudity to be fine unless it makes for an awkward moment that has nothing to do with the story and doesn't make sense being there. Sometimes nudity is done to elicit a reaction and for no other reason which is when I feel it pulls the scene down.

edited for clarification*

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Updated On: 4/16/07 at 06:02 PM

#38

re: Nudity on stage

Posted: 4/16/07 at 6:03pm

Yankee, either you are straight or a lesbian.

I'm with Betty on this - I don't want to see any V-Jay-Jays on stage.

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#39

re: Nudity on stage

Posted: 4/16/07 at 6:05pm

"As for me, I find nudity to be fine unless it makes for an awkward moment that has nothing to do with the story and doesn't make sense being there. Sometimes nudity is done just to elicit a reaction and for no other reason but that I that is when I think it just pulls the scene down."

I completely agree with you actually!

"Yankee, either you are straight or a lesbian."

The former.

#40

re: Nudity on stage

Posted: 4/16/07 at 6:06pm

Thanks for the clarification. I won't hold it against you.

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#41

re: Nudity on stage

Posted: 4/16/07 at 6:18pm

Marin Mazzie was topless in PASSION, Rosamund was nude in THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM, someone was topless, and pathetic (Sally Murphy, maybe?) in THE WILD PARTY.

#42

re: Nudity on stage

Posted: 4/16/07 at 6:44pm

Sally Murphy was topless in THE WILD PARTY and so was Toni Collette.

#43

re: Nudity on stage

Posted: 4/16/07 at 6:48pm

Darn, now ya'll are getting me a-wishing that I saw DRACULA

#44

re: Nudity on stage

Posted: 4/16/07 at 7:01pm

"Thanks for the clarification. I won't hold it against you."

Haha no problem. I wouldn't hold anything against you either...

#45

re: Nudity on stage

Posted: 4/16/07 at 8:31pm

Damn my extreme side orchestra seating for Dracula!!

Yes that comes from a straight man.

#46

re: Nudity on stage

Posted: 4/16/07 at 8:36pm

The place is just crawling with straight people tonight!

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#47

re: Nudity on stage

Posted: 4/16/07 at 8:47pm

straight guys with Elphi avatars. I don't believe it for one second...

#48

re: Nudity on stage

Posted: 4/16/07 at 8:53pm

Someone mentioned nudity in PASSION...information?

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#49

re: Nudity on stage

Posted: 4/17/07 at 4:05am

Kelli naked in Dracula was the best thing about that show.. and totally the best thing about sitting in the front row... she looked awesome...

Okay.. the affect that sucked her robe thing into the ground when she walked across was really cool.

#50

re: Nudity on stage

Posted: 4/17/07 at 7:21am

I swear when I saw PASSION, both Jere Shea and Marin Mazzie did full frontal, backal, and sidal when they got out of the bed.

Back in the late 1980's, Roundabout's PRIVATES ON PARADE featured full frontal Donna Murphy, as well as a locker room/shower scene involving full frontal John Curry (the late figure skating champ) and rear shots of Edward Hibbert, the ubiquitous Greg Jbara, and a few other I can't recall.

Updated On: 4/17/07 at 07:21 AM