Q about Naked Boys Singing — Page 2
#27
Posted: 8/30/09 at 4:39pm
Many people feel that way. However the producers made their decision. That's the long and the short of it.
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Updated On: 8/30/09 at 04:39 PM
#28
Posted: 8/30/09 at 4:51pm
As long as it is of average length. Too long can be hard to sit on...through, too hard to sit through.
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#29
Posted: 8/30/09 at 6:25pm
If you ask me, it's "a little bris of this, a little bris of that". Go figure.
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#30
Posted: 8/30/09 at 6:45pm
As long as Alan Cumming is not in it, that should be fine.
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#31
Posted: 8/30/09 at 7:30pm
alan Cummings isn't circumcised?
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#32
Posted: 8/30/09 at 8:04pm
I don't think we've ever escorted anyone out for being too young.
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#33
Posted: 8/30/09 at 8:14pm
Well in all honesty, it's not pornographic or explicit. It's just nudity and a some risque content equivalent to a PG-13. It's just penises.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
#34
Posted: 8/30/09 at 8:28pm
Just PG-13? But you said that one of the guys busts on you during the audience participation! That sounds frankly X-rated.
#35
Posted: 8/30/09 at 8:35pm
He VERBALLY busts on me.
Here's what usually happens:
George talks to the audience and says if anyone thinks his job is easy, they should come up and do it.
I usually leap out of my seat unbuttoning my shirt.
Before I reach the stage George tells me to go back to my seat because my body isn't good enough to show off in public.
I tell him that I've been told I have the body of a god.
George responds, "Yeah, Buddah!"
He also comments about the article I wrote about the show for BWW.
Now, that's what I meant by "busting".
Actually, the NBS cast is forbidden by contract to make physical contact with audience members--or to appear naked anywhere in the theater other than the stage.
Here's what usually happens:
George talks to the audience and says if anyone thinks his job is easy, they should come up and do it.
I usually leap out of my seat unbuttoning my shirt.
Before I reach the stage George tells me to go back to my seat because my body isn't good enough to show off in public.
I tell him that I've been told I have the body of a god.
George responds, "Yeah, Buddah!"
He also comments about the article I wrote about the show for BWW.
Now, that's what I meant by "busting".
Actually, the NBS cast is forbidden by contract to make physical contact with audience members--or to appear naked anywhere in the theater other than the stage.
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#37
Posted: 8/30/09 at 8:37pm
The show has its nudity, butthe humor is of the calibre of WILL AND GRACE; maybe tamer.
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#38
Posted: 8/30/09 at 9:46pm
As the show starts off with the cast fully clothed, everything went well. Then as the guys disrobed, the father covered his son's eyes with the Playbill and rushed him out of the theater.
Not sure which show you're talking about, but the cast is completely naked from the moment the lights come up on them.
Fun story you made up there, though, Dollypop.
Not sure which show you're talking about, but the cast is completely naked from the moment the lights come up on them.
Fun story you made up there, though, Dollypop.
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"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#39
Posted: 8/30/09 at 9:50pm
Maybe they're naked now, but there was something with the cast wearing robes and a guy "wandered" into the theater thinking he was audtioning for another show. The fully clothed guy performs his part in the aisle.
The song has some sort of mystical, religious quality to it.
You do know that the show has been altered since it moved to New World Stages, don't you?
The song has some sort of mystical, religious quality to it.
You do know that the show has been altered since it moved to New World Stages, don't you?
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#40
Posted: 8/30/09 at 9:52pm
Just checked the CD, the song is called "Gratuitous Nudit" and it started with the cast wearing robes.
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#41
Posted: 8/30/09 at 10:03pm
It is possible they change up the opening. Ive seen it where someone walked in thinking it was Altars Boys and they make him get naked and join the show, and where some guy took a photo and they made him get naked and join the show. It is possible that they change up the opening.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
#42
Posted: 8/30/09 at 10:03pm
A friend of mine just PM'd to explain that they've changed the opening several times in the course of the show's lengthy run.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
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#43
Posted: 8/30/09 at 10:20pm
When I saw it, Elphaba crashed through the ceiling on her cherry picker and the cast made her get undressed and it was Taye Diggs in drag and then they made him be in the show.
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#44
Posted: 8/30/09 at 10:25pm
Namo, I just spit water.....hahahaha....
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
#45
Posted: 8/30/09 at 10:27pm
We've already seen Taye Diggs naked. Let's get someone new.
#46
Posted: 8/30/09 at 10:28pm
^
Arthur Laurents?
Arthur Laurents?
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#47
Posted: 8/30/09 at 10:31pm
Maybe Gavin Creel can go full monty.....sigh
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
#48
Posted: 8/30/09 at 10:32pm
He would. Apparently he's very proud of his penis.
#49
Posted: 8/30/09 at 10:38pm
Oh really... :)
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
#50
Posted: 8/31/09 at 9:50am
Dollypop, I have seen the show since back when it originally opened at The Actors' Playhouse, through its transfer Theatre Four, and now at New World Stages.
The show has ALWAYS opened with seven guys on stage completely naked. Yes, halfway through the opening number -- AFTER the point in your story when this fictional father and son would have already fled the theatre -- a clothed actor enters the theatre and jumps up on stage to remove his clothes, but that doesn't fly with the story you made up.
The only CHANGES that has happened since the show opened at the Actors' Playhouse, besides changing theatres twice, has been the removal of the intermission, and the cutting of the song "Kris, Look What You've Missed," in addition to the performance schedule being changed from eight performances a week down to two.
I especially liked how you chose a specific ethnicity -- "Asian" -- for your fictional father and son audience members to try to represent how they might not have understood the show's title.
The show has ALWAYS opened with seven guys on stage completely naked. Yes, halfway through the opening number -- AFTER the point in your story when this fictional father and son would have already fled the theatre -- a clothed actor enters the theatre and jumps up on stage to remove his clothes, but that doesn't fly with the story you made up.
The only CHANGES that has happened since the show opened at the Actors' Playhouse, besides changing theatres twice, has been the removal of the intermission, and the cutting of the song "Kris, Look What You've Missed," in addition to the performance schedule being changed from eight performances a week down to two.
I especially liked how you chose a specific ethnicity -- "Asian" -- for your fictional father and son audience members to try to represent how they might not have understood the show's title.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
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