Q about Naked Boys Singing- Page 2
Q about Naked Boys Singing
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
re: Q about Naked Boys Singing#26
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.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
re: Q about Naked Boys Singing#27
Posted: 8/30/09 at 4:51pmAs long as it is of average length. Too long can be hard to sit on...through, too hard to sit through.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
re: Q about Naked Boys Singing#28
Posted: 8/30/09 at 6:25pmIf you ask me, it's "a little bris of this, a little bris of that". Go figure.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
re: Q about Naked Boys Singing#29
Posted: 8/30/09 at 6:45pmAs long as Alan Cumming is not in it, that should be fine.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
re: Q about Naked Boys Singing#30
Posted: 8/30/09 at 7:30pmalan Cummings isn't circumcised?
re: Q about Naked Boys Singing#31
Posted: 8/30/09 at 8:04pmI don't think we've ever escorted anyone out for being too young.
re: Q about Naked Boys Singing#32
Posted: 8/30/09 at 8:14pmWell 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.
re: Q about Naked Boys Singing#33
Posted: 8/30/09 at 8:28pmJust PG-13? But you said that one of the guys busts on you during the audience participation! That sounds frankly X-rated.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
re: Q about Naked Boys Singing#34
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.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
re: Q about Naked Boys Singing#36
Posted: 8/30/09 at 8:37pmThe show has its nudity, butthe humor is of the calibre of WILL AND GRACE; maybe tamer.
re: Q about Naked Boys Singing#37
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.
-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)
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
re: Q about Naked Boys Singing#38
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?
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
re: Q about Naked Boys Singing#39
Posted: 8/30/09 at 9:52pmJust checked the CD, the song is called "Gratuitous Nudit" and it started with the cast wearing robes.
re: Q about Naked Boys Singing#40
Posted: 8/30/09 at 10:03pmIt 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.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
re: Q about Naked Boys Singing#41
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.
re: Q about Naked Boys Singing#42
Posted: 8/30/09 at 10:20pmWhen 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.
re: Q about Naked Boys Singing#43
Posted: 8/30/09 at 10:25pmNamo, I just spit water.....hahahaha....
re: Q about Naked Boys Singing#44
Posted: 8/30/09 at 10:27pmWe've already seen Taye Diggs naked. Let's get someone new.
re: Q about Naked Boys Singing#45
Posted: 8/30/09 at 10:28pm
^
Arthur Laurents?
-Danmeg's 10 year old son.
re: Q about Naked Boys Singing#46
Posted: 8/30/09 at 10:31pmMaybe Gavin Creel can go full monty.....sigh
re: Q about Naked Boys Singing#47
Posted: 8/30/09 at 10:32pmHe would. Apparently he's very proud of his penis.
re: Q about Naked Boys Singing#48
Posted: 8/30/09 at 10:38pmOh really... :)
re: Q about Naked Boys Singing#49
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.
-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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