#27
Posted: 12/16/14 at 9:14pm
Maxwell Caulfield became a star with full-frontal nudity in ENTERTAINING MR. SLOAN at the Cherry Lane.
I didn't see him in that (though BRAD DAVIS left nothing to the imagination when he replaced Caulfield).
But when Caulfied reprised the role at the Mark Taper Forum in LA, he seemed very self-conscious and concerned with hiding his "naughty bits". So the interview about how relaxed he is with stage nudity strikes me as disengenuous (though MC with just his hands over his junk is still something to see).
I didn't see him in that (though BRAD DAVIS left nothing to the imagination when he replaced Caulfield).
But when Caulfied reprised the role at the Mark Taper Forum in LA, he seemed very self-conscious and concerned with hiding his "naughty bits". So the interview about how relaxed he is with stage nudity strikes me as disengenuous (though MC with just his hands over his junk is still something to see).
#28
Posted: 12/16/14 at 9:15pm
Back in the 60's or 70's there was a Broadway comedy called "You Know I Can't Hear You when the Water is Running." The premise was that a producer and director are trying to get a mainstream actor to go full frontal and he doesn't want to do it. Of course, at that time, there was no such thing as nudity in a mainstream play, and there was, in fact, no nudity in the show.
At the matinee that my parents attended, some lady was so horrified that she stormed out right at the beginning. My parents were as amused by her as by the play.
Audrey
At the matinee that my parents attended, some lady was so horrified that she stormed out right at the beginning. My parents were as amused by her as by the play.
Audrey
Audrey, the Phantom Phanatic, who nonetheless would rather be Jean Valjean, who knew how to make lemonade out of lemons.
#29
Posted: 12/16/14 at 9:17pm
I'll never forget Hair at the Bowl with all that nudity in broad daylight for that 30 some seconds and the reactions from parents during intermission.
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#30
Posted: 12/16/14 at 9:21pm
Kost is partially topless in Cabaret?
I really don't remember that.
A friend of mine went to go see hair with her grandma when she was 7.
Apparently they got up on the seats and helicoptered all over the audience.
I really don't remember that.
A friend of mine went to go see hair with her grandma when she was 7.
Apparently they got up on the seats and helicoptered all over the audience.
#31
Posted: 12/16/14 at 9:27pm
"Kost is partially topless in Cabaret?
I really don't remember that."
There was when I saw it last month. When Kost is introducing herself to Cliff, she takes her hand off of her bath-robe-ish thing and one side falls down and her breast is visible for several seconds.
I really don't remember that."
There was when I saw it last month. When Kost is introducing herself to Cliff, she takes her hand off of her bath-robe-ish thing and one side falls down and her breast is visible for several seconds.
#32
Posted: 12/16/14 at 9:37pm
When Julia Roberts was asked why she doesn't do nude scenes she said because she does movies not documentaries. I believe the same rule would apply for any actor on a Broadway stage although unlike Ms. Roberts I doubt few of them would have any say on the matter.
#33
Posted: 12/16/14 at 9:48pm
Wicked has nudity in it. That's why it's so popular. Right? RIGHT?
Men don't even belt.
#34
Posted: 12/17/14 at 12:28am
Not just Sunjata in "Take Me Out." Pretty much everyone was full frontal. There was also a spectacular butt in "Scottsboro Boys."
#35
Posted: 12/17/14 at 12:30am
Jeremy Jordan was nude in the bathtub scene Bonnie & Clyde, though of course they didn't show anything.
#36
Posted: 12/17/14 at 1:40am
I just remembered reading about a play in the late 1960's or early 70's about a guy who kidnapped a woman and tied her, naked, to a chair. The actor playing the woman spent the whole play in the altogether, although she was visible only from the back. I can't remember the play or the cast, except that I think the female actor's name was Sally something-or-other.
Audrey, the Phantom Phanatic, who nonetheless would rather be Jean Valjean, who knew how to make lemonade out of lemons.
#37
Posted: 12/17/14 at 1:56am
Marat/Sade
Oh! Calcutta!
The Changing Room
Abelard & Heloise
Privates on Parade
Women Behind Bars
so many others....
Oh! Calcutta!
The Changing Room
Abelard & Heloise
Privates on Parade
Women Behind Bars
so many others....
#38
Posted: 12/17/14 at 2:09am
In the play "Bug" by Tracy Letts both leads perform completely naked for much of the second act. I'd guess about 15 minutes.
#39
Posted: 12/17/14 at 3:34am
I saw a play in London in 1977 that had brief Topless.
I think it might have been called Sextet?
I think it might have been called Sextet?
#40
Posted: 12/17/14 at 4:10am
Do we mean Broadway or Off-etc? Because certainly nudity was more common off (and off off) Broadway in the 60s and 70s than ever on.
AHLiebross. Pretty sure that was Terrence McNally's 1968 Off-Broadway play Sweet Eros back when he was still firmly in his "experimental" phase. The actress was Sally Kirkland. Wiki claims that it made her the first woman to be fully nude in a "legit" New York stage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Eros
AHLiebross. Pretty sure that was Terrence McNally's 1968 Off-Broadway play Sweet Eros back when he was still firmly in his "experimental" phase. The actress was Sally Kirkland. Wiki claims that it made her the first woman to be fully nude in a "legit" New York stage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Eros
#41
Posted: 12/17/14 at 8:02am
"Not just Sunjata in "Take Me Out." Pretty much everyone was full frontal. "
and to correct the original reference to Take Me Out, this was On Broadway, not Off
and to correct the original reference to Take Me Out, this was On Broadway, not Off
#42
Posted: 12/17/14 at 8:55am
#43
Posted: 12/17/14 at 11:51am
The Graduate
Wit
Wit
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#46
Posted: 12/17/14 at 12:52pm
Kelli O'Hara had a brief, tasteful nude scene emerging from her bath in THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY.
Alan Cumming in MACBETH last year.
Someone asked about HIGH? That was the short-lived play starring Kathleen Turner as an unorthodox nun.
Alan Cumming in MACBETH last year.
Someone asked about HIGH? That was the short-lived play starring Kathleen Turner as an unorthodox nun.
#47
Posted: 12/17/14 at 1:02pm
I don't understand why town halls can't have them on the lawn at this time of year. It's a war on Xmas.
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#48
Posted: 12/17/14 at 1:03pm
Jude Law in INDISCRETIONS
There was a mooning scene in KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN.
There was a mooning scene in KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN.
Just remembering you've had an "and"
When you're back to "or"
Makes the "or" mean more than it did before
#49
Posted: 12/17/14 at 1:17pm
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, at least in the Broadway revival in 2002.
#50
Posted: 12/17/14 at 1:18pm
The ones I've seen...
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
Equus
Take Me Out
Killer Joe
Oh! Calcutta!
HAIR
Naked Boys Singing
Streetcar Named Desire @ New York Theatre Workshop
Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
Equus
Take Me Out
Killer Joe
Oh! Calcutta!
HAIR
Naked Boys Singing
Streetcar Named Desire @ New York Theatre Workshop
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