Naked Boys Singing!
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Setting | New York City |
Premiere | July 22, 1999: The Actors' Playhouse |
Productions | 1999 Off-Broadway |
Naked Boys Singing! is a traditional American Vaudeville-style musical revue, with book and direction by , musical direction by and choreography by Jeffry Denman, that features eight actors who sing and dance naked. The show was produced by , , Hugh Hayes, and .
This campy musical comedy premiered at the Celebration Theatre in West Hollywood, California, on March 28, 1998.[1] It opened off-Broadway on July 22, 1999, at the Actors' Playhouse in New York City.[2] The show transferred to Theatre Four in March 2004, and again in 2005 to New World Stages Stage Four, until it closed on January 28, 2012.[3]
Shortly after the original off-Broadway closed, Producer/Directors Tom and Michael D'Angora decided to transfer their smash hit Provincetown adaption of Naked Boys Singing! to the off-Broadway stage. The official off-Broadway revival opened at Theatre Row's Kirk Theatre on April 5, 2012, and is still enjoying a healthy run today.
Synopsis[]
The show has no plot; it contains 15 songs, about various issues, such as gay life, male nudity, coming out, circumcision and love.
Musical numbers[]
# | Title |
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1 | "Gratuitous Nudity" |
2 | "The Naked Maid" |
3 | "The Bliss of a Bris" |
4 | "Window to Window" |
5 | "Fight the Urge" |
6 | "Robert Mitchum" |
7 | "Jack's Song (I Beat My Meat)" |
8 | "Members Only" |
9 | "Perky Little Porn Star" |
10 | "Nothin' But the Radio On" |
11 | "Kris, Look What You've Missed" |
12 | "Muscle Addiction" |
13 | "The Entertainer" |
14 | "Window to Window (reprise)" |
15 | "Window to the Soul" |
16 | "Finale" |
17 | "Naked Boys Singing!" |
Cast[]
Role | Opening night cast | Replacements |
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Glenn | Glenn Seven Allen | , , |
Jon | , | |
Tim | , , Ryan Lowe | |
Tom | ||
Daniel | Daniel C. Levine | |
Sean | Billy Briggs, , , | |
Adam | , Patrick Boyd | |
Trance | Stephen Alexander, , Eric Potter, |
- Replacements who performed the "Radio" number: Charles Duff
- Replacements who performed the "Porn Star" number:
- Replacements who performed the "Robert Mitchum" number: Frank Galgano,
- Replacements who performed "The Entertainer" number:
- Replacements who performed "The Naked Maid" number: , , ,
- Replacements who performed the "Window" number: ,
- Replacements who performed the "Bris" number: , Chris Layton,
- Replacements who performed the "Muscle" number: ,
- Understudies: , , Phil Simmons
Film adaptation[]
Naked Boys Singing! | |
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Directed by |
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Written by |
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Produced by | Kirkland Tibbels |
Starring |
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Edited by |
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Music by | Nic. tenBroek |
Distributed by | TLA Releasing |
Release dates | Fall, 2007 |
Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
The show was adapted into a film of the same name, which was released in 2007.[4]
Cast and songs[]
- Kevin Alexander Stea - Naked Maid
- Joe Souza - Bliss of a Bris
- Phong Truong (also called Ethan Le Phong) - Window to the Soul
- Jason Currie - Entertainer
- Joseph Keane - Perky Little Porn Star
- Anthony Manough - Muscle Addiction
- Andrew Blake Ames - Jack's Song
- Vincent Zamora - Window to Window
- Jaymes Hodges - Nothin' but the Radio On
- Salvatore Vassallo - Conductor
Awards and nominations[]
- 2010 Broadway.com Audience Award Nomination - Favorite Long-Running Off-Broadway Show
- Off-Broadway Alliance Nomination - Best Long-Running Show
External links[]
- Naked Boys Singing! at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
- Naked Boys Singing! at IMDb
- Naked Boys Singing! at AllMovie
- Rotten tomatoes: Naked Boys Singing
References[]
- ^ Manus, Willard (28 March 1998). "Naked Boys Singing! at L.A.'s Celebration Theatre, Mar. 28". Playbill. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
- ^ Jones, Ken (22 July 2020). "When Naked Boys Singing! First Appeared Off-Broadway". Playbill. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
- ^ Blank, Matthew (30 January 2012). "Naked Boys Singing!, the 15-song celebration of the male form, played its final performance Off-Broadway at New World Stages Jan. 28 at 8 PM". Playbill. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
- ^ Lyons, Luisa (April 2017). "Naked Boys Singing!". Filmed Live Musicals. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
- English-language films
- 1999 musicals
- Off-Broadway musicals
- Original musicals
- Nudity in theatre and dance
- LGBT-related musicals
- American plays adapted into films