College theatrical productions should always feature male nudity

I tried out for Equus but didn’t get the part. I was prepared to show dong for art.

Oh Calcutta!

In college, I was cast in the title role of Equus. I was specifically told to keep my clothes on.

I remember reading that Zach Gilford from Friday Night Lights played Alan Strang when he was in college. I would have liked to have seen that.

Lots of college productions don't include the nudity for Equus. It is pretty easy to eliminate. They cut the nude scene in my college production of Hair. I didn't even know where it went until I saw the last Broadway revival. (it was totally tacked on and not part of the plot in the least. What a gimmick.)

I’d love to see a college production of Take Me Out.

I saw Take Me Out in a local production, and because of a limited pool of talent and limited willingness to be publicly naked in a relatively small city, the men were not much to look at -- they certainly were not baseball hunks. It was embarrassing. It also made me wonder -- this show was performed on Broadway? Did people just buy tickets so they could see naked men? Average-looking guys aside, It was not that good of a show.

There wasn’t anyone in my college theater department who needed to be nude. They did West Side Story one year and the Sharks/Jets chorus boys were the nanciest bunch of theater queens you could imagine.

Even better... a High School production of "Take Me Out"....!

So few replies mean there have been very few such productions.

I've seen community theater productions of "Hair" where they cut or severely restricted/modified the nudity. I'm going to another one next month--I'll be interested to see what they do with it.

We did FOLLIES.

I sang " In Buddys Thighs."

I saw Andrew Sullivan, of all people, play Alan in a college production of EQUUS at Harvard (where he was a graduate student and I was an undergraduate).

I remember he had a nice if unremarkable body at the time, but I do not remember his dick at all.

He was very impressive in the part, but then he played both Hamlet and Ferdinand in THE TEMPEST in other college productions exactly the same way.

We did BENT at my theatre school.....one very well hung actor was naked the entire production. We also did Hair, I've never seen so much cock and tits flopping around ..it was awesome!

Seeing Marissa Jaret Winokur nude in "Hair" (professional production - not college) turned me gay.

I can't imagine why a college would do Take Me Out, unless they're located in The Castro or Palm Springs.

I saw Daniel Radcliff in Equus. And four or five years later sat next to him in a restaurant.

The men in Take Me Out on Broadway we're attractive with great bodies

I had a crush on a pretty blond boy theatre major in college but he wasn't into me. He had a hot cock too because I would see him and it cruising in one of the gym steam rooms. I went to see him in Bent, and I was perving on his beauty through the whole sad story.

Paul Rudnick’s The New Century would be an excellent choice for a college show. There’s a great full frontal part for an attractive young himbo.

R13 are you talking about Andrew Sullivan?

Our local university's production of Midsummer Night's Dream added a whole lot of full male nudity. Oberon was an adequate actor, but had a stunning body and dick that would project to the back balcony. All of the male fairies were naked, and all well-gifted. I'll bet the auditions were intersting.

Years ago, when I attended that school, I saw a ridiculously pretentious original production for which the set was a bunch of video screens showing various graphic shots (including close-ups) of the director jacking off. With cum-shots.

I took an acting class where one of our assignments was to undress in a group to overcome the fear of being nude onstage. I was in college at the time, but this was a class that I took at a method acting school, not at the university.

Theatre started to die back in the 1950s.

"After Dark" magazine advocated for nudity on stage back in the 1980s because they knew theatre would die without the Gays (and the jews).

Theatre is pretty much dead throughout most of the nation so I only go now unless there is a chance of erotic stimulation.

In three years of grad school I had experienced several straight male actor friends stripping naked for shows.

It's quite embarrassing. (for me - they don't care)

R24, Mary!

R21, damn... wish I was there for THAT.

R21 ... yes, your brief account is making my mind ferment with wild imaginings.

Can you give us more details?

My high school did Equus, with nudity. Two boys were up for Alan and they had to go with the 18-year-old instead of the 16-year-old.

[quote] [R13] are you talking about Andrew Sullivan?

No, Rose: I was talking about Rihanna, whom I just happened to refer to as "Andrew Sullivan."

R21 here. Sorry for my delayed response. The nudity in the recent Midsummer Night's Dream was actually effective in support of the production with the other stylistic choices they made. It was probably the best university Shakespere I've seen, and not just because of all the dick-swinging eye-candy. That somehow felt integral and natural, and connected to a primalness of the "deep forest." And also titillating, of course.

More salaciously, Oberon was a .black-haired, olive-skinned stud, tall with a naturally well-developed athletic body, with a great body-hair pattern defining his pecs and framing that proscenium-scaled cock. He was also a decade or so older than his entourage of naked fairies, who were all 19 to 22 year-old smooth blond twinks. Allegedly, that entourage were all straight, or claiming so anyway, and all good-naturedly completing to see who could cock-tease the gay director to the greatest heights of ... inspiration. I'd like to have been at those cast parties.

As far as that old original production with the director masturbating on video screens behind the action, sorry, but that was about as unerotic as it could be, given it involved a hard, spurting cock. He was not someone anyone would fantasize about, and he produced the footage to emphasize the grotesqueness of the experience . There was a sort of hypnotic, rhythmic monstrosity going on behind the excretial excesses happening onstage. Those included, during a cum-shot montage on the screens, his obese hag wearing a rubber mask and slashed black plastic garbage bags writhing around onstage with her tits squeezed out through the slashed plastic.

All things considered, the director jacking off over his own pretentious crap was probably both the worst, and the the most honest theatrical expression I've ever.seen

[quote]Did people just buy tickets so they could see naked men?

[raises hand]

r31, why didn't you go to a male strip club show instead?

Better class of ass on Broadway.

Was that in the US, r28? Frankly I can't imagine any high school foolhardy enough to do full-frontal nudity. Wouldn't the local fraus go ballistic? And how did you see both of the young men naked, may I ask? Were you "auditioning" them?

No high school has ever done Equus with nudity.

Not even back in the '70s.

[quote]Did people just buy tickets so they could see naked men?

Fuck yes.

Add "Killer Joe" and "Take Me Out" to the list of college productions which have already featured the meats.

I'll never forget the live dramatic production of "Dawson's 50-Load Weekend" I saw at Yale.

[quote]I'll never forget the live dramatic production of "Dawson's 50-Load Weekend" I saw at Yale.

"Saw" or "starred in?"