Oh Calcutta on Broadway

It still amazes me that Bill "Maude" Macy was one of the original actors in it.

Bill Macy (the guy who was Maude's husband) was part of the original case.. go figure..

Is it true that Bill Macy, the guy who played Maude's husband, was in the original cast?

The cast was not “entirely nude for most of play”. There were two nude dances, and there was minor nudity in the scenes.

It was an anthology of short plays, written by a diverse group of people from Samuel Beckett to John Lennon, interspersed with songs and dances.

It was the revival that ran so long and is #6 on the longest running Broadway musicals of all time. The original production did okay, but not great.

And it is a huge stinking turd of a show.

It was a bawdy, musical comedy. No real solid storyline if I remember correctly, just various skits.

It was very successful. The original ran for two years and the revival ran even longer for 13 years.

Who is that gorgeous man at the far right of the pic?

Nude women mixed in together with nude men. That is just not right.

The man on the far right is Mark Dempsey.

I believe it's called "a revue". It's a strange format (unrelated skits and musical numbers) that was popular in the first part of the 20th Century.

There were Broadway revues called things like NEW FACES OF 1956, etc. It's doubtful they'll be revived very often.

These were back in the day when Broadway theater tickets weren't so incredibly expensive, and there was a wider spectrum of shows (some very lightweight).

The man on the far left is Leon Russom.

It helped open the door for nudity (and for some, even simulated sex) in plays. Most of those ran on off and off off Broadway though. There were some than had various amounts of gay content or subtext, such as Let My People Come and Che!, which both ran for a while.

Were any of the male cast gay?

R4, can you send me your address? I'd like to invite you to my next party.

Great fun. I saw it in SF and DC.

Any nice big cocks?

George Welbes looked great in the original.

There's a movie version.

Alan Rachins, of LA Law and Dharma and Greg, was in the original Broadway cast (but not the movie.)

I used to baby sit for a couple. Hidden in a drawer was a pictorial book of Oh Calcutta. I would jack off, and put the book back into it's secret spot in their dresser. I wonder if they ever noticed?

Oh! Calcutta! at 50. An interesting retrospective.

I heard that Bill Macy (Maude) was in the original cast! Any truth to this?

Bill Macy infamously, sharted on stage. Everyone politely stepped around The poo.

Is the guy on the end at the far right the same guy from the guiding lights?

I watched the video and it was dead boring. But at least the guys had hairy bushes.

Better Bill Macy than William Macy!

God'll get you for that!

Bill Macy is 97 (see article at R19) and was in the original production.

[quote]Macy: The nudity didn’t bother me. I’m from Brooklyn... I’m 97 years old. I go out into the street every day and I accost strangers. I talk to them about “Oh! Calcutta!” I don’t wait for an introduction. I just walk up.

Was it a firm stool, or a loose runny stool?