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Originally Posted by KimL1983
Kim here, new member, longtime lurker thanks to crazy friends who introduced me to this site. (I need new friends. LOL). So this is fitting to this topic. Anyone familiar with the musical "Hair"? I was curious about what most colleges and community theaters do with the nudity at the end of the first act. It only lasts about a minute but it’s kinda important to the production. I may be involved with a community theatre production soon, so I want to find out what the current trend is. I think they are gonna decide to not do the nude scene.
However, I have an experience with the musical from about 10 years ago, when I was in a college production of it, and that did feature the nude scene. I was cast before we all knew if the nudity would get approved by the school. We honestly thought it wouldn’t so we were surprised when we were told after casting that the nude scene would be in. We were excited but I know for one I was nervous. I was very self-conscious about my looks back then, especially my chest, or total lack of one. I eventually got over that and it was a really freeing experience, so I have good memories. But the main memory I have from that production – and the thing everybody else remembers to – is one of the actors in the show. He was kind of a dorky freshman at the time and I didn’t know him. I only talked to him a few times during rehersals but I remember when they said we’d do the nude scene, he was nervous when all the other guys were like, yeah, this’ll be crazy and fun. We soon found out why he was nervus when we had our first dress rehearsal for the nude scene. Let’s just say that to this day I’ve never seen a larger penis ever – not in real life, not in porn, not in a zoo. That may sound like a joke but its not. It was so freakish that no one really knew what to say, and I know the director actually thought of either cancelling the plans to do the scene nude, or at least have him not appear in it. But because of the staging, there was no way for him to not be in the scene. It was either do the scene clothed for everyone or kick him out of the production. So it was decided to go ahead with it but have the actor stay toward the back if possible. That didn’t quite work so even though that scene is brief, it totally upstaged everything and even years later is a story that people still tel around campus apparently.  |
Yeah, I remember doing that play but was really nervous about doing the nude scene, for me I get camera or stage shy and I shrivelled up with fear, didn't help that I was standing next to a guy like the one you describe
He turned to me during the scene and whispered "don't worry, it's personality that counts"
