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Originally Posted by Lucianado
I can believe nudity was genuinely discussed as a possibility very early in planning the production, but the poster then got wind of it and assumed it would definitely be happening, as opposed to being something that would almost certainly get struck out at the next meeting. I guess with a lot of productions of Hair, early on there's some talk of "wouldn't it be ker-azy if we actually did the nude scene?", and then in most cases it ends up either omitted completely or heavily watered down.
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When I was in college, there was supposed to be a play that was just written/just won awards, and our school was shocked that it was awarded to put on the play, as small of a school as it was and not known to be a theatre school.
Anyway, the entire second act was supposed to be done completely nude, and in context it made sense, but the person who donated a bunch of money to put their name on the theatre got wind of it and made a huge stink about it in town. So, the entire second act was done in skin-toned bodysuits.
The people who know theatre were so upset that our school did it this way. It was a huge letdown.
Now our blackbox experimental theatre, on the other hand, that had some crazy stuff including a masturbation scene in one play and everything. Those shows would only run for three or four nights, though, and I was already doing pro music gigs at that point, so I was never able to attend any of them.
