OH! CALCUTTA! (1969) Live Recording of Controversial Nudie Play
3565DVD
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Live Recording of the Controversial 1969 Play
director: Jacques Levy
writers:
Samuel Beckett · Robert Benton · Sam Shepard · John Lennon · Jules Feiffer
Dan Greenburg · Jacques Levy · Leonard Melfi · David Newman
Margo Sappington · Clovis Trouille · Kenneth Tynan · Sherman Yellen
starring: Bill Macy · Raina Barrett · Mark Dempsey · Michell McGuire
· Samantha Harper
'Oh
Calcutta' opened off-Broadway at the Edson in 1969. This live recording
is an exact capture of that controversial moment in time, the acceptance
of full nudity in the Performing Arts. Here is a Sketch Comedy Review
with musical interludes. All the skits deal with sex, most feature performers
in the nude or various stages of undress.
Obviously, the play had a difficult time with bluenose critics, government
censors and members of the "outraged public," but this project
had a secret weapon that made it a darling of the intellectual set.
Each of the
contributors - the actual writers of the skits - were well-known and
respected in the entertainment community. These contributors ranged
from a high drama playwright (Samuel Beckett) to pop star royalty
(John Lennon), from a Pulitzer Prizecartoonist (Jules
Feiffer) to an Academy Award-Winning Actor/Writer (Sam Shepard),
from a Tony-Winner Dancer/Choreographer (Margo Sappinton) to
a multiple Oscar-winning scriptwriter/director (Robert Benton).
Each wrote at least one of the sequences [the producers never revealed
who wrote what]. A critic at the New York Post said: "Even though
these pillars of Pop Culture Entertainment have written obvious smut,
no one can rightfully deny
the exceptional pedigree here."
An American stage
production in English Language
fully uncut 122 minutes, encoded for ALL REGION NTSC,
playable on any American machine.
Explicit Male and
Female Full Frontal Nudity/Sexual Situations
for Adult Audiences
