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OH! CALCUTTA! (1969) Live Recording of Controversial Nudie Play
OH! CALCUTTA! (1969) Live Recording of Controversial Nudie Play
3565DVD
 

A 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 Prize cartoonist (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

 
$19.95
 
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