The eight crooners of New York mainstay Naked Boys Singing! are permanently putting on their clothes. Producers of the 12-year-old musical — off-Broadway’s second longest-running show after the fully-clothed Fantasticks, and certainly its oldest all-nude, all-male musical review — announced today that the show will close at the end of the month after 3,069 performances.
The 15-song review — created by Robert Schrock and penned by a team of 12 writers, including Emmy-winning patter expert Bruce Vilanch — opened in 1999 and has not been without its share of controversy (a 2005 Milwaukee production was closed down early by police) or its boatloads of rabid fans. (Who...
The 15-song review — created by Robert Schrock and penned by a team of 12 writers, including Emmy-winning patter expert Bruce Vilanch — opened in 1999 and has not been without its share of controversy (a 2005 Milwaukee production was closed down early by police) or its boatloads of rabid fans. (Who...
- 1/3/2012
- by Aubry D'Arminio
- EW.com - PopWatch
NEW YORK -- In the grand tradition of Dreamgirls and Funny Girl, the long-running off-Broadway musical Naked Boys Singing! is coming to the big screen as a full-length feature from Funny Boy Films.
The bare posteriors of the 10-member cast are being preserved for posterity at Los Angeles' Hayworth Theatre, where shooting is set to be completed this week. The nudity-filled feature will be accompanied by a behind-the-scenes documentary, which will be released as a separate DVD or as a bonus DVD feature.
Robert Schrock, director of the original production, is helming the 16-song review, with Troy Christian handling the feature's digital video direction and choreography. The gay-themed project is produced by Kirkland Tibbels, who took on similar duties bringing David Drake's one-man show "The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me" to the screen in 1999.
Since opening at L.A.'s Celebration Theatre in 1998 and moving to its current New York run the following year, "Naked Boys Singing!" has played in more than 20 countries and toured theaters around the country -- and not without controversy.
The bare posteriors of the 10-member cast are being preserved for posterity at Los Angeles' Hayworth Theatre, where shooting is set to be completed this week. The nudity-filled feature will be accompanied by a behind-the-scenes documentary, which will be released as a separate DVD or as a bonus DVD feature.
Robert Schrock, director of the original production, is helming the 16-song review, with Troy Christian handling the feature's digital video direction and choreography. The gay-themed project is produced by Kirkland Tibbels, who took on similar duties bringing David Drake's one-man show "The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me" to the screen in 1999.
Since opening at L.A.'s Celebration Theatre in 1998 and moving to its current New York run the following year, "Naked Boys Singing!" has played in more than 20 countries and toured theaters around the country -- and not without controversy.
- 12/27/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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