Naked Boys Singing!

Synopsis

New York's most outrageous musical comedy Naked Boys Singing is back following its triumphant run at the Arts last year. This hilarious revue features 16 original songs, 8 gorgeous guys and no clothes - a winning combination if ever there was one! From the sassy opening number Gratuitous Nudity to the screamingly funny Bliss of a Bris, audiences and critics alike have hailed Naked Boys Singing! a sure-fire crowd-pleaser.

Our Review:

2 November 2001

In the same week that Kiss Me Kate arrived in the West End from Broadway, Naked Boys Singing has shamelessly followed it from off-Broadway, where it has also been running for the last two years.

This over-priced, under-dressed show (top price is £25, for a show that runs barely an hour and therefore, at least, doesn't outstay its welcome), has to be a contender for the truth-in-advertising award. In a show conceived by Robert Schrock that has taken him and no less than 12 other writers to put together, a cast of seven variously endowed talents zip through a cabaret-style revue of 15 brisk numbers, almost all of which are performed in the buff.

The opening song, with its promise of a show that offers no prudity or crudity just "Gratuitous Nudity" and likewise lives up to its title, sets the pace. Subsequent songs, most of them inevitably in comic vein, variously celebrate the joys of offering nude cleaning for a living and being a per...

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Latest User Review

USER: Whatsonstage.com - 22 December 2001:

I too saw it in New York and all I can say is you are lucky that it was trimmed. It was so bad I wished I had gotten out in an hour. Dull songs, dull men, very poor amateur style performances. ...

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