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broadway show

posted 17 years ago by wildflower12
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I know they have made this into a theater show, but what do they do at the end of the show? Do they really go Full Monty?

[–] mattbrenii 17 years ago

My mom saw it and said that they really do haha

[–] broadwaybelle20 17 years ago

Hahaha they do. My choir teacher was in it. You can imagine what thet was like. scarred for life. They have police hats, and take off the thongs, then turn and cover themselves with the hats. When they turn back around, they have the hats in front. then at the end, right when they pull the hats out of the way, a really bright light shows breifly, and then blackout. If you look close you can see. Yes, seeing my favorite teacher nude was mortifying. While he was stripping he was looking at my friends and I, making eyes. It was one of the funniest things I'd ever seen.

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[–] wildflower12 17 years ago

Oh my word! LOL!!!! I cannot think of anything more awkward than that.

[–] abens_98 17 years ago

Depends on who is producing it and what they think their audience can handle. On Broadway is was done by using backlighting to blind the audience at the last moment, so even though the actors took it all off, the theory was that the audience would not be able to see it.

[–] solaris5433 17 years ago

I'm in the musical version of the show right now in Madison. It's just like you guys were saying. We are naked, but cover ourselves with our hats. Then, there is a blackout the same time we remove our hats.

It's a great show. :)

[–] alywin 15 years ago

Sure do (at least, the UK one does). I think I must have seen it 4 times at various places. And yes, the guys are suddenly backlit, so in silhouette. It doesn't always disguise ... absolutely everything.

But yes, it really is a great musical, even if you won't go away humming the songs after one viewing.

[–] bluestocking-7 15 years ago

I saw it twice with the original Broadway cast.

In the movie, after the pants, they had only briefs left.

In the Broadway version, after the pants, they still have another layer of striptease - white flimsy baggy shorts and underneath, the skimpy briefs in red.

At some point in the choreography, I sensed "omg, they're really going to take it off." But as soon as they remove the briefs, the lights were turned off (less than a minute I think). It's different in the movie when they took off their briefs and they still danced with their hats.

The stage then lit up with the words "THE FULL MONTY" from the backstage and the 6 guys came out in white bathrobes to take a bow. There's really no need to see anything because the stage version was still marketed as a family show.

P.S. But with regards to male nudity, I didn't realize till I saw the play "Take Me Out" on Broadway that full frontal (and lots of it for extended time) could be done on stage. In the movies, that is straight to NC-17.

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