"in his ""Apostolic Tradition"", required men, women and children to remove all clothing, including all foreign objects such as jewellery and hair fastenings. , however argues that complete nudity for baptism candidates (especially women) would not be the norm. He notes that at certain times and in certain places candidates may have been totally naked at the point of baptism, but the Jewish taboo of female nakedness would have mitigated widespread practice of naked baptism. Later Christian attitudes to nudity became more restrictive, and baptisms were segregated by sex and then later were usually performed with clothed participants. Some of"
"love as he seeks to force the woman to understand him – and, ultimately, to submit to him. ""Sweet Eros"" caused a sensation when it first opened in New York because its female star, Sally Kirkland, was nude for nearly the entire length of the play, which lasts approximately 45 minutes. Because of this play, Kirkland has claimed to be the first actress to perform completely naked in legitimate New York theatre, but this claim is undercut by the fact that the rock musical ""Hair"", with its notorious group nude scene, had opened on Broadway seven months earlier. According to"
"an entirely new style of the explicitly nude Broadway musical. The director and actors created a unique new Broadway musical style and play, maintaining popularity over 40 years later. This was the first widely popular all-nude musical. The performance was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1975 for Best Original Cast Album. Susanna was a pop singer known under the stage name of Geneveve, in 1966 releasing the songs, ""Just a whisper"",""Summer days"",""Once"" and 1967 ""That Can't Be Bad"",""I Love Him, I Need Him"". Her songs got good airplay on English radio stations as well as pirate Radio 270. She"
"Styled ""The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical,"" the anti-war free-love hippie-themed, nude-scened ""Hair"" premiered in 1967 as the first production staged at The Public Theater. It moved to Broadway in October 1968. ""Your Own Thing"" also opened in 1968 and featured a gender-switching version of William Shakespeare's ""Twelfth Night"". However, the first musical to hint at what was to come had been the final edition of the Ziegfeld Follies in 1957. This production featured one rock and roll number, ""The Juvenile Delinquent"". The song was performed by fifty-year-old Billy De Wolfe. This was followed by another precursor to the rock musical,"
"virtually walks away with the show as her bemused mother."" Barefoot in the Park Barefoot in the Park is a romantic comedy by Neil Simon. The play premiered on Broadway in 1963, and starred Robert Redford and Elizabeth Ashley. The play was made into a film in 1967, also starring Redford (and Jane Fonda). The play opened on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre on October 23, 1963 and closed on June 25, 1967 after 1,530 performances. This was Neil Simon's longest-running hit, and the tenth longest-running non-musical play in Broadway history. Directed by Mike Nichols, the cast starred Elizabeth Ashley"
"became famous for its spectacular special effects and skimpy costumes. It opened on September 12, 1866 at the 3,200-seat Niblo's Garden on Broadway, in New York City, and ran for a record-breaking 474 performances. It was then toured extensively for decades and revived on Broadway in 1870–71, 1871–72 and many more times after that. ""The Black Crook"" is often considered a prototype of the modern musical in that its popular songs and dances are interspersed throughout a unifying play and performed by the actors. A British production titled ""The Black Crook"", which opened at the Alhambra Theatre on December 23,"
"but to the entire world. Notes Bibliography Hair (musical) Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado and music by Galt MacDermot. A product of the hippie counterculture and sexual revolution of the late 1960s, several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement. The musical's profanity, its depiction of the use of illegal drugs, its treatment of sexuality, its irreverence for the American flag, and its nude scene caused much comment and controversy. The musical broke new ground in musical theatre by defining"
"Goldilocks and the Three Bares Goldilocks and The Three Bares is a 1963 nudie-cutie film from the legendary exploitation team of Herschell Gordon Lewis and David F. Friedman. The title has absolutely nothing to do with the famous fable which inspired the title. Appropriately billed as the ""first nudist musical"" (not to be confused with ""The First Nudie Musical"", 1976), it has considerably more depth than their prior attempts at this genre. The film follows the perils of nightclub singer Eddie Livingston (Rex Marlow), as he pursues press agent Alison Edwards (Downe). Livingston's comic foil Tommy Sweetwood is an unsuccessful"
"Lewis turns in surprisingly dull work that doesn't hint at the quite individual style exhibited in many of his other films."" Goldilocks and the Three Bares Goldilocks and The Three Bares is a 1963 nudie-cutie film from the legendary exploitation team of Herschell Gordon Lewis and David F. Friedman. The title has absolutely nothing to do with the famous fable which inspired the title. Appropriately billed as the ""first nudist musical"" (not to be confused with ""The First Nudie Musical"", 1976), it has considerably more depth than their prior attempts at this genre. The film follows the perils of nightclub"
"Barefoot in the Park Barefoot in the Park is a romantic comedy by Neil Simon. The play premiered on Broadway in 1963, and starred Robert Redford and Elizabeth Ashley. The play was made into a film in 1967, also starring Redford (and Jane Fonda). The play opened on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre on October 23, 1963 and closed on June 25, 1967 after 1,530 performances. This was Neil Simon's longest-running hit, and the tenth longest-running non-musical play in Broadway history. Directed by Mike Nichols, the cast starred Elizabeth Ashley (Corie), Robert Redford (Paul), Mildred Natwick (Mrs. Banks), and Kurt"
"effect. He was The Herald in Peter Brook's production of ""Marat/Sade"" in London in 1964; in the New York City transfer he took the lead role of Jean-Paul Marat (and so became the first actor to appear nude on the Broadway stage), a performance he repeated for the 1967 film ""Marat/Sade"". In 1972, he appeared in the musical ""Trelawney"", with which the Bristol Old Vic reopened after its refurbishment. It proved a great success, transferring to London, first to the Sadler's Wells Theatre and later to the Savoy Theatre. Richardson played the hero, Tom Wrench, a small-part player who wants"
"restrictions of civilization and consumerism and a preference for naturalism. Rado remembers that long hair ""was a visible form of awareness in the consciousness expansion. The longer the hair got, the more expansive the mind was. Long hair was shocking, and it was a revolutionary act to grow long hair. It was kind of a flag, really."" The musical caused controversy when it was first staged. The Act I finale was the first time a Broadway show had seen totally naked actors and actresses, and the show was charged with the desecration of the American flag and the use of"
"cast are joined on stage by an ensemble and members of a dance school (Ellie Bailey, Rachael Hackett, Alice Mee and Autumn Wade). 1966 - Maid of the Mountains (Musical) 1967 - The Merry Widow (Musical) 1968 - Summer Song (Musical) 1969 - Quaker Girl (Musical) 1970 - Magyar Melody (Musical) 1971 - Aladdin (Pantomime) 1971 - Finians Rainbow (Musical) 1973 - The Sound of Music (Musical) 1974 - Oaklahoma (Musical) 1975 - Jack and the Beanstalk (Pantomime) 1975 - A Funny Thing (Musical) 1976 - Jorrocks (Musical) 1977 - Mother Goose (Pantomime) 1977 - Chrysanthemum (Musical) 1978 - Humpty"
"pressures of his parents (and conservative America) to serve in Vietnam, compromising his pacifist principles and risking his life. After an off-Broadway debut on October 17, 1967, at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and a subsequent run at the Cheetah nightclub from December 1967 through January 1968, the show opened on Broadway in April 1968 and ran for 1,750 performances. Simultaneous productions in cities across the United States and Europe followed shortly thereafter, including a successful London production that ran for 1,997 performances. Since then, numerous productions have been staged around the world, spawning dozens of recordings of the musical, including"
"billed itself as ""the first (and to date the only) nudist musical"". With the nudie market beginning to wane, Lewis and Friedman entered into uncharted territory with 1963's seminal ""Blood Feast"", considered by most critics to be the first ""gore"" film. Because of the unprecedented nature of this type of film, they were able to cater to the drive-in theater market which would have been inaccessible with their prior skin flicks. ""Two Thousand Maniacs!"" (1964) and ""Color Me Blood Red"" (1965) followed the same formula. The full-color gore on display in these films caused a sensation, with horror film-makers throughout"
"The Nude Restaurant The Nude Restaurant, also billed as Nude Restaurant, is a 1967 feature-length underground film directed by Andy Warhol, and starring Viva, Louis Waldon, Taylor Mead, and Billy Name. Different versions of the film exist, with one being an all-male, all-nude cast, and the other with all actors in G-strings. Filmed in one day at the Mad Hatter Restaurant in Manhattan in October 1967. At The Mad Hatter, a New York City restaurant located on the corner of Bleeker Street and Seventh Avenue South and owned by brothers Rob Pinon and Ron Pinon, the patrons are men, nude"
"work of this period, ""Paradise Now"" was notorious for its audience participation and a scene in which actors recited a list of social taboos that included nudity, while disrobing. The work of performance artists after 1968 often showed influences of the cultural and political events of that year. Barbara T. Smith with ""Ritual Meal"" (1969) was at the forefront of the feminist body-, and performance art of the 1970s; among others including: Carolee Schneemann, and Joan Jonas. Schneemann and Jonas along with Yoko Ono, Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell, Allan Kaprow, Vito Acconci, Chris Burden and Dennis Oppenheim"
"the show was about Native Americans, he watched the Public's production several times and joined forces with Joe Papp to reproduce the show at another New York venue after the close of its run at the Public. Papp and Butler first moved the show to The Cheetah, a discothèque at 53rd Street and Broadway. It opened there on December 22, 1967, and ran for 45 performances. There was no nudity in either the Public Theater or Cheetah production. ""Hair"" underwent a thorough overhaul between its closing at the Cheetah in January 1968 and its Broadway opening three months later. The"
"Broadway show ever. The show sparked considerable controversy at the time, because it featured extended scenes of total nudity, both male and female. The title is taken from a painting by Clovis Trouille, itself a pun on """"O quel cul t'as!"""" French for ""What an arse you have!"". Tynan came up with the idea of putting on an erotic revue in the summer of 1966. Tynan had hoped that Harold Pinter would direct the production, in order to give it avant-garde legitimacy, but Pinter declined. Sketches were written by, amongst others, Samuel Beckett, John Lennon, Sam Shepard, Leonard Melfi, Edna"
"specifically for Moorman, including ""TV Bra for Living Sculpture"" (1969) and ""TV-Cello"" (1971). On February 9, 1967, Moorman achieved widespread notoriety for her performance of Paik's ""Opera Sextronique"" at the Film-Makers Cinematheque in New York City. For this performance, Moorman was to perform movements on the cello in various states of nudity. In the program for the performance, Paik wrote: ""The purge of sex under the excuse of being 'serious' exactly undermines the so-called 'seriousness' of music as a classical art, ranking with literature and painting."" During the first movement, Moorman played ""Elegy"" by the French composer Jules Massenet in"
"with the effervescent chemistry between its stars."" Barefoot in the Park (film) Barefoot in the Park is a 1967 American comedy film starring Jane Fonda as Corie, and Robert Redford as Paul. Based on Neil Simon's 1963 play of the same name, it focuses on newlyweds Corie and Paul Bratter and their adventures living in a minuscule sixth floor walk-up apartment in a Greenwich Village brownstone. Stuffed-shirt Paul is a hard-working young attorney just starting his practice, while spontaneous bride Corie is determined to create a romantic environment in one room with no heat, a hole in the skylight, and"
"O'Brien, Jules Feiffer, and Tynan, and featured the cast naked. Peter Schickele (aka ""PDQ Bach""), Robert Dennis and Stanley Walden were the revue's composers, known as The Open Window. Beckett's contribution, ""Breath"", was used as a Prologue in the original New York staging, but Beckett eventually withdrew permission for its use. The musical opened off-Broadway at the Eden Theatre on June 21, 1969, transferred to the Belasco Theatre on February 17, 1971, and closed on August 12, 1972 after a total of 1,314 performances. It was directed by Jacques Levy (later the songwriting partner of Bob Dylan on his album"
"Mona the Virgin Nymph Mona (1970) (also promoted as Mona; the Virgin Nymph) is a sexually explicit adult film that contains a number of unsimulated non-penetrative sex scenes. The film is regarded as the second sexually explicit film to receive a general theatrical release in the United States, after ""Blue Movie"" (1969). Unlike ""Blue Movie"", however, ""Mona"" had a plot, though there was more emphasis on the action. ""Mona"" helped pave the way for other films containing unsimulated sex scenes that later appeared in theaters, during the Golden Age of Porn (1969–1984); and was one of the films of the"
"During that time, a form of lavish and elaborate theater called the extravaganza arose, beginning with Charles M. Barras' ""The Black Crook"". Extravaganzas were criticized by the newspapers and churches of the day because the shows were considered sexually titillating, with women singing bawdy songs dressed in nearly transparent clothing. David Ewen described this as the beginning of the ""long and active careers in sex exploitation"" of American musical theater and popular song. Later, extravaganzas took elements of burlesque performances, which were satiric and parodic productions that were very popular at the end of the 19th century. Like the extravaganza"
"and ""Life Pornography"" (2003). In 2003, he performed an ""Opera"" entitled the Holy Virgin Cult across the United States with two other performers credited as ""Tristan"" and ""Nesi."" The performance was approximately 90 minutes long, with three distinct acts and shorter vignettes, and followed a prerecorded soundtrack. Each act began with the performers dressed in elaborate costumes; priests and a nun, a salesman, child and a housewife, Ancient Temple-Goers or Gods, and ended with all three actors nude and performing simulated and semi-simulated social taboos, scaring audiences with a barrage of apparent flung feces, urine, blood, tortured screaming, public sex"
"synthetic polymer paint and enamel on composition board. Collection of the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. 1967 Performance: Yoko Ono and Juno Gemes, ""The Scream"", Ono covered seated Gemes in bandages from ankle to crown while Ono performed a crescendo of screams. This performance was sabotaged by male owners of the Club. <International Times> Jay Landesman Kingly Street Gallery and Perfumed Garden, London, UK. 1967 Performance: Juno Gemes and Lawrence Bourke, ""The Carnivorous Nature of Love"", performance with female store mannequin, belly filled with offal. The Model was disemboweled to a recitation of Spencerian Sonnet. Joan Littlewood's Stratford East Theatre,"
"and then a civil rights activist and challenges Georgina's life goals. ""Witches Brew"" had a tune that was recycled from ""Call Me Savage,"" a song from a prior musical ""Fade Out – Fade In"" and was originally sung by Carol Burnett. The musical opened on Broadway at the Martin Beck Theatre on April 26, 1967, and closed on January 13, 1968, after 293 performances and 22 previews. It was directed by Burt Shevelove, choreographed by Kevin Carlisle, musical direction by Buster Davis, orchestrations by Peter Matz, with scenic design by William and Jean Eckart, costumes by Irene Sharaff and lighting"
"Hair (musical) Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado and music by Galt MacDermot. A product of the hippie counterculture and sexual revolution of the late 1960s, several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement. The musical's profanity, its depiction of the use of illegal drugs, its treatment of sexuality, its irreverence for the American flag, and its nude scene caused much comment and controversy. The musical broke new ground in musical theatre by defining the genre of ""rock musical"", using a"
"The First Nudie Musical The First Nudie Musical is a 1976 American musical comedy film directed by Mark Haggard and Bruce Kimmel. The movie is a comedy starring Cindy Williams, Stephen Nathan and Bruce Kimmel. Nathan plays Harry Schechter, heir to a Hollywood studio forced to make a musical comedy porno in order to stave off bankruptcy. The movie features a series of farcical lewd musical numbers in the style of classical Hollywood musical comedies including: ""Orgasm"", ""Lesbian Butch Dyke"", and ""Dancing Dildos."" The movie has low-budget feel, with a ""musical-within-a-movie"" theme in the tradition of ""Singin' in the Rain"""
"has also been used for theatre, and has had two periods of theatrical glory, with musicals such as ""Catch My Soul"" (1969). Under administrator George Hoskins, the first phase also featured experimental theatre productions, such as the Living Theatre production of ""1776"" and other plays directed by Peter Brook. The once controversial nude revue ""Oh! Calcutta!"" opened in July 1970, and started a run of nearly four thousand performances in London, and the anarchic ""Evening of British Rubbish"" with professor Bruce Lacey and the Alberts had one performance in 1967. The Greater London Council passed the building to the Camden"
"and casting process was confused, the material itself incomprehensible to many of the theater's staff. The director, Gerald Freedman, the theater's associate artistic director, withdrew in frustration during the final week of rehearsals and offered his resignation. Papp accepted it, and the choreographer Anna Sokolow took over the show. ... After a disastrous final dress rehearsal, Papp wired Mr. Freedman in Washington, where he'd fled: 'Please come back.' Mr. Freedman did."" ""Hair"" premiered off-Broadway at the Public on October 17, 1967, and ran for a limited engagement of six weeks. The lead roles were played by Walker Daniels as Claude,"
"""Psych-Out"", ""The Trip"", and ""Wild in the Streets"". Other more serious and more critically acclaimed films about the hippie counterculture also appeared such as ""Easy Rider"" and ""Alice's Restaurant"". (See also: List of films related to the hippie subculture.) Documentaries and television programs have also been produced until today as well as fiction and nonfiction books. The popular Broadway musical ""Hair"" was presented in 1967. People commonly label other cultural movements of that period as hippie, however there are differences. For example, hippies were often not directly engaged in politics, as contrasted with ""Yippies"" (Youth International Party), an activist organization."
"""Starlight Express"", ""The Sound of Music"", ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"", ""Monty Python's Spamalot"", ""Beauty and the Beast"", ""West Side Story"", ""Jesus Christ Superstar"", ""Thoroughly Modern Millie"", ""The Rocky Horror Show"", ""Fame - The Musical"", ""Never Forget"", ""Priscilla Queen of the Desert - the Musical"", ""Cabaret"", ""Blood Brothers"", ""Saturday Night Fever"", ""Carousel"", ""Footloose - The Musical"", ""Grease"", ""Anything Goes"", ""Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake"", ""Our House"", ""Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story"", ""Carousel"", ""Tap Dogs"", ""Taboo"", ""Flashdance - The Musical"", ""Annie"", ""Annie Get Your Gun"", """", ""Dancing in the Streets"", ""Sister Act"", ""An Inspector Calls"", ""Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"", ""Rock of Ages"", ""Chicago"","