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'''''Oh! Calcutta!''''' is a play with music (but not a [[Musical]]). Famous mostly for the amount of nudity involved, the play has
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* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: The play was named after [http://garydexter.blogspot.com/2009/12/163-oh-calcutta-by-kenneth-tynan-and.html a painting of the same name]. It's a French pun meaning (roughly) "Oh, what a lovely ass!"
* [[Dance Party Ending]]: Arguable.
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** Also, it was assumed that more than 90% of the people going to see the show were guys getting their rocks off.
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* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Bill Macy<ref>not William H. Macy</ref> was in the original cast and the video version made for [[Pay Per View]] in 1971; starting in 1972, he played [[Maude]] Findlay's husband, Walter.
* [[Loads and Loads of Writers]]: Sketches were written by (among others) [[John Lennon]], [[Sam Shepard]] and [[Waiting for Godot|Samuel Beckett]].
* [[Long Runner]]: ''Oh! Calcutta!'' was the longest-running revue on Broadway, was the longest running revival and is currently{{when}} the fifth-longest run for any Broadway play. (The sixth-longest runner, ''[[Chicago]]'', will pass it sometime in mid-2011 if it doesn't close.)
* [[Male Frontal Nudity]]: Oh! So much!
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: At the end of the "Jack and Jill" sketch, Jack rapes Jill, leaving her alone and comatose at the top of the hill.
* [[Popcultural Osmosis]]: You know of this play as "that naked show" even if you don't know anything else about it.
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* [[Sketch Comedy]]: The show generally.
* [[Small Reference Pools]]: There have been other plays with lots of nudity, but with the possible exception of ''[[Hair (theatre)|Hair]]'', this is the most famous (and ''Hair'' doesn't have much nudity in it anyway, just a little bit at the end of Act I).
* [[A Worldwide Punomenon]]: ''Oh! Calcutta!'' is a pun on the French phrase "Oh, quel cul t'as!", meaning, "Oh, what an ass you have!" The writers of the show didn't come up with it, though -- it's the title of a painting by artist Clovis Trouille called "Oh! Calcutta! Calcutta!", depicting a nude woman from behind, of course. A reproduction of the painting was prominently featured in the show during (at least) its original run.
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[[Category:Theatrical Productions]]
[[Category:Oh! Calcutta!]]
[[Category:Theatre of the 1960s]]
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