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Calcutta!</span></i></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Ps_the_cd70_1090.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f6/Ps_the_cd70_1090.jpg/220px-Ps_the_cd70_1090.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f6/Ps_the_cd70_1090.jpg/330px-Ps_the_cd70_1090.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f6/Ps_the_cd70_1090.jpg 2x" data-file-width="353" data-file-height="281" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption"><i>Oh! Calcutta!</i> original cast album cover</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Music</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Peter_Schickele" title="Peter Schickele">Peter Schickele</a> <br /> Robert Dennis <br /> <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Walden" title="Stanley Walden">Stanley Walden</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Lyrics</th><td class="infobox-data">Peter Schickele <br /> Robert Dennis <br /> Stanley Walden</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Book_(musical_theatre)" class="mw-redirect" title="Book (musical theatre)">Book</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Various Artists</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Productions</th><td class="infobox-data">1969 <a href="/wiki/Off-Broadway" title="Off-Broadway">Off-Broadway</a><br />1970 <a href="/wiki/West_End_theatre" title="West End theatre">West End</a><br />1976 <a href="/wiki/Broadway_theatre" title="Broadway theatre">Broadway</a> revival<br />1977 <a href="/wiki/Madrid" title="Madrid">Madrid</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>Oh! Calcutta!</b></i> is an <a href="/wiki/Avant-garde" title="Avant-garde">avant-garde</a>, risqué theatrical <a href="/wiki/Revue" title="Revue">revue</a> created by British drama critic <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Tynan" title="Kenneth Tynan">Kenneth Tynan</a>. The show, consisting of sketches on sex-related topics, debuted <a href="/wiki/Off-Broadway" title="Off-Broadway">Off-Broadway</a> in 1969 and then in the <a href="/wiki/West_End_theatre" title="West End theatre">West End</a> in 1970. It ran in London for over 3,900 performances, and in New York initially for 1,314. Revivals enjoyed even longer runs, including a 1976 <a href="/wiki/Broadway_theatre" title="Broadway theatre">Broadway</a> revival that ran for 5,959 performances, making the show the longest-running revue in Broadway history, the second longest-running revival (after <i><a href="/wiki/Chicago_(musical)" title="Chicago (musical)">Chicago</a></i>), and the <a href="/wiki/List_of_the_longest-running_Broadway_shows" title="List of the longest-running Broadway shows">eighth longest-running</a> Broadway show ever. </p><p>The show sparked considerable controversy at the time due to its extended scenes of total nudity, both male and female. The title is taken from a painting by <a href="/wiki/Clovis_Trouille" title="Clovis Trouille">Clovis Trouille</a>, a portrait of a reclining nude.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oh!_Calcutta!&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Tynan came up with the idea of putting on an erotic revue in the early summer of 1966.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tynan had hoped that <a href="/wiki/Harold_Pinter" title="Harold Pinter">Harold Pinter</a> would direct the production, in order to give it avant-garde legitimacy, but Pinter declined. Sketches were written by, among others, <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Beckett" title="Samuel Beckett">Samuel Beckett</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Lennon" title="John Lennon">John Lennon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sam_Shepard" title="Sam Shepard">Sam Shepard</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leonard_Melfi" title="Leonard Melfi">Leonard Melfi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Edna_O%27Brien" title="Edna O'Brien">Edna O'Brien</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sherman_Yellen" title="Sherman Yellen">Sherman Yellen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jules_Feiffer" title="Jules Feiffer">Jules Feiffer</a> and Tynan, and featured the cast nude. <a href="/wiki/Peter_Schickele" title="Peter Schickele">Peter Schickele</a> (also known as the creator of <a href="/wiki/PDQ_Bach" class="mw-redirect" title="PDQ Bach">PDQ Bach</a>), Robert Dennis and <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Walden" title="Stanley Walden">Stanley Walden</a> were the revue's <a href="/wiki/Composer" title="Composer">composers</a>, known as The Open Window. Beckett's contribution, <i><a href="/wiki/Breath_(play)" title="Breath (play)">Breath</a></i>, was used as a Prologue in the original New York staging, but Beckett eventually withdrew permission for its use. Tynan commissioned British Pop artist <a href="/wiki/Pauline_Boty" title="Pauline Boty">Pauline Boty</a> to make a series of paintings of erogenous zones on which the revue would be based. Boty died of cancer in July 1966 so only managed to complete one painting, her last: <i>BUM</i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Productions">Productions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oh!_Calcutta!&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Productions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The musical opened off-Broadway at the <a href="/wiki/Village_East_Cinema" class="mw-redirect" title="Village East Cinema">Eden Theatre</a> on June 21, 1969, transferred to the <a href="/wiki/Belasco_Theatre" title="Belasco Theatre">Belasco Theatre</a> on February 17, 1971, and closed on August 12, 1972, after a total of 1,314 performances. It was directed by <a href="/wiki/Jacques_Levy" title="Jacques Levy">Jacques Levy</a> and choreographed by <a href="/wiki/Margo_Sappington" title="Margo Sappington">Margo Sappington</a>. The cast included Sappington, future television stars <a href="/wiki/Bill_Macy" title="Bill Macy">Bill Macy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Alan_Rachins" title="Alan Rachins">Alan Rachins</a>, as well as <a href="/wiki/Leon_Russom" title="Leon Russom">Leon Russom</a>, Nancy Tribush, Philip Gibson and George Welbes,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and three "Open Window" composers.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The musical premiered in London on July 27, 1970, at <a href="/wiki/Roundhouse_(venue)" title="Roundhouse (venue)">The Roundhouse</a>, and transferred to the <a href="/wiki/West_End_theatre" title="West End theatre">West End</a> <a href="/wiki/Royalty_Theatre" title="Royalty Theatre">Royalty Theatre</a> on September 30, 1970, running until January 27, 1974. The show then transferred to the <a href="/wiki/Duchess_Theatre" title="Duchess Theatre">Duchess Theatre</a> on January 28, 1974, where it ran until February 1980, for a total of 3,918 performances.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The London show was produced by <a href="/wiki/Michael_White_(producer)" title="Michael White (producer)">Michael White</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Indie_Walsh_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Indie_Walsh-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Daily_Record_Roberts_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Daily_Record_Roberts-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:NYC-Oh_Calcutta-1981.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/NYC-Oh_Calcutta-1981.jpg/180px-NYC-Oh_Calcutta-1981.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="233" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/NYC-Oh_Calcutta-1981.jpg/270px-NYC-Oh_Calcutta-1981.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/NYC-Oh_Calcutta-1981.jpg/360px-NYC-Oh_Calcutta-1981.jpg 2x" data-file-width="409" data-file-height="530" /></a><figcaption>Billboard on Broadway in 1981</figcaption></figure> <p>A revival opened on <a href="/wiki/Broadway_theatre" title="Broadway theatre">Broadway</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Edison_Theatre" title="Edison Theatre">Edison Theatre</a> on September 24, 1976, and closed on August 6, 1989 after 5,959 performances, again directed and choreographed by Levy and Sappington. The revival briefly became the longest-running show in <a href="/wiki/Broadway_theatre" title="Broadway theatre">Broadway</a> history. It remains Broadway's <a href="/wiki/List_of_the_longest-running_Broadway_shows" title="List of the longest-running Broadway shows">eighth longest-running show</a> and the longest-running revue in Broadway history.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Spanish-language premiere production opened on October 9, 1977 at Teatro Príncipe in Madrid, Spain, directed by Juan José Alonso Millán, who also translated the show.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Filmed_recording">Filmed recording</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oh!_Calcutta!&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Filmed recording"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A <a href="/wiki/Pay-per-view" title="Pay-per-view">pay-per-view</a> video production played on <a href="/wiki/Closed-circuit_television" title="Closed-circuit television">closed-circuit television</a> in select cities in 1971, and was released theatrically in 1972. In both cases, many cities and municipalities banned its screening. Frank Herold, an editor who worked on the film, commented on that in a brief post he contributed to the relevant <a href="/wiki/Internet_Movie_Database" class="mw-redirect" title="Internet Movie Database">Internet Movie Database</a> page.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Synopsis">Synopsis</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oh!_Calcutta!&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Synopsis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Note: the revue takes place in the form of sketches. These are taken from the 1971 pay-per-view production with lyrics and music by Robert Dennis, Peter Schickele and Stanley Walden (unless otherwise noted).</i> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Act_1">Act 1</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oh!_Calcutta!&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Act 1"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dt>Prologue</dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Beckett" title="Samuel Beckett">Samuel Beckett</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Breath_(play)" title="Breath (play)">Breath</a>" (until licence withdrawn by author)</dd></dl> <dl><dt>Taking Off the Robe</dt></dl> <p>The actors dance and remove their robes to the opening song ("Taking Off the Robe" (Oh! Calcutta!)). </p> <dl><dt>Jack & Jill</dt></dl> <p>A boy and a girl who just met are in their own playland, with the boy constantly trying to find ways to seduce the girl, who is afraid of him because he is a boy. The sketch ends with the girl in a coma after the boy rapes her. </p> <dl><dt>A Suite of Five Letters</dt></dl> <p>A song of five letters written by anonymous authors about their sexual preferences. They were actual letters to the editor from various newspapers from olden times in London and, later in the Suite, contemporary letters from sexual newspapers of the day. </p> <dl><dt>Dick and Jane</dt></dl> <p>An uptight girl gets a lesson in loosening up after her lover is sick of her constantly stiff ways. </p> <dl><dt>Will Answer All Serious Replies</dt></dl> <p>A young couple starts to rethink getting into the <a href="/wiki/Swinging_(sexual_practice)" title="Swinging (sexual practice)">swingers lifestyle</a> after meeting the middle-aged couple who answers their ad. </p> <dl><dt>Delicious Indignities</dt></dl> <p>A chaste woman is caught by her admirer, who then proceeds to learn that she is not as chaste as he thinks she is. It was written by <a href="/wiki/Sherman_Yellen" title="Sherman Yellen">Sherman Yellen</a>. </p> <dl><dt>Was It Good for You, Too?</dt></dl> <p>A man participates in a sex study and the whole experience ends up turning into one big farce. The scene plays like the <a href="/wiki/Marx_Brothers" title="Marx Brothers">Marx Brothers</a> at a sex research facility. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Act_2">Act 2</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oh!_Calcutta!&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Act 2"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dt>"Who, Whom (Exchanges of Information)" (added during run)</dt></dl> <dl><dt>Life Is Over Much Too Soon</dt></dl> <p>A pre-recorded section, where the actors are nude outside doing interpretive dance ("Much Too Soon", music and lyrics by Jacques Levy, Dennis, Schickele and Walden). </p> <dl><dt>One on One</dt></dl> <p>Another nude interpretive dance. </p> <dl><dt>Rock Garden</dt></dl> <p>After a man rambles on about painting the fence and building a rock garden, his son talks about what girls <i>really</i> like. </p> <dl><dt>Four in Hand</dt></dl> <p>A newcomer to a <a href="/wiki/Masturbation" title="Masturbation">masturbation</a> game cannot seem to think of anything to masturbate to (this sketch's first draft was written by <a href="/wiki/John_Lennon" title="John Lennon">John Lennon</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <dl><dt>Finale</dt></dl> <p>Players come out to sing the finale, also doing voiceover as to what the theater patrons are really thinking about the experience. Examples include: "She has pretty eyes" (the joke being that all of the actors are nude at this point), "How come none of the guys have <a href="/wiki/Erection" title="Erection">hard-ons</a>?" "That's my boyfriend—that IS a hard-on" and "If they showed this in <a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington</a>, <a href="/wiki/Spiro_Agnew" title="Spiro Agnew">Agnew</a> would shit!" ("Coming Together, Going Together"). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Critical_response">Critical response</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oh!_Calcutta!&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Critical response"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Clive_Barnes" title="Clive Barnes">Clive Barnes</a>, in his 1969 review for <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, wrote that "the humor is so doggedly sophomoric and soporific", adding: "The failure here is almost exclusively a failure of the writers and the producers. The director, Jacques Levy, has done his best with the weak material at hand ... the nude scenes, while derivative, are attractive enough. The best effects—including the rather sweet grope-in immediately after the intermission—have been taken from <a href="/wiki/Robert_Joffrey" title="Robert Joffrey">Robert Joffrey</a>'s ballet '<a href="/wiki/Astarte_(ballet)" title="Astarte (ballet)">Astarte</a>', and the show uses the same projected media designers ... In sum, <i>Oh! Calcutta!</i> is likely to disappoint different people in different ways, but disappointment is the order of the night."<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Irving_Wardle" title="Irving Wardle">Irving Wardle</a>, writing in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i> in 1970, said: "I have seen better revues than <i>Oh! Calcutta!</i> but none based on ideas that strike me as more sympathetic. Namely that the ordinary human body is an object well worth attention: and that there is no reason why the public treatment of sex should not be extended to take in not only lyricism and personal emotion but also the rich harvest of bawdy jokes." He noted that the enjoyment and lack of embarrassment of the cast helped the audience to accept the more insubstantial elements of the revue's material and that the stage sets' screen projections assisted the dance numbers considerably, concluding: "In many ways, it is a ghastly show: ill-written, juvenile, and attention-seeking. But it is not a menace."<sup id="cite_ref-The_Times_Wardle_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Times_Wardle-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Obscenity_allegations">Obscenity allegations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oh!_Calcutta!&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Obscenity allegations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The 1970 production at <a href="/wiki/The_Roundhouse" class="mw-redirect" title="The Roundhouse">The Roundhouse</a>, London, attracted the attention of the <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Police" title="Metropolitan Police">Metropolitan Police</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Obscene_Publications_Squad" class="mw-redirect" title="Obscene Publications Squad">Obscene Publications Squad</a>, which sent two officers to a preview of the show. One of the officers returned twice more, before recommending a prosecution under the <a href="/wiki/Theatres_Act_1968" title="Theatres Act 1968">Theatres Act 1968</a> for obscenity. The <a href="/wiki/Director_of_Public_Prosecutions_(England_and_Wales)" title="Director of Public Prosecutions (England and Wales)">Director of Public Prosecutions</a> sent its panel of experts, including two retired headmistresses, to see The Roundhouse production. Their judgement that it was not obscene enabled it to transfer to London's West End.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Guardian_Travis_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Guardian_Travis-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Oh!_Calcutta!&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-2"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Trouille's 1946 work <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://clovis-trouille.com/oh-calcutta-calcutta/"><i>Oh! 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