After 3,069 performances, Naked Boys Singing! will end its New York run on Saturday, January 28th. The fifteen-song celebration of the male form opened July 22, 1999 at the Actors Playhouse, making it the longest running Off-Broadway musical after The Fantasticks.
Naked Boys Singing! is currently appearing at New World Stages - Stage 2, located at 340 West 50th Street, between 8th & 9th Avenues. It plays Thursday and Saturday evenings at 8 p.m. Naked Boys has become a New York mainstay, while the London production, which opened to critical acclaim in the West End, is enjoying its second year. In 2012 a new production will open in Sydney, Australia, among others. Worldwide licensing is handled by Martian Entertainment.
Naked Boys Singing! is produced by Jamie Cesa, Carl D. White, Hugh Hayes, and Tom Smedes. It is directed and was conceived by Robert Schrock, and choreographed by Jeffry Denman. Schrock and a team of 12 writers -- Stephen Bates, Marie Cain, Perry Hart, Shelly Markham, Jim Morgan, David Pevsner, Rayme Sciaroni, Mark Savage, Ben Schaechter, Trance Thompson, Mark Winkler and two-time Emmy Award winner Bruce Vilanch. This musical revue reminds us that clothes alone do not make the man.
Tickets are available through Telecharge.com at 212-239-6200 or at the New World Stages Box Office. The show runs at a lean, hard 70 minutes, without an intermission.
For more information, visit the show’s website.
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