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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 see several long running revivals on both Broadway and the West End.

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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 see seen several long running revivals on both Broadway and the West End.
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* ExcitedShowTitle: Not one but two separate exclamation points in a short two-word title.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: One of the sketches is about a masturbation contest.
** 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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* DreamBallet: Interspersed throughout the play are several trippy interpretive dance numbers, including the opening act where the actors disrobe in time to music.
* ExcitedShowTitle: Not one but two separate exclamation points in a short two-word title.



* LoadsAndLoadsOfWriters: Sketches were written by (among others) Music/JohnLennon, Music/SamShepard and [[Theatre/WaitingForGodot Samuel Beckett]].

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* LoadsAndLoadsOfWriters: Sketches were written by (among others) Music/JohnLennon, Music/SamShepard and [[Theatre/WaitingForGodot Samuel Beckett]].Creator/SamuelBeckett.



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%%* * MaleFrontalNudity: Oh! So much!''All'' the actors in the play, male and female alike, perform in the nude.



* SketchComedy: The show generally.

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* SketchComedy: The show generally.is a series of short skits and musical numbers with not a lot to unify their themes except the idea of sexuality.
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* DancePartyEnding: At least in the 1970 filmed version.

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* HeadTurningBeauty: The [[HopsitalHottie nurse]] in the Doctor's Office sketch.

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* HeadTurningBeauty: The [[HopsitalHottie [[HospitalHottie nurse]] in the Doctor's Office sketch.



* MaleFrontalNudity: Oh! So much!

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* HelloNurse: Appropriately enough, the nurse in the Doctor's Office sketch.

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* HelloNurse: Appropriately enough, the nurse HeadTurningBeauty: The [[HopsitalHottie nurse]] in the Doctor's Office sketch.
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* LongRunner: ''Oh! Calcutta!'' was the longest-running revue on Broadway, was the longest running revival and is currently the fifth-longest run for any Broadway play. (The sixth-longest runner, ''Theatre/{{Chicago}}'', will pass it sometime in mid-2011 if it doesn't close.)

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* LongRunner: ''Oh! Calcutta!'' was the longest-running revue on Broadway, was the longest running revival and is currently the fifth-longest run for any eighth longest-running play in Broadway play. (The sixth-longest runner, ''Theatre/{{Chicago}}'', will pass it sometime in mid-2011 if it doesn't close.)history.
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* SmallReferencePools: There have been other plays with lots of nudity, but with the possible exception of ''{{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).

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* SmallReferencePools: 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).
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfWriters: Sketches were written by (among others) Music/JohnLennon, Music/SamShepard and [[WaitingForGodot Samuel Beckett]].

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* LoadsAndLoadsOfWriters: Sketches were written by (among others) Music/JohnLennon, Music/SamShepard and [[WaitingForGodot [[Theatre/WaitingForGodot Samuel Beckett]].
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* BilingualBonus: 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!"

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* BilingualBonus: 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!"ass you have!"
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfWriters: Sketches were written by (among others) JohnLennon, Music/SamShepard and [[WaitingForGodot Samuel Beckett]].

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* LoadsAndLoadsOfWriters: Sketches were written by (among others) JohnLennon, Music/JohnLennon, Music/SamShepard and [[WaitingForGodot Samuel Beckett]].
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* DancePartyEnding: Arguable.

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* DancePartyEnding: Arguable.At least in the 1970 filmed version.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfWriters: Sketches were written by (among others) JohnLennon, SamShepard and [[WaitingForGodot Samuel Beckett]].

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* LoadsAndLoadsOfWriters: Sketches were written by (among others) JohnLennon, SamShepard Music/SamShepard and [[WaitingForGodot Samuel Beckett]].

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* HeyItsThatGuy: Bill Macy[[hottip:*:not William H. Macy]] was in the original cast and the video version made for PayPerView in 1971; starting in 1972, he played {{Maude}} Findlay's husband, Walter.
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* LongRunner: ''Oh! Calcutta!'' was the longest-running revue on Broadway, was the longest running revival and is currently 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.)

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* LongRunner: ''Oh! Calcutta!'' was the longest-running revue on Broadway, was the longest running revival and is currently the fifth-longest run for any Broadway play. (The sixth-longest runner, ''{{Chicago}}'', ''Theatre/{{Chicago}}'', will pass it sometime in mid-2011 if it doesn't close.)

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Removed sensationalist content from the description. The description needs more about the plot of the play, such as it is than it does commentary about the nudity. Even if the nudity was the point of the play.


''Oh! Calcutta!'' is an infamous play with music (but not a {{Musical}}). It was infamous mostly for the amount of nudity involved, which wasn't equalled in Popular Culture until the birth of what we now know as [[TheInternetIsForPorn the Internet]].

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''Oh! Calcutta!'' is an infamous a play with music (but not a {{Musical}}). It was infamous Famous mostly for the amount of nudity involved, which wasn't equalled in Popular Culture until the birth of what we now know as [[TheInternetIsForPorn play has see several long running revivals on both Broadway and the Internet]].West End.

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