Summaries

Synopsis

This is a 1970 video-taped live stage version of the controversial stage musical (known as "the first nude musical") that features skits dealing with the topics of sex and nudity.

TAKING OFF THE ROBE (12 minutes)

After a quick introduction to the cast backstage, the actors and actresses (five men and five women) go on stage each wearing a white robe bathed in a different color spotlight where they dance and remove their robes to the opening song and do the number fully in the nude ("Taking Off the Robe" (aka: Oh! Calcutta!)).

JACK AND JILL (15 minutes)

A teenage boy and a girl who just met are in their own play land, with the boy constantly trying to find ways to seduce the girl who is afraid of him because he's a boy. The boy, Jack, then forces himself on the girl, Jill, semi-raping her which leads her to being in a catatonic-like coma. Distraught, Jack sings his feelings about Jill ("Jack & Jill") and leaves her alone as the image fades out.

A SUITE OF FIVE LETTERS (7 minutes)

Features a song sung by three well-dressed ladies and two tuxedo-clad gentlemen which is a composite of five letters written by five anonymous authors about their sexual preferences ("Suite for Five Letters").

DICK AND JANE (11 minutes)

Jane is an uptight girl who gets a lesson in loosening up after her lover, Dick, is sick of her constantly stiff ways after another unsatisfying night in bed.

WILL ANSWER ALL SINCERE REPLIES (14 minutes)

A young married couple start to re-think getting into the swingers lifestyle after meeting the middle-aged couple who answer their ad ("Sincere Replies"). At first the young woman is unwilling to participate, but then caves in which her husband becomes the one who is reluctant to partake in the group-sex thing.

DELICIOUS INDIGNITIES (13 minutes)

Set in the 1890s, a chaste woman is caught by her admirer in a love-trap contraption, who then proceeds to learn that she isn't as chaste as he thinks she is when he gets caught in one of his own love-trap contraptions and they both find themselves tied up unable to physically touch one another.

WAS IT GOOD FOR YOU, TOO? (10 minutes)

A man participates in a sex study at a local hospital and the whole experience ends up turning into one big farce ("Was It Good For You Too? (Green Pants, I Like the Look)"). The scene plays like a Marx Brothers-theme complete with a scruffy doctor delivering nasty one-liners, a wild-eyed doctor who never speaks, plus a dumb-blond semi-nude nurse (the funniest segment).

LIFE IS OVER MUCH TOO SOON (8 minutes)

A pre-filmed section, where the performers are nude outside doing an interpretive dance ("Much Too Soon") in a garden, ending with the five men and women having sex with one another.

ONE ON ONE (9 minutes)

Another nude interpretive dance but this time set live on-stage involving a single man and woman ("One on One (Clarence and Mildred)").

ROCK GARDEN (7 minutes)

This segment features two scruffy-dressed swamp hicks, a father and son, sitting on rocking chairs on the front porch of their shack. The father then rambles on and on about what color to paint the back fence as well as building a rock garden and what flowers to plant. After his monologue, the son then rambles on and on about what girls "really" like in bed. The son gets so caught up in the graphic sexual talk that when he is finished, the father falls off his rocking chair and dies.

FOUR IN A HAND (4 minutes)

A newcomer to a men's club is forced to partake in a 'masturbation game.' But he can't seem to think of anything to masturbate to. So, he ends up thinking about the character of the Lone Ranger to the tunes of the William Tell Overture.

FINALE (12 minutes)

The players come out on stage to sing the final song and dance in which all of them once again take off all of their clothing and dance fully in the nude as in the opening segment, also doing voice-overs as to what the theater patrons are really thinking about the experience of watching this first all-nude stage musical. ("Coming Together, Going Together")