Yes, I'd like to know who is naked as well, for how long and when exactly this happens and also what the lighting is like in those scenes. My........Grandmother doesn't like it. Yes, that's it. My Grandmother needs to know. She's very particular about this.
I haven't seen the Sig. production yet, but I do recall a memorable moment in the miniseries where Mary Louise Parker pulled the whole jungle out as Harper partway through Pt. 1.
"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
^ I work in an archive center at my school, and just last week I was filing away Mary Louise Parker's things, and among them was the hair piece she glued down there. Good times.
Bill Heck and Christian Borle both get naked. Zachary Quinto drops his pants in the park sex scene, but no full frontal. And I can't believe I actually typed this up...
Can someone who also so the original Broadway production confirm something for me.
I saw PERESTROIKA twice. Once with David Marshall Grant as Joe and once with Jay Goedde (sp?). During the 'winter Atlantic' scene, Joe stripped down to his Mormon undies and was kept from taking it all off by Louis.
This recollection is correct...right? I didn't actually miss the nudity, did I? And has doing full nudity in that scene been something that's been done since the tv movie?
In the script, it specifies that Joe should be naked in that scene; but David Marshall Grant, for the usual reason (as very popular rumor has it), doesn't do full frontal. So in the original production, Joe kept his 2nd skin on.
Also in the original, Joe Mantello, as Louis, kept his underwear on in a scene that (I believe) was specified as nude.
Millenium Approaches (Act 3, Scene 2): EMILY: Only six. That's good. Pants. (He drops his pants. He's naked. She examines.)
Perestroika (Act 3, Scene 4): (Joe pushes Louis away, Louis falls, and Joe removes most of the rest of his clothing, tearing the temple garment off. He's almost naked.)
Officially, only Prior is required to be naked by written standards. However, the stage directions only coincide with the original production's blocking. Joe may or may not be naked. In this production, he is. So, as we've all just read, Prior and Joe get naked, Harper is in her underwear, and Louis drops his pants with no nudity.