Naked Boys Singing! to Receive Big Screen Adaptation

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the long-running Off-Broadway hit Naked Boys Singing! will become a motion picture.

Robert Schrock, the original director of the all-nude musical hit, will direct the screen version.  It will be presented by Funny Boy Films and produced by Kirkland Tibbels.

Andrew Blake Ames, Jason Currie, James Hodges, Joseph Keane, Anthony Manough, Joe Souza, Kevin Stea, Phong Truong and Salvatore Vassallo, with original L.A. cast member Vincent Zamora, will be featured in Naked Boys Singing!.  The film will boast digital camera direction and choreography by Troy Christian, as well as new musical arrangements.

A behind-the-scenes documentary will be released either as a DVD bonus feature or on a separate DVD.

Naked Boys Singing! is now in its 7th year off-Broadway. The show, a fifteen-song musical revue, is produced by Jamie Cesa, Carl D. White, Hugh Hayes and Tom Smedes, directed and conceived by Schrock, and choreographed by Jeffry Denman. Stephen Bates, Marie Cain, Shelly Markham, Jim Morgan, David Pevsner, Rayme Sciaroni, Mark Savage, Ben Schaechter,  Schrock, Mark Winkler and Bruce Vilanch contributed songs and sketches to the show.

Naked Boys Singing! celebrates "the splendors of male nudity in comedy, song and dance. Musical numbers range from the screamingly funny (like the sassy opening number 'Gratuitous Nudity' or the circumcision-based 'Bliss of a Bris') to poignant and moving numbers (such as 'Kris Look What You've Missed' and 'Window to Window')." Other musical numbers include "Fight the Urge," "Muscle Addiction," and "Nothing But the Radio On." 

Naked Boys Singing! currently plays New World Stages.   The show opened at the Actor's Playhouse on July 22, 1999 after having run successfully at the Celebration Theatre in LA.  It has since played several Off-Broadway houses before moving to its current home.

Visit www.nakedboyssinging.com for more information.