Oh! Calcutta! Streaming
Mardi, août 31st, 2010 |
Oh! Calcutta! Streaming.
Movie Title: Oh! Calcutta! Oh! Calcutta! is available for streaming or downloading. |
I saw this production when it played in the East Village in 1969 and then again when it subsequently transferred to Broadway. It was considered controversial and outrageous for the time but seems a bit silly and rather tame by today’s standards. Some of the sketches are interesting. Some are trite.
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They filmed the stage show badly–adding cinematic touches that are both distracting and annoying. The “taking off the robe” number done as the musical opener of the show was funny and erotic on stage and is totally destroyed by the multiple split screen nonsense in the film. Other psychedelic techniques associated with the time period are also used throughout the film that add nothing and detract from the show. The film cannot make up its mind whether it wants to be a film of the show in a theater or a film based on a theater revue. The nude ballet, a highlight in the stage show, is ruined in the film
Sadly, Oh! Calcutta! the film doesn’t do the theater piece the justice it deserves either as a slight piece of entertainment or a piece of theater history.
Oh Calcutta is not well represented by this DVD, or the original VHS version either…(they are both identical). Let us first say that unlike other mentions of this show being a taped version of the Broadway show; not so. Some of it was taped at a television studio on the West Side of Manhattan, and the exteriors were taped in Connecticut at someones property. It was the same script as the Broadway show, but it included some actors who were not in the original Off-Broadway version, such as Alan Rachins, Bonnie Enton, Katie Drew Wilkenson and Leon Russom. Bill Macy never did the Broadway version but left the show while it was Off-Broadway. Levy asked him to do the taping and he agreed.
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Oh Calcutta was never a great show. It was a musical review with various authors contributing sketches (some were rejected) that were picked over, pasted together, and even rewritten, by Jacques Levy, Margo Sappinton, the Open Window, and with significant(unrewarded)contributions and efforts by the original cast.
The taping was an awkward affair with the invited audience kept waiting for almost two hours before the taping began and each scene was done alone, with time taken between scenes for setting up the next one. There were only a few scenes done in front of that mostly bored audience while the rest of the scenes were taped later after the audience was excused. Some scenes were done in the middle of the night with exhausted actors and the crew working into the dawn hours. The audience reactions were recorded and sweetened in the final mix.
Now here is the kicker. The actors, who had contracts to be paid for any transfer of the original tape to another media, and who had a percentage of the profits, were never paid for those transfers or profits, including the motion picture profits. (they transferred it to film and distributed it internationally) Those profits were reported in trade papers as 7 million dollars! The reported cost of the taping? $400 thousand. How do I know? Because I was one of the actors.
Adding insult to injury they now have transferred it to DVD.
If you buy this DVD new, you are lining the pockets of the same people who cheated the actors.
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