The cast of Naked Boys Singing are putting their pants back on. The all-nude male revue will close at off-Broadway's New World Stages on January 28. The production opened on July 22, 1999 at the Actors Playhouse and will have played 3,069 performances at the time of closing.
Naked Boys Singing is the second longest running off-Broadway musical after The Fantasticks. Naked Boys Singing continues to run in London, and a new production will launch in Sydney, Australia in 2012.
Naked Boys Singing was written Stephen Bates, Marie Cain, Perry Hart, Shelly Markham, Jim Morgan, David Pevsner, Rayme Sciaroni, Mark Savage, Ben Schaechter, Trance Thompson, Mark Winkler and two-time Emmy Award winner Bruce Vilanch, and produced by Jamie Cesa, Carl D. White, Hugh Hayes, and Tom Smedes. The production was directed and conceived by Robert Schrock and choreographed by Jeffry Denman.