Take Me Out
Take Me Out was a Broadway play that explored issues of homophobia and racism in a fictional Major League Baseball team. The play opened off-Broadway in London in 2002. There is a locker room shower scene in the play where the characters are completely naked. Above, Dominic Fumusa was one of the ballplayers in the 2002 London production.
The play moved to Broadway in 2003. Daniel Sunjata, above, played the lead character, Darren Lemming, a team member who comes out as gay.
Fred Weller, above, played a team member who is a bigot, telling people he is uncomfortable with colored people on the team and with having to shower with a faggot.
The 2003 Broadway production won the 2003 Tony award for Best Play.
A Broadway revival of the play opened in 2022. Above, part of the shower scene. This video is missing the audio track, but we get to see some things.
In 2022, the team member who comes out as gay was played by Jesse Williams, above, best known for having played Dr. Jackson Avery in Grey's Anatomy. The production won the 2022 Tony award for Best Revival of a Play.
2 comments:
Saw it in Toronto in 2005... Nudity aside, it was a great show. Too bad Jesse Williams wasn't in that production!
Reminds me of this:
https://vimeo.com/263367414
They where naked too on stage
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