Hangin' Out

Yesterday was (as you probably know) Valentine's Vay, so the boys went to someone's house (who foolishly offered to babysit) and we went to the theater to see a musical called: Hangin' Out. Or, to give its full title: Hangin' Out: A New Musical Revue in the Nude, at the Macha Theatre, in West Hollywood.

It was a series of songs, all of which related to being naked, sung by six people, who were naked, and accompanied by a pianist, who was clothed. Many of the songs were about being naked, with titles like "I'm Naked", and "Birthday Suit" (My birthday suit, my birthday suit, I look so cute in my birthday suit). Others had a fairly sexual theme - like "A duet for one" (you can probably work out what that was about) or a choral styled song about Saint Viagra.

The Macha Theatre was very small - it claims to have 99 seats, but I could only count 85, and almost every play there is produced by, written by, directed by, and stars Odalys Nanin (who also seems to be a realtor when she has a few seconds spare). It is, apparently, the only Latina lesbian theatre in the country, and it runs as a non-profit organization.

There wasn't a great deal to link the songs, and I couldn't work out any order to them. They were sung by varying numbers of people - I think each person did at least one on their own, and there were songs by all 6, by all the men, and by all the women, and some other combinations.

The whole thing was very well done, and mostly very funny (I thought that the couple of romantic songs in the second half didn't work quite so well), and the performers were good at singing, and seemed pretty comfortable, considering that they had no clothes on, and were about 4 feet from the front row. The best endowed male, in particular, was good at dancing with the correct rhythm to get, errrmmm, a good pendulum action going.