Nude Musical Revue Scheduled to Resume
 

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By Associated Press


This undated file photo originally supplied by the
producers ...
MILWAUKEE - The guys in "Naked Boys Singing!" will
take off their clothes again next month.

The musical revue, which was shut down in August at
the Milwaukee Gay Arts Center after officials said a
necessary theater license had not been obtained, will
resume performances Oct. 29 and run through Dec. 31,
Paul Masterson, the center's director, said Wednesday.

The center started the show Aug. 11 and was scheduled
to continue it until Sept. 3. But police vice officers
told officials Aug. 18 that they needed the theater
license, according to a claim center attorney Richard
Hart filed with the city. Police ordered the center to
shut down the production immediately or face the
possibility of prosecution, according to the claim.

Hart said that the center received a letter from the
city's license division later last month indicating
that officials believed the center's nonprofit status
meant it did not need a theater license after all.

Masterson said some of the performers joined other
projects after the original run of the show was cut
short in Milwaukee, and that accounted for the late
October starting date of the resumed run.

"We're excited to get all this behind us," he said.
"It was really not our intention to have anything like
this happen, and we regret that we were singled out by
the hostility from whatever quarter this came from."

"Naked Boys Singing!" has run into trouble with
authorities before in such cities as Provincetown,
Mass., San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Atlanta. Eventually,
all three cities held performances of the show.