Nov 21, 2025
1970.
Oh Calcutta by the Dave Pell Singers.
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1970.
Oh Calcutta by the Dave Pell Singers.
But I still think Oh, Calcutta would have been more fun.
(Captain America #253)
Oh Calcutta, Winston-Salem, NC
Paul McCartney’s planned new musical wouldn’t be the first time an actual Beatle created something original for Broadway. But it would be wo
I remembered about Paul working on a Broadway show.
Here's my favorite quote from this article:
At the age of 28 (while he was still a Beatle), John Lennon wrote a brief sketch for Kenneth Tynan’s erotic revue “Oh! Calcutta!” The show was a huge hit. It opened in 1969, ran for three years, and then was revived in 1976 and ran for another 13 years. Lennon’s contribution is entitled “Four in Hand” and it is about – ready for this – four men masturbating together. They use “a telepathic thought transmitter” to project what they’re fantasizing about on the screen. Newcomer George (!) fantasizes about the Lone Ranger, which irritates the other three. Cheeky and homoerotic, the sketch reveals a characteristic irreverence that some fans – and the entertainment entrepreneurs who cater to them – seem to have lost sight of.
Are you actually fucking kidding Lennon?
Listen/purchase: Beyond the Embarrassing Style by The Lawrence Arms
A bit of September 24th history...
1180 - Manuel I Komnenos, last emperor of the Komnenian restoration dies, the Byzantine Empire slips into terminal decline
1529 - Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and his Ottoman troops arrive in Vienna, beginning of the siege
1952 - American fast food restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken, opens its 1st franchise in Salt Lake City, Utah (pictured)
1976 - “Oh! Calcutta!” revival opens at Edison Theater NYC fro 5,959 performances, Broadway’s longest running musical revue
1990 - Iraq invades the French and Dutch missions in Kuwait, Saddam Hussein states his willingness to strike 1st and his intention to damage oil fields in the region
2017 - NFL players kneel, lock arms, or stay in their dressing room during the anthem in protest against comments made by President Trump
2019 - UK Supreme Court rules suspension of UK parliament for 5 weeks as Boris Johnson’s Conservative government was unlawful
2019 - Nancy Pelosi announces formal impeachment inquiry into US President Trump, arguing that he tried to enlist a foreign power for his own political gain
