Naked Jennifer Ellison breaks wrist in bizarre piano accident

Naked Jennifer Ellison breaks wrist in bizarre piano accident - mirror.co.uk

I don't know what's so bizarre about a falling piano. It happened 30 minutes before curtain for Wednesday's performance of the touring production of "Calendar Girls," which if you're reading this blog you should darn well know what it's about. Now Ms Ellison knows that "catch that piano" works about as well as you would think it would.
But she was back on stage the next night, wearing a bright pink cast. And, presumably, not much else.

See also the Daily Mail and, if you do a quick Google search, almost every other newspaper in Britain.

Calendar Girls: the Stage Play in New Zealand

Calendar Girls: Being naked on stage, but very tasteful | The National Business Review
It is a delightful and entertaining piece of theatre. It has heart, lots of genuine emotion and true sentimentality. The success of the show is due largely to the enthusiastic performances of the six female leads.
...The play manages to provide something between voyeurism and titillation, never giving offence, presenting the naked women in the best of all possible taste. This is a show for the prudish as well as the broadminded – maybe not too prudish, though.

Well, it is about women getting naked, after all. It's not like you didn't know what you were getting when you bought the ticket.

See another review in Auckland Now and the advance stories in the Star-Times and Auckland Now. And if you're in New Zealand, why not go?

Can't we all just get along... naked?

Well, this was unexpected.

Naked fury! Why Calendar Girls are going into battle - The Independent

The amateur rights for the [stage] play, based on the true story of members of Rylstone and District Women's Institute in Yorkshire stripping off for a charity calendar, are being released for the first time for 12 months from 1 September next year. The producers hope to establish a Guinness World Record for the most productions of one play in a year, with a percentage of the royalties going to Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research.

But the limited window – combined with unprecedented demand – is frustrating drama groups. Mr Pugh has received angry telephone calls from some "very forthright" amateur dramatics societies complaining that other local groups are also planning to stage the play. In some cases, they are "fighting over" the same theatre or church hall.

Now, if every group who wanted to produce this play just ignored the others and went ahead and did it, I could foresee a number of things happening.

• A world record well and truly shattered
• Massive amounts of money for leukemia research, surely not a bad thing
• An unprecedented amount of female nudity (of, ahem, more mature nature than average)
• Saturation of the market?

Really? That's what they're afraid of? Too many naked old ladies? And they can say that with a straight face?