Oh! Calcutta! was a long-running theatrical
revue[?], debuting
off-Broadway in
1969, created by British critic
Kenneth Tynan[?]. Most of the sketches (written by
Samuel Beckett,
John Lennon and
Jules Feiffer[?], among others) featured the cast
naked (including
Bill Macy).
Peter Schikele[?] (aka PDQ Bach) was one of the revue's three
composers. A pay-per-view video production played on closed-circuit TV in select cities in
1971, and a motion picture version was also released -- in both cases many cities and municipalities banned its showing. A
1976 Broadway revival lasted 13 years, briefly becoming the longest-running play in Broadway history.
The title is a pun on "O quel cul t'as", French for "What a bottom you have".