The top secret that turned onto to not be so top secret is out: Skin favoriteTrue Blood(no, really—we've collected 15 pages of skintastic pictures for this series) is being turned into a Broadway production.According to an article by the New York Post, this musical is so realit'salready had a preliminary reading. This is awesome for several reasons:
- True Blood has so many naked people. So many that sex and nudity are an integral part of the story line.
- HBO is helming this, and HBO loves naked people!
- Considering that the only place that holds nudity in higher esteem than HBO is the stage, this is perfect. (Or so I hope.)
For anyone unfamiliar with the vampire orgy that is True Blood, allow me to get you up to speed on what you need to know. The setting is Bon Temps, Louisiana, in a day and age when all the previously closeted vampires have come out to the human public thanks to invention of synthetic blood—aptly called Tru Blood. Our protagonist is Sookie Stackhouse, played on the show byAnna Paquin. She is a psychic bartender who is always hooking up with a supernatural man of some sort—be he a vampire, a fairy or a vampire fairy. (YUP.)
Sookie is naked all the time. It's wonderful. There's Lilith, god of the vampires, who makes an appearance whenever she pleases. She is quite literally never clothed in any capacity when she does this. Apparently where she comes from, clothes are irrelevant, so probably heaven.
Pre-Masters-of-Sex Lizzie Caplan is in this show briefly too. She's a V junkie—which means she, like many other humans in the show, drinks vampire blood to get high as a kite. Much like it is with other illicit substancesyou might compare it to, having sex on V is an esteemed activity, as is having sex with actual vampires for a cult-like group of followers called fang bangers. Rolls off the tongue nicely, doesn't it?
Shape-shifters are also a component of the story line, and due to the nature of shape-shifting, usually make their transitions back into humans naked. There are also werewolves, and the same goes for them. (I'm probably the one one here who's read the entirety of Twilight, but this is exactly what the series was missing in my humble opinion.)
There are tons and tons of vampires, who are as sexually ravenous as they are painted to be in most modern and ancient folklore. They like having sex with other vampires and plenty of humans. Sometimes that ends in said humans' demise and sometimes it doesn't—depends on the fangs you're banging.
The plot line is pretty intricate (as it should be at seven seasons), so it'll be quite interesting to see how it's distilled into a singular musical.Regardless, I know one thing is certain: It's not True Blood if no one is naked.
(PS: Happy National Fried Chicken Day.)
