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Karu F. Daniels

Nudity is the reason Broadway's ‘Take Me Out’ audiences being asked to lock up phones

NEW YORK — Theatergoers to new Broadway play “Take Me Out” do not seem to mind having to lock up their cell phones in Yondr felt pouches with a magnetic security tags for the 2-hour, 15-minute play – a practice the Hayes Theater instituted to protect cast members during several nude scenes.

Lengthy full-frontal scenes in the shower involved such stars as Jesse Williams and Patrick J. Adams.

“We were all a little unsure if it would work and were worried the audience would be really resentful that they had had their phones taken away,” star Adams told the Daily News.

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