Speaking of Mike Doyle and nudity (but not his own in this case), in 2002 he appeared in an Off-Broadway play called BURNING BLUE with a beautiful actor named Bill Dawes, who was fully nude in it. Bill got a lot of very positive reaction for his performance and his gorgeous, naked body. The New York Post ran an article by Michael Riedel about some backstage drama at the show. It mentioned Dawes' ample endowment, and after that article appeared, Mike said -- not with malice at all, but with humor -- "Now everybody wants to hire Bill Dawes!"

I was going to link to the article, but I don't want to give the Post any traffic, so here is the first part of it, and I'll post the second part momentarily.

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NAKED AGGRESSION – ‘BURNING’ GOES DOWN IN FLAMES

There was plenty of drama at “Burning Blue,” D.M.W. Greer’s off-Broadway play about the hot-button issue of gays in the military.

Unfortunately for the critics and audiences who found its take on the don’t-ask-don’t-tell policy rather tiresome, most of the drama took place off-stage.

During the short but volatile run of “Burning Blue,” which closed this weekend, the actors clashed bitterly with the director (in one instance, over the size of an actor’s penis), stage managers yelled at actors for not sticking to the script – and one performer was dismissed for punching a hole in his dressing room wall.

One actor pins the blame for the “toxic” backstage environment on director John Hickok and an “inexperienced” producer, George De Marco.

“We were a ship without a captain,” says the actor.

De Marco declined comment, but Hickok says if anyone is at fault, it’s the actors.

“They changed the script and the blocking during the run, which is prohibited by Actors Equity,” he says. “They experimented with stuff on stage, and they ignored the stage managers when they were told to stop.”

The director butted heads with several cast members, especially Bill Dawes, an up-and-coming young actor who was widely praised for his performance as Air Force pilot Charlie Trumbo.

Dawes appeared naked on stage, and as nightly gasping from the audience attested, he is amply endowed.

On at least one occasion, he came on stage even more endowed than usual.

Hickok accused him of “fluffing” himself before the show and told him not to do it again.

Says Dawes, “I hate to break it to him, but I never fluffed. Given the comments he made in rehearsal, maybe he has penis envy.”

The actor says Hickok regularly made fun of his God-given attributes, calling him “Big Charlie” and snickering, “Why don’t you put a harness on that thing?”