And lets not forget Rob Donohoe, whose broadly comic Watchdog Melvin P. Theres a touching performance from Roxie Lucas as Doatsy Mae, the waitress who has always wanted to - but never could - be less respectable. Theres also nice work by Ed Dixon in multiple roles, including the cagey Texas Governor who does The Sidestep (and very nimbly, too) when confronted with uncomfortable questions. Who would imagine that this is the same actor who gave us such a believably neurotic Mortimer Brewster in Arsenic and Old Lace several years ago? The guys got range. As easygoing Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd, Gary Sandy is big, earthy, and totally convincing. The cast for this revival is strong, talented and energetic. Fans of the show will notice some minor changes from the 1978 original, including a new song for Miss Mona, but otherwise this is the same hit that last played here over twenty years ago. Carol Halls music and lyrics carry the strong book along nicely with a memorable blend of Broadway and Western swing influences. It also gives us appealing and believable characters, a solid story, and moments of genuine sadness amongst the raunchy humor. King and Peter Masterson sticks pretty close to the facts, even going so far as to include some of the real Chicken Ranch house rules in the number ∺ Lil Bitty Pissant Country Place. Names have been changed to protect the guilty, but the script by Larry L.
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The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas tells the mostly true story of The Chicken Ranch, a squeaky-clean brothel that flourished just outside of La Grange, Texas from 1844 until 1973, when it was shut down by the Governor following a week-long expose by a publicity-hungry Houston TV newsdroid. Just in time, this shows raunchy and pointed satire on public sanctimony arrives to remind us that those who make the biggest show of their morality are the least likely to have any. Pythons Flying Circus moved its troupe of knaves, mountebanks, fanatics and fakes into our nations capital. And hypocrisy is something weve seen quite a lot of since George W. Thats because, as Gary Sandy remarked in an interview Tuesday morning on FM88s Break a Leg show, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas is basically about hypocrisy. The revival of the 1978 musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas couldnt be starting its fifty-city US tour at a more appropriate time. The_Doge's Theatre Review - The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas Fox Theatre