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1. BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS SCRIPT MOVIE
2. BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS SCRIPT PLUS
3. BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS SCRIPT SERIES

For a musical comedy-and the play is incredibly funny-the ending is unmistakeably bittersweet, and several poignant moments between the laughs remind the audience (sometimes uncomfortably) that none of the whores are in their particular profession by choice.

BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS SCRIPT SERIES

The narrative serves to present the audience with a series of musical vignettes that are essentially character studies, fleshing out these various types and giving them the illusion of depth and history and dreams even as they unknowingly speed toward an unexpected media circus and everything comes crashing down. Rather, BLWIT is about the people involved there, from the women who work in the brothel, the madam Miss Mona, Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd who protects it, the mayor and townsfolk who are happy enough to support the brothel until media scrutiny turns their way, and the politicians who are happy enough to patronize the brothel one day while condemning it as a moral outrage the next. The play, see, is not about the Chicken Ranch, or the actual closing of the brothel, although that provides the skeleton supporting the play. The "Aggie Angelettes" sequence-more a direct shot at the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders or Kilgore Rangerettes than any pep squad that ever existed at Texas A&M-comes off as bizarre and almost out of place until viewed as part of a thematic whole. The play focuses heavily on the hypocrisy at work as the brothel is attacked by moral crusaders, whilst other more crass forms of vice and sexual exploitation are allowed to flourish across the state. Instead, the play gives the audience subplots involving Amber and Shy, two new arrivals at the Chicken Ranch, who serve as the audience surrogates as we're introduced to this little country whorehouse and the various characters connected to it. There are hints, and a poignant moment toward the end, but don't expect anyone to start singing "Sneaking Around," an embarrassingly bad number that's thankfully restricted to the movie.

BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS SCRIPT MOVIE

First of all, the romance between the sheriff and madam that is such a huge focus of the movie doesn't exist onstage. Even though I know the material backwards and forwards, I have to say it was a treat to see it performed live.įor those of you only familiar with the movie version, be aware that the play differs substantially. King's The Whorehouse Papers, I'd never actually seen the thing live prior to Saturday.

BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS SCRIPT PLUS

I have to confess here, folks, that although I own the Burt and Dolly movie on DVD, the movie soundtrack and the original Broadway cast recording on CD, plus the Samuel French stage script as well as Larry L. But relevant to the events that happened in 1973 and before? Not hardly.Įven so, I was particularly excited about going to Houston this past weekend, in part, to catch the Theatre Under the Stars production of BLWIT at the Hobby Center. If it weren't for the success of the play and movie, the Chicken Ranch would've faded into obscurity long ago, so in that sense the productions are important and very much a part of the overall story. The reason I devote so few pages to BLWIT in the book is simple: It's mostly irrelevant.

I hope to start writing on that next week, if all goes well).

Which is all find and dandy, except that The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas-the Broadway play and motion picture combined-account for a little over one half of one chapter in the book (chapter 13, if you're keeping track at home.

More than a few people seem to assume the majority of my book is devoted to that movie, and they ask if I've interviewed Burt Reynolds or excitedly point out that the house used in the movie is actually in Pflugerville, and that a replica was built on the Universal Studios back lot out in Hollywood. Usually the questions fall into a predictable range, mostly variations on, "Did the madam really look like Dolly Parton?" The answer, for you curious folk, is no, she did not look anything at all like Dolly Parton. Or rather, I haven't written much about it online, because in truth, I've been asked about it plenty. In all the time I've been working on my book about the Chicken Ranch, I've never talked much about The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.