Best Little ___ house in Texas revival?- Page 2

[morosco]

Posted: 9/18/10 at 3:15pm

Andrea McArdle as Doatsy Mae
Best Little Whorehouse - Doatsy Mae

[jamiekennywicked]

Posted: 9/18/10 at 4:42pm

Big favor, can someone post the full synopsis including which songs go where?

[chiuptown]

Posted: 9/19/10 at 7:29am

Thanks Morosco, that was sensational. God i love her. I saw the national tour at the Shubert in Chicago, with Alexis Smith as Mona.

[madbrian]

Posted: 9/19/10 at 8:08am

Jeez, but Andrea McArdle can sing.

[morosco]

Posted: 9/19/10 at 11:11am

I saw the national tour at the Shubert in Chicago, with Alexis Smith as Mona.

I saw that tour as well and I had completely forgotten that Alexis Smith was the star.

[TimesSquared]

Posted: 9/19/10 at 12:13pm

New in Town is right. People who never saw the show as it was originally directed probably don't realize that the direction was the real star of the show.

The book and score are mediocre at best, but the ingenious Tommy Tune direction and choreography made it really entertaining. The movie includes none of that.

Remember the Aggie cheerleaders, each strapped to cutouts of two more cheerleaders with pink balloons in their halters, the flashlight choreography of the Melvin Thorpe singers?

The one possible problem is that the show was very transgressive in 1978. Part of the show's charm was prostitution presented as romantic, small town, Americana. Today...?

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 9/19/10 at 2:55pm

What about Sandy Duncan or Betty Lynn as Mona?

[tazber]

Posted: 9/19/10 at 3:02pm

Aww, I love the score TimesSquared. I think they cut out some of the best songs for the movie though (Girl, You're A Woman and Doatsy Mae).

Never seen the show live, but I wasn't a huge fan of the movie.