How About a Revival of THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS?
How About a Revival of THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS?
#1How About a Revival of THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS?
Posted: 3/12/08 at 5:16pmI've been listening a lot to "Bus From Amarillo" and "Hard Candy Christmas" lately as well as watching those great clips posted on the forbidden site. It all makes me wish that BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS had a top-notch Broadway revival with a fantastic actress/singer as Miss Mona. What do you guys think? Any casting ideas? Who could direct?
#2re: How About a Revival of THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS?
Posted: 3/12/08 at 5:25pmReba as Miss Mona
#2re: How About a Revival of THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS?
Posted: 3/12/08 at 5:29pmI love this show and so did New York on its original run. Go Reba!
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Posted: 3/12/08 at 5:45pmOnly if they include "A Friend to Me". I'm still upset that Reba wasn't considered for the South Pacific revival. It's clear she's not what they were looking for, but still...
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Posted: 3/12/08 at 5:52pmReba would be perfect for this!
Flaunt It
Broadway Star Joined: 10/26/05
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Posted: 3/12/08 at 8:12pm
I would LOVE Reba in this.. but would also love to see someone a little younger in the role like a Sherri Rene Scott.
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Posted: 3/12/08 at 8:26pm
There is, i guess no real age limit on this part? When the Broadway production came to London in 1981, the wonderful Carlin Glynn took away the award for Best Actress In a Musical that year. A brilliant production that i saw 3 times.
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
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Posted: 3/12/08 at 10:13pm
Only one person was born to play this role.
Reba McEntire.
She can bring things to the role that never existed before.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Original Broadway Revival Cast Recording crosses over into the Country music charts due to her involvement with it.
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Posted: 3/12/08 at 10:16pmBarry and Fran are you listening?
Tom148502
Featured Actor Joined: 5/21/07
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Posted: 3/12/08 at 10:23pm
Reba would be perfect for the role and I'm all for a revival of this great show that I first saw Off-Broadway and twice after it moved to Broadway. While it's not all that apparent from the cast recording, the role of the Sheriff is key and care should be taken not to base the casting on the way the role was screwed up in the motion picture. Come to think of it, aside from the Aggie scene everything about the film was screwed up 
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
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Posted: 3/12/08 at 10:55pm
Reba's said that she doesn't want to return as a replacement or in a revival. However, I would like to see her return as Mona.
And if they are going to use "A Friend to Me" it needs to be put at the end of Act I. It fits the action better there.
zooxanthellae
Broadway Star Joined: 6/2/07
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Posted: 3/12/08 at 11:08pmI would be very interested to see this if Reba is involved! I'd love Reba to be in anything, I just want her to come back to Broadway!
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
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Posted: 3/12/08 at 11:51pmWasn't the original end with Bus from Amarillo with the girls leaving and the bad guys celebrating the closing of the Chicken Ranch? That has to be one of my favorite endings in a musical, ever. I hope they could leave that.
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
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Posted: 3/12/08 at 11:53pm
Yea, the original, by the time it opened, had Bus For Amarillo as the closing song. The girls had left. Mona sings it alone on stage.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
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Posted: 3/12/08 at 11:56pm
Oh...I don't know why I have the image of her singing while the girls cross with suitcases in the background and the bad guys celebrate on top of that wooden structure. May be another production.
Just imagine all those shirtless hunks dancing the Aggie song...can it open now???
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
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Posted: 3/13/08 at 12:00am
blaxx-
That's actually a really neat staging idea...
A Director
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/18/07
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Posted: 3/13/08 at 2:17amLet's not have a revival of this awful show. The material is dated! "Girl You're A Woman Now" has such a wonderful message. the way to become a woman is to become a whore!
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
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Posted: 3/13/08 at 2:30amYou're dated! hmph!
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Posted: 3/13/08 at 5:35amSo that would make Rent dated as well, cause only the dead Hooker comes back to life!!
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Posted: 3/13/08 at 7:53am
"Come to think of it, aside from the Aggie scene everything about the film was screwed up"
I thought Charles Durnings turn doing "The Side Step" was fun - especially considering how bad everything else was.
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Posted: 3/13/08 at 9:06am
This show is nothing but a good time! I love it.
And yea, Reba would be perfection as Mona.
Who for the sheriff?
Flaunt It
Broadway Star Joined: 10/26/05
#21re: How About a Revival of THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS?
Posted: 3/13/08 at 9:30amHow about Tom Wopat or John Schneider?
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