How About a Revival of THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS?

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How About a Revival of THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS?

Posted: 3/12/08 at 5:16pm

I'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?

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Posted: 3/12/08 at 5:25pm

Reba as Miss Mona

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Posted: 3/12/08 at 5:29pm

I love this show and so did New York on its original run. Go Reba!

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Posted: 3/12/08 at 5:45pm

Only 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 5:52pm

Reba would be perfect for this!

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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.

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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 10:16pm

Barry and Fran are you listening?

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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

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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.

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Posted: 3/12/08 at 11:08pm

I 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!

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Posted: 3/12/08 at 11:51pm

Wasn'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.

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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.

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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???

Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE

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Posted: 3/13/08 at 12:00am

blaxx-
That's actually a really neat staging idea...

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Posted: 3/13/08 at 2:17am

Let'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!

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Posted: 3/13/08 at 2:30am

You're dated! hmph!

Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE

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Posted: 3/13/08 at 5:35am

So 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?

....but the world goes 'round

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Posted: 3/13/08 at 9:30am

How about Tom Wopat or John Schneider?

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