WHOREHOUSE to be next Actor's Fund Show!

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WHOREHOUSE to be next Actor's Fund Show!

Posted: 4/25/06 at 12:08pm

I love it! And think of all those Broadway whores they can cast - I mean cast as the whores! Reba as Mona, please!


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Updated On: 4/25/06 at 12:08 PM

#2

re: WHOREHOUSE to be next Actor's Fund Show!

Posted: 4/25/06 at 12:13pm

One of my favorite shows back in the day but I didn't care for the Ann-Margret tour a few years ago. That one was poorly directed/staged and not a lot of fun. I didn't like the movie either since they got rid of most of the score. Maybe someone will stage a good revival of this if the Actors Fund Show is well received.

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#3

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Posted: 4/25/06 at 12:15pm

Well Ann Margaret came across as an 85 year old woman in that show. Olivia De Havilland would have been more spritely in the role.

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Posted: 4/25/06 at 12:20pm

too bad they aren't doing TBLWGP...I'd pay a lot to see that!

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Posted: 4/25/06 at 12:21pm

Didn't they mount a production with Sally Struthers at one point?

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Posted: 4/25/06 at 12:21pm

Why am I not surprised by that last statement?!

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#7

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Posted: 4/25/06 at 12:27pm

Soooo excited! It's one of my fav. shows and it'll be exciting to see who they cast!

Cheers,

Christopher

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#8

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Posted: 4/25/06 at 12:38pm

Someone call Reba NOW!

#9

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Posted: 4/25/06 at 1:05pm

I saw Ann-Margret in that tour as well and was terribly disappointed. She gave the impression she'd never performed in front of an audience before, which I know wasn't true. I know she had recently hurt her wrist (she wore a splint in the show), so I figured perhaps her poor performance had something to do with that.

She went up on her lyrics several times and futilely looked to the others for help, most of whom shrugged her off. It was a train wreck.

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#10

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Posted: 4/25/06 at 1:08pm

Oh, if only they'd do the different Monas for different scenes...or at least BEG Dolly to come do it or make a special appearance.

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Posted: 4/25/06 at 1:16pm

Sally Struthers as Miss Mona.

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#12

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Posted: 4/25/06 at 1:19pm

I saw this show during its original run and loved the score. Can't wait to hear "Hard Candy Christmas" with a big all-star chorus.

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Posted: 4/25/06 at 1:29pm

Well you know Lillias White is going to play Jewel...

#14

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Posted: 4/25/06 at 1:37pm

Maybe they can get Marvin Zindler to play himself. He's still on the air, you know.

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Posted: 4/25/06 at 1:39pm

I did the show a LONG while back with Becky Ann Baker (aka Becky Gelke) from the original cast. She was fantastic (no surprise there).

It's such a fun show to do, and a huge crowd-pleaser!

...and much better than the film (which isn't exactly God-awful, but nowhere near as good as the stage show).

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#16

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Posted: 4/25/06 at 1:39pm

Lillias White for Mona!

#17

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Posted: 4/25/06 at 1:40pm

and Rebecca Luker as Jewel...

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Posted: 4/25/06 at 1:43pm

Becky told me she had to go on one time (during the Broadway run) as Jewel! All the understudies were out. Musta been a hoot to see that white girl do "24 Hours of Lovin'."

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Posted: 4/25/06 at 1:57pm

"Well Ann Margaret came across as an 85 year old woman in that show. Olivia De Havilland would have been more spritely in the role."

Michael Bennett, you've made my day.

~Kev

#20

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Posted: 4/25/06 at 2:10pm

I really don't care for this show, but could be because I saw a horrible production of it at The Darien Dinner Theatre in 1986.

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#21

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Posted: 4/25/06 at 2:46pm

Why not PARADE?

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#22

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Posted: 4/25/06 at 2:52pm

PARADE was on Broadway less than ten years ago. Plus it's a real downer and features lots of nasty children. They would raise about 15 dollars for BCEFA if they did that show.

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Posted: 4/25/06 at 4:26pm

But it's GORGEOUS!! I'd pay $20

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#24

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Posted: 4/25/06 at 4:29pm

I think I need a towel! This news just got me all kinds of excited. I will be there come hell or high water!

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#25

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Posted: 4/25/06 at 4:37pm

The WHOREHOUSE score is one of the real gems of its era, full of authentic southern twang and charm and a real story-teller voice in the lyrics. Anyone else love "Doatsey Mae?" A counter-point moment in the show, in which a drabber waitress yearns to be someone else, the number brilliantly placed next to the faded glitter of the Ranch girls. It's a perfect little song. But I love the emotion in the whole score, "Girl, You're a Woman," which Dolly wouldn't knocked dead, didn't even make it into the film.

Dissenting vote: I hope it isn't Reba. Let's try someone else from C&W.

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