Whorehouse? — Page 2

Well, Beverly D'Angelo was in the Hair movie. And in all four days of Rockabye Hamlet.

But more importantly -- she played country music singer Lurleen Lumpkin on The Simpsons. What more proof do we need?

"Ann-Margret had suffered an injury in a motorcycle accident which limited her ability to move around and dance, etc. I believe that the problem with her performance was due to that and lousy direction overall. It was a cheap looking production. Even 'The Aggie Song' never came to life."

Another problem with her performance was the fact that she never opened her mouth. She was the only actor employed with a Rent-esque mouth-mike. Her speech was slurred and unintelligible. Add that to her stumbling around the stage and tripping on the stairs and I doubt it had to do with a motorcycle accident unless she was given a hefty prescription of painkillers. Roxie Lucas was the shining light of the entire production. It's too bad she had so little to do. She would be another good candidate for Mona.

Oh yeah, and please cut A Friend to Me. It's so dull and pointless. Good Old Girl tells us what we need to know and the relationship is peripheral to the plot. We don't need a slow forgettable ballad immediately following two much stronger memorable ballads just before the finale. All of which deal with friendship and/or departure. It's redundancy at its worst.

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How about Mary Stuart Masterson... since her mother was the (Tony-winning) original "Mona," and her father directed the Broadway show.

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Oh... I suppose. Depends on how young she was when she started at the ranch.

Personally, I like Reba the best for this.

Or how about Tricia Yearwood?

EDIT: Or how about Becky Ann Baker? She was the original Ruby Rae, and she played Mona when I did the show... and she's fan-friggin-tastic in the part!

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Updated On: 6/6/06 at 12:57 PM

It's been 2 decades since her accident. Maybe she's addicted to pain-killers

Her fall from the stage in Vegas was in 1972 and she kept performing on stage for over 20 years before her Whorehouse tour, so I doubt that had anything to do with it.

The tour began after two months of recovery from her motorcycle accident and I saw her four months into the run. I sincerely doubt that if her injuries were bad enough to cause her to sway and stumble through a performance after almost seven months of recovery and four months of performances that she would have been up to a 30-city 18-month national tour of 8 shows a week. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm not convinced the director or her doctors would permit her to begin performing such a rigorous schedule for such a long period of time unless she was fully healed.

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If we're going with "non-names" like Becky Ann Baker, I stand by my Debra Monk idea.

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Becky Ann Baker and Debra Monk are only no names to people who don`t know a thing about theatre! They are big names on b`way!

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They will here in NYC where the show would play and people would know them!

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Julia Roberts as Miss Mona. It won't matter if she can sing or not since the audience would only be attending to see Ms Roberts and not the show.

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Beverly D'Angelo also sang her own songs as Patsy Cline in "Coal Miner's Daughter."

I love the idea of Debra Mnk!