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  • Bandage Size
    Cast Size

    14f, 13m

  • Duration
    Duration

    120 minutes (2 hours)

  • SubGenre
    Subgenre

    Non Applicative

  • Audience
    Target Audience

    Adult, Senior

Accolades

Accolades
  • Winner! 1978 Drama Desk Awards: Outstanding Lyrics & Outstanding Music
    Nominee! 1979 Tony® Awards: Best Musical & Best Book of a Musical
    Nominee! 1981 Olivier Award, Best New Musical
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Summary

This happy-go-lucky view of pocket-sized-town vice and statewide political side-stepping recounts the expert times and the demise of the Chicken Ranch, known since the 1850s equally one of the ameliorate pleasure palaces in all of Texas. Governors, senators, mayors, and even victorious higher football teams frequent Miss Mona'south cozy bordello, until that Puritan nemesis Watchdog focuses his tv set cameras and his righteous indignation on the institution.

History

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas was get-go presented on Broadway by Universal Pictures, at the 46th Street Theatre in New York Metropolis on June xix, 1978. It was directed by Peter Masterson and Tommy Tune and ran in its original production for 1,580 performances.

RIO GRANDE Ring (2-function, Singing Roles)
COWBOYS (Range: T/B)
FARMER (Range: F3-D4 + Ensemble Singing)
SHY Child
MISS WULLA JEAN
TRAVELING SALESMAN
SLICK DUDE
CHOIR
AMBER
SHY
Gem (Range: E3-G5)
MONA STANGLEY (Range: Eb3-E5)
THE GIRLS AT MISS MONA'Due south (Range: G3-E5, sopranos F#5)- Linda Lou, Dawn, Ginger, Beatrice, Taddy Jo, Ruby Rae, Eloise, Durla
ANGEL (Range: Bb3-Bb4)
LEROY SLINEY
THE DOGETTES (Range: SATB)
MELVIN P. THORPE (Bb2-F4) and the MELVIN THORPE SINGERS (SATB)
SOUNDMAN
STAGE MANAGER
SHERIFF ED EARL DODD (G2-F4)
CAMERAMAN
SCRUGGS
MAYOR RUFUS POINDEXTER
EDSEL MACKEY
DOATSEY MAE (G3-C5)
TOWNSPEOPLE
T.Five. ANNOUNCER
ANGELETTE IMOGENE CHARLENE
ANGELETTES
T.Five. COLORMAN
SENATOR WINGWOAH
AGGIES (T/B Range: B2-C4, tenors F#4) - #21, #71, #eleven, #1 the Ukrainian Placekicker, #17, #seven, #12 (specialty trip the light fantastic), #77
PHOTOGRAPHERS
REPORTERS - #i, #2, #3
GOVERNOR (Range: A2-D4) and the GOVERNOR'S Aide

  • Time Period 1970s, 1930s
  • Setting The activeness takes identify in the State of Texas.
  • Features Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes, Elaborate / Loftier Volume Costumes, Period Costumes
  • Boosted Features Local Celebrity Cameo
  • Duration 120 minutes (2 hours)
  • Cautions
    • Alcohol
    • Gun Shots
    • Strong Linguistic communication
    • Mild Adult Themes
    • Nudity/Partial Nudity

Media

"Utterly mannerly, lively and genial." – New York Daily News

"A font of fun and friendliness, engagingly rich in regional nostalgia and spiced with frail bawdry. The country and western score is a please." – Time

"Best Broadway musical of the flavour." – WABC-TV

"Humorous and skillful-natured." – New York Post

Music

Song Samples

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A Lil' Ole Fragmentary Pissant State

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Texas Has a Whorehouse In It

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Twenty Four Hours of Lovin'

one Piano-Conductor Score
30 Vocal Books

Reed (Tenor Saxophone, Piccolo)
Trumpet
Trombone
Drums
Guitar I (Pedal Steel)
Guitar II (Rhythm)
Violin (Doubles on Viola)
Bass

  • Musical StyleClassic Broadway, Country/Western
  • Vocal DemandsModerate
  • Orchestra SizeMedium
  • Chorus SizeMedium

Materials

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1 Piano-Conductor
30 Vocal Books

Reed
Trumpet
Trombone
Drums
Guitar I
Guitar II
Violin
Bass

i Piano-Conductor
xxx Vocal Books

Authors

Carol Hall

Carol Hall

Carol Hall's beginning recorded song was a lullaby called "Jenny Rebecca," initially recorded by Mabel Mercer so past Barbra Streisand. Subsequently, her songs were performed by Tony Bennett, Barbara Melt, Chita Rivera, Reba McIntyre, Cyndi Lauper, RuPaul, Steven Lutvak, Fred ...

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Author

Larry L. Rex

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