The collection also includes material related to the short-lived Broadway run of the 1994 sequel "The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public." Glynn donated a shirt she wore during the Broadway production, as well as a hand-made quilt that was constructed and given to her as a gift by the younger actresses in the production. Glynn won a Tony Award for her performance in the Broadway production, and the show was nominated for best musical, best book of a musical, best direction and best choreography. "The collection highlights the wonderful ways in which the Ransom Center's theater and film collections intersect, illuminating both industries."
"'The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas' was a huge hit, and thanks to Carlin Glynn and Peter Masterson, who saved their scripts, production materials and memorabilia, scholars will be able to understand why the show was so successful," said Helen Adair, associate curator for performing arts at the Ransom Center. The collection tracks the musical from its genesis to its stage performance and film adaptation through multiple versions of the stage and film script, publicity photographs, correspondence and financial documents related to the premiere, documents related to the West End production and other touring productions and correspondence related to the development of the film script.
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"The Harry Ransom Center is the leading theatrical and cinematic archive and will display our work properly so that it may be of value to future generations." "We chose the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin to house our film and theatrical works and memorabilia, as so much of it is fueled by our Texas roots," said Glynn and Masterson. The show ran for more than 1,500 performances on Broadway, toured extensively and was adapted to film in 1982. The stage musical starred Glynn as Mona Stangley, the owner of a brothel in the fictional town of Gilbert, Texas. Carol Hall wrote the lyrics for the musical. The musical was directed by Masterson, who also co-authored the book with Larry L. The collection consists of eight document boxes of materials, half of which relate to the 1978 musical. The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has acquired a collection of materials from husband-wife duo actress Carlin Glynn and writer and director Peter Masterson relating to their careers and their work on the original Broadway production and film of "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas." She’s fine, but we’re in trouble when she sings “The Bus From Amarillo.” By placing the song as the show’s finale instead of the first-act closing song, director Catherine Gallagher throws the musical off-center, since Whorehouse must end with Hall’s “Hard Candy Christmas.News Release - Aug"The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" Collection Donated to Ransom Center The no-nonsense madam Miss Mona is played by Hope Anthony, here in her only role. Confusion reigns and the suspension of disbelief dips lower than most ladies’ cleavage. One song is sung by the wrong character and “The Aggie Song,” in which a football team gathers at the Chicken Ranch to celebrate, is performed by four actors, all of whom we see too many times.
At 15 members (plus a four-member band), the cast is too small, spoiling attempts at double- and triple-casting.
Whenever a community theater mounts the show, I figure the company has the talent, tenacity and, in the lingo of a whore, the balls to make the show work.īut a new production at the McKeesport Little Theater has too much working against its ambition. King and a poignant, rollicking score by Carol Hall, Whorehouse somehow remains an underrated work. Boasting a sharp, sassy book by Peter Masterson and Larry L. The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas is based on the true story of a legendary Texas brothel that operated from the 1840s to 1973. Whenever a whorehouse opens in town, I am the first in line.
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