The run closed May 22, 1994
- Opened
- May 10, 1994
- Closed
- May 22, 1994
- Performances
- 16
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Of the 368 productions we hold that opened in the 1990s and record a performance count, this is the 307th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it24 named
Kevin Cooney
David Doty
Gina Torres
Gerry Burkhardt
Laurel Lynn Collins
Sally Mae Dunn
Pamela Everett
Tom Flagg
Ganine Giorgione
Joe Hart
Amy N Heggins
Mark Manley
Mary Frances Mccatty
Louise Ruck
Jillana Urbina
Theara J Ward
Christina Youngman
7 of these 24 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 17 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters9 roles recorded
Dee Hoty Mona Stangley
Scott Holmes Sam Dallas
Ronn Carroll A. Harry Hardast
Kevin Cooney I. R. S. Director
Jim David The Comedian
David Doty President / Schmidt / B.S. Bullehit
Gina Torres Terri Clark
Danny Rutigliano Ralph J. Bostick
Pamela Everett Lotta Lovingood
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Creative team
- Director
- Peter Masterson, Tommy Tune
- Choreographer
- Jeff Calhoun
- Orchestrations
- Peter Matz
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Around this production
The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public is a musical with a book by Larry L. King and Peter Masterson and music and lyrics by Carol Hall. It is a sequel to the 1978 musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.
The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public opened at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on May 10, 1994 and closed on May 21, 1994. The Complete Book of 1990s Broadway Musicals Dan Dietz Paxton Mcnallie 2016 Rowm, p. 176
- In 1994, Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public (a sequel to the hit musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas) went nowhere, running for only 15 performances despite the presence of classy Dee Hoty. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 59
- Tommy Tune had subsequent successes with A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine, the stunning Nine, and a ninth-inning save taking over as director of My One and Only. After another out-of-town turnaround with Grand Hotel, where nearly every song was either replaced or entirely restaged during its Boston run, and th… Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 146
- A sequel, The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public, ran for only two weeks in May 1994. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 69
- Sixteen years later the same group of Texans cantered into town with The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public (1994)—Cavetis Sequellus, which is to say Beware of Sequels—and the folks back at the More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 116
- Let ’Em Eat Cake was one of the first musicals to suffer from sequelitis, a theatrical disease for which there is seemingly no known cure. Cake followed the enormously popular and successful Of Thee I Sing, but couldn’t manage more than three months on Broadway, and as the decades went by a number of hit musicals spawn… The Complete Book of 1930s Broadway Musicals Dietz Dan Rowman Littlefield Publis, p. 312
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.