The run closed March 27, 1982
- Opened
- April 17, 1978
- Closed
- March 27, 1982
- Performances
- 1,584
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Entermedia Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 13th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas 2 more that season
| 1982 | Eugene Oneill Theatre Return-Engagement · Tommy Tune | 63 perf. |
| 2006 | August Wilson Theatre Revival · Mark S. Hoebee | 1 perf. |
Who was in it59 named
Clinton Allmon
Lisa Brown
Joan Ellis
J Frank Lucas
Louise Quick Bowen
Gerry Burkhardt
Jay Bursky
Tom Cashin
Carol Chambers
Becky Gelke
K C Kelly
Bradley Clayton King
Donna King
Edwina Lewis
Jan Merchant
Edna Milton
Gena Ramsel
James Rich
Marta Sanders
Michael Scott
Monica Tiller
Debra Zalkind
Fannie Flagg
Candace Tovar
Beau Allen
Tom Avera
Roger Berdahl
Valerie Leigh Bixler
Diana Broderick
Jill Cook
Patti D Beck
Cheryl Ebarb
Clare Fields
Betsy Friday
Thomas Griffith
Patrick Hamilton
Peter Heuchling
Tina Johnson
Merilee Magnuson
Barbara Marineau
Stephen Mcnaughton
John Newton
Gene O Neill
Andy Parker
Gil Rogers
Rebecca Seay
Karen Sutherland
12 of these 59 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 47 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.
Characters11 roles recorded
Carlin Glynn Mona Stangley
Henderson Forsythe Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd
Delores Hall Jewel
Clinton Allmon Melvin P. Thorpe
Jay Garner The Governor
Pamela Blair Angel
Joan Ellis Shy
Susan Mansur Doatsey Mae
Jay Garner C.J. Scruggs
J. Frank Lucas Mayor Rufus Poindexter
Richard Kind Senator Wingwoah
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Peter Masterson, Tommy Tune
- Choreographer
- Tommy Tune
- Producer
- Universal Pictures (Stevie Phillips)
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 0 from 2 nominations
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Around this production
- THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS 1,639 performances Opened June 19, 1978; Closed March 27, 1982 Theatre World 2003 04 Season V 60 Willis, p. 292
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 in Texas at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.