Productions1 on Broadway
| 1994 | Lunt-Fontanne Theatre Original. May 10, 1994 · Peter Masterson, Tommy Tune | 16 performances |
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Licensing 1 entry
| US | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
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In the literature16 passages
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. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p59
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… book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p146
A sequel, The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public, ran for only two weeks in May 1994. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p69
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 book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p116
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… book:the-complete-book-of-1930s-broadway-musicals-dietz-dan-rowman-littlefield-publis#p312
The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public was the sequel to the hit The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, and clearly the lessons of the Sequel Curse (with such infamous examples as Of Thee I Sing/Let ’Em Eat Cake, Bye Bye Birdie/Bring Back Birdie, and Annie/Annie 2: Miss Hannigan’s Revenge) weren’t learned, and so the gar… book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p177
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