The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, 1978

The run closed March 27, 1982

Opened

June 19, 1978

Closed

March 27, 1982

Performances

1,584

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Entermedia Theatre

Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and carry 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

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
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
Rebecca Seay
Karen Sutherland

15 of these 59 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 44 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.

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

Recordings 2 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.

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.
• No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
• Which of the 2 recordings of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas document this run, if any.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.