THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS movie

The ABC broadcast version had an extra song for Burt Reynolds that has never been on any home video release.

And the first time many of us "I will always love you." I thought it was a great movie.

^^^ many of us HEARD....

I love that cheesy movie!

Texas, has a whore house in it. LORD HAVE MERCY ON OUR SOULS.

I remember seeing this as a young gayling and getting aroused by the football locker room scene.

Now watching it as a near eldergay, they all loop like a bunch of homos. Especially that ginger power bottom.

Hard Candy Christmas always makes me teary.

I love the Texas A&M Faggies football team.

Zay is hirink?

That football locker room scene is the moment that many of us discovered that we were gay.

I saw the original Broadway production. The set design was incredible, its backdrop was a huge, silhouetted "tic-tac-toe" frame, each square representing a girl's room.

The movie is one of my guilty pleasures, though it breaks my heart to think back on what fate had in store for the delightful, hard-stomping Aggie dancers-and us - the film was released in 1982.

Those Aggies are all dead.

I saw it on Broadway with the original cast. It was fantastic. I saw the movie and hated it. The show had a simple country flavor, great music and a gentle, realistic quality. The movie was a loud garish train wreck. The orchestrations were changed, "opened up", and most of the music was ruined. Just listen to the original cast album and you'll know what's missing. Almost all the actors are miscast with Burt doing his usual smarmy self, and his godawful gay manhags, the never funny Dom DeLuise, and the grating Jim Nabors. The only one who nails it is Charles Durning, who is just great in his small part. Even Dolly, who I love, is not really right as Miss Mona. I had such high hopes as it was directed by (the very gay) Colin Higgins, who had just made the fantastic 9 to 5 with Dolly. Even the costumes are tacky with Dolly looking like an overstuffed neon Mardi Gras turkey. I have tried to warm up to the film over the years and it doesn't work for me.

I saw it on broadway starring Miss Fannie Flagg and loved it. Dolly was hot after 9 to 5 and was given a lot of artistic control. She wanted Burt as her leading man. She wanted I Will Always Love You added to the score. She wanted Colin to direct. And the movie flopped at the box office.

[quote]I saw it on broadway starring Miss Fannie Flagg and loved it.

She sings?

Charles Durning totally earned his best supporting Oscar nomination, though I thought Robert Preston (Victor/ Victoria) should have won that year.

A few good songs from the show were not used in the movie. "The Bus From Amarillo" is very pretty, and the ensemble numbers for the girls that weren't used sound pretty good. I've never seen it on the stage (or any bootlegs), but the OBC album is pretty good although I tend to forget about it when I talk about lively, peppy Broadway musicals. I'd love to see the Ann-Margret revival even though friends who saw it on tour said it was pretty bad.

When Splash had Musical Monday's they showed the COMPLETE Aggie dance, which was about ten minutes longer! I was amazed! I had a boyfriend who was in the Original Broadway cast and every month he would get residuals for NOT being in the movie. LOL. Also, when the show was nominated for the Tony they would Beep out "Whore", and many of the words in the Aggie song to make it seem more racy. In Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, they renamed the show "The Best Little Whoopie in Texas"

I remember being at work and writing "The Best Little Who House in Texas" (the Dr. Seuss version?) just in case someone was monitoring my E-Mails or spreadsheets or word documents. I had listings of programs and CD's I had but that was the only one I considered a little risky....

R17 I remember on NY 1 with "The Mother Fucker w/the Green Hat", they kept the bad word out and either Roma Torey or Donna Karger said "it contains a word we're not allowed to use...." I thought they were cool for acknowledging that.

Pay day can get a little rowdy. But there’s nothing dirty goin’ on!

That's my Madame!

I was in a local community theater version of the show and later saw the tour version with Ann-Margret and Gary Sandy which was faithful to the original. Unfortunately the show I saw was on September 12, 2001. No one was in the mood for a musical that night and the house was less than half full. Ann-Margret was a trooper and tried her best though.

[quote] Ann-Margret was a trooper and tried her best though.

Unless she was in the highway patrol, she was a TROUPER.

Sorry, yes, trouper. My bad.

R22 I guess the audience who had tickets said, "Bye Bye Birdie....."

r23 Trouper, sure enough, but she could've been a trooper as well. A trooper is a reliable and uncomplaining person.

Did any here see Anita Morris on Broadway as Miss Mona?

r12...I totally agree about the overblown mess. It happens to a lot of film versions of musicals. Look at Annie...another overblown mess with an all star cast.

It was a shitshow. The only amusing moments were Dom DeLuise.

The Broadway version of the song is simpler (only 8 performers), and I prefer it. Another case where making it 'bigger' for film does not improve it.

It's also interesting to see how the song was edited for TV (in 1979).

The movie wasn't a flop. It was one of the top ten grossing films of the year and one of the top ten grossing musicals of all time for a number of years. You're getting it confused with her follow up Rhinestone, which did tank.

Dolly was offered Educating Rita. The part was written with her in mind, but when she declined, they changed the character to British and cast Julie Walters.

r31...so much wrong with your statement. I would hardly call 60 million (to date) against a 35 million budget a hit...at best it broke even. And NO, Educating Rita was not written with Dolly Parton in mind. Columbia Pictures wanted them to cast Dolly because of her success in 9-5 and the director and writer refused.

^^^AND Educating Rita was a play first.

R32 By 1982 figures it was a box office smash. A flop isn't one of the top ten grossing movies of the year. It also doesn't make the top ten grossing movie musicals of all time list as well.

Dolly's one of those rare performers where they're always good even if the material is beneath them. She's just so much fun to watch. She was even good in that awful Joyful Noise movie. I'd love for her to have one or two more great movie roles before she passes away.

The movie was a big hit. It grossed $70m in the US alone and opened at #1 in its debut week. It did so well its opening weekend that it became the biggest opening for an R rated movie.

Its box office is equivalent to $188m today.

r32, I don't know where you're getting your numbers from, but Box Office Mojo shows a final domestic gross of $69.75 million, not $60 M. So that's just domestic, not even counting international grosses.

Here's the "Aggie Song Reconstructed"...It's the almost 8 minute version of the song from the movie.

I saw this when it was released. God, what a shitty movie.

R5 I saw the stage musical in Vegas in days of yore. That song was unbelievably hot in the (literal) flesh.

I saw that same tour, R22. Her stage presence lit that theater UP.

The musical is good. And, one of the first written by a woman. It should have won the Tony.

The film took all the heart from the show, however. Dotsy Mae and Bus From Amorillo are two of the best songs in the show, and both very emotional numbers, are both cut. Same with “Girl, Your A Woman”.

I did like the film until I heard the original soundtrack and then the film was ruined for me. I would like to see the show done agian, but I worry that its use of country music would make it seem to “Branson-y” for the East Coast musical going crowd.

SEEING THIS MOVIE NOW, it looks soooooo cheesy and pretty slutty/trashy...

the only good parts are 1) seeing burt in a tiny black bikini if albeit only for a few quick seconds... 2) the locker room scene of naked showering and jockstraps worn 3) seeing dolly in that silver dress she is literally bursting out of as she makes her way down the steps to greet the horny college team and you know they would all be rock hard erect in their pants seeing dolly's huge jugs presented like that 4) seeing some of the hunks having sex and "caught" doing so by the weirdo evangelist played by dom deluise and his camera crew 5) seeing that REALLY HANDSOME HAIRY CHESTED dark haired hunk in the open pink shirt riding on the outside of the truck as they make their way to the whorehouse and the best looking feathered hair blond guy later in the yard dancing....

I absolutely loved Durning in this. And the sidestep song was a riot for a politician.

🎵 Ooooooooooh, I love to dance a lil sidestep....🎵

I worked a high school job in a movie theater the summer this came out. It wasn't a flop if my theater was any indication. Pretty much every showing for weeks was a sellout. It was one of our biggest movies that summer.