Not sure I can agree with you. We saw Ms Ann-Margret in it, in Chicago. Though a beautiful woman, the show just sucked! I think it must have been really bad direction, set design and costumes.
shareI wish the Chicken ranch girls were more than just extras in the movie.
I saw Ann-Margret in the show in Indy and I really enjoyed it.
I agree! Most don't even have speaking lines, except for one or two (wish I knew which actress played which girl)...and we also don't know the names of all the girls.
shareThe movie suffered from "Hollywood-Itis"...cast with big names instead of people right for the roles in an attempt to make the vehicle box office friendly. The movie is definitely a "cleaned up" version of the stage show, cleaned up the same way they "cleaned up" GREASE for the big screen. The play was a lot raunchier as was the play of WHOREHOUSE.
shareI recently read "None But a Blockhead: On Being a Writer" by Larry L. King, the original author of "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" and he agrees with you. He calls it "that dreadful Whorehouse movie" and says:
"I originally was elated to learn that my good name would not be on such a piece of poo-poo as I imagined Universal capable of producing and as, indeed, Universal ultimately did produce."
Both dolly and burt were to younger than the parts they were playing.
sharei don't like how they cut out the entire roles of the shy, angel, and the other girls.
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I know, most don't even have speaking lines and the few that do only say one or 2 sentences at most.
shareI enjoyed both the film and the stage versions of this show. It is just pure joy to watch. I also saw Ann Margaret in the production in San Francisco. She was the weakest part of the show. NOT that she is bad at what she does....NO, this type of show was not her cup of tea.
shareI agree with you, unkletim. Ann Margret wasn't well cast in the stage version. Perhaps if the role of Mona had been as meaty as it was in the film, she would've been better suited for the role.
sparrow-23, Larry L. King has been griping about the film since before it was even released -- and he bad-mouths it every chance he gets. He wrote the original script then got pissed that the studio kept demanding rewrites. He bitched and moaned about Dolly Parton being cast and whined when she included original songs; he challenged Burt Reynolds to a fistfight (dunno what ever came of that, but it made it into the Associated Press), and he continues to mention his hatred of the film at any/every given opportunity. I've read a couple of his books and several interviews -- he comes off every bit as egocentric as Melvin P. Thorpe/Marvin Zindler.
I wonder why he didn't like Dolly Parton, she seems made for this role whether it suffered from "Hollywood-itis" or not. I can understand that term applying to Burt Reynolds though but he did well at playing the smug sheriff; I'd rather see him than some unknown stage actor. He sings just as well as the sheriff in the play recording; much of that cast wasn't even very good vocally. Maybe Burt and Dolly were younger than the characters in the play but the movie is just an adaptation and doesn't have to be 100% similar in every way. If it were, there'd be no point of it. As an adaptation, I'd say the cast was perfect for their movie roles. Maybe they wouldn't work well on stage but they worked well here.
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shareThe stage show is alot better than the movie and I'm not just saying that because I'm in a production of it. The other songs that are in the show that were cut from the movie are really good and there's not alot of focus on just Mona in the stage show like in the movie and plus Jewel has a solo, Doatsey Mae has a solo, the Aggie song is longer. There were characters that were cut from the movie that make more sense to have in the show especially with Pissant Country Place, to me in the movie it made sense but the rules section really didn't but on stage it does because Mona and the girls are telling the two new girls how it goes in the Chicken Ranch.
shareI like the musical better also. I liked how they got more personal with the girls instead of making it all about miss mona and ed earl. I liked Shy and Angel and all the girls they brought to life in the stage play, the girls were merely just background characters in the film, sadly.
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