The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

• Original Off-Broadway Production (1978)
  New York, NY
• Broadway Production (1978)
  New York, NY
• Houston Production (1979)
  Houston, TX
• 1st National Tour (1979)
• 2nd National Tour (1980)
• 3rd National Tour (1980)
• London Production (1981)
  London, England
• Boston Production (1982)
  Boston, MA
• Broadway Return Engagement (1982)
  New York, NY
• Film Version (1982)
• Non-Equity Tour (1993)
• Touring Revival (2001)
• Actors Fund Concert (2006)
  New York, NY
• London Fringe Production (2011)
  London, England
• Broadway Revival (2016) [rumored]
  New York, NY

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Original score

• Prologue
• Twenty Fans
• A Lil' Ole Bitty Pissant Country Place
• Girl, You're a Woman
• Watch Dog Theme
  • aka Watchdog Report [no note]
• Texas Has a Whorehouse in It
• Twenty-Four Hours of Lovin'
• Doatsy Mae
• The Angelette March
• The Aggie Song [i]
• The Bus From Amarillo
• Sidestep, The
• No Lies
• Good Old Girl
• Hard Candy Christmas

Cut prior to opening

• The Aggie Song [ii]
• Keepin' Books
• Memory Song
• Two Blocks from the Capitol Building
• Goddam Everything
  • aka Goddamn Everything [no note]

Added to film version

• Sneakin' Around
• I Will Always Love You
• Courtyard Shag

Cut from film version

• Where Stallions Run

Added to Houston Run

• Lonely at the Top

Added to 2001 Tour

• A Friend to Me

• Demo Recording [audio]

Based on a story by Larry L. King

It is the late 1970s, and a brothel has been operating outside of fictional Gilbert, Texas, (subbing for real locale La Grange) for more than a century. It is under the proprietorship of Miss Mona Stangley, having been left to her by the original owner. While taking care of her girls, she is also on good terms with the local sheriff, Ed Earl Dodd. When crusading television reporter Melvin P. Thorpe (based on real-life Houston news personality Marvin Zindler) decides to make the illegal activity an issue, political ramifications cause the place to be closed down.