Additional Auditions: Best Little Whorehouse in TX

Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre announces additional auditions for their July production of “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” for these specific roles:

  • Aggie Boys/Male Ensemble and Aggie Swings (18-35, all races and body types, good singers and good movers to great dancers, baritones and tenors, B2-C4/F#4)
    • Song to know: The Chorus of 20 Fans
  • Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd UNDERSTUDY (lead male, 40-65, country baritone, G2-F4) The sheriff of Gilbert, Texas, where the Chicken Ranch resides, Ed Earl is a good ol’ boy at heart who rules the town in a no-nonsense way, but has a soft spot for Mona and the Chicken Ranch as he and Mona used to be an item when he frequented the business himself in his younger days. When the media turns the spotlight on his little town, the swearing sheriff of Lanville County is in over his head with the new technology and media sensationalism that twists his words and actions and turns them on Mona and the Chicken Ranch in an effort to shut them down. A strong comic actor with good timing who can carry a tune.
    • Song to Know: Good Old Girl
  • Melvin P. Thorpe UNDERSTUDY (supporting male, 35-60, character baritenor, B♭2-F4)The host of the televised “Watchdog Report News” who exposes hypocrisy and evil on all levels becomes a menace when he shines his spotlight on the goings-on at Mona’s Chicken Ranch and uses his platform to shut the century-old business down. Sleazy, smarmy, yet charismatic in that weird televangelist way, he sees himself as a stalwart, objective, morally superior mix of Billy Graham crossed with Walter Cronkite. A strong comic actor with the personality to carry a showstopping musical number.
    • Song to Know: Texas Has a Whorehouse in It

UNDERSTUDIES ARE GUARANTEED ONE PERFORMANCE

Performance Dates are June 26-29; July 3,5,6; July 10-13, July16-19

Dates/Locations

Additional auditions for ASGT’s production of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas will be held at Anne Arundel Community College Anne Arundel Community College (CADE 124) [Map] on:

  • Saturday, March 1, 2025 from 11:00-1:00 pm – sign up for audition slot below

Please arrive 15 to 30 minutes prior to your audition, if possible. Video auditions will be accepted if you are unable to audition in-person.

For more information, music, or for video audition requirements, contact Pat Browning, Production Director, at production@summergarden.com.

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All roles are unpaid and non-equity. ASGT is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Actors of all sizes, body types, races, ethnicities, gender identities, abilities, and experience levels are encouraged to audition. No roles are precast, all roles are available. Age ranges are not literal, but what actors can convincingly play on stage. Housing is not provided.

The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

Book by Larry L. King and Peter Masterson
Music and Lyrics by Carol Hall
Based on a story by Larry L. King

Director: Mark Briner
Choreographer: Becca Vourvoulas

Production Manager: Sally Lockley
Stage Manager: TBD

It’s just a little bitty piss ant country place, but there’s nothing dirty going on at the Chicken Ranch. The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas is based on a true story about a “pleasure palace” that peacefully coexisted with the denizens of Gilbert, Texas, a well-known but little talked about institution for the better part since the 1850s, until a trouble-making televangelist made it his personal vendetta to shut the establishment down. With a great hand-clapping, toe-tapping country music score by Carol Hall and a laugh out loud script by Larry Masterson, the tale of the Miss Mona and her girls is an audience favorite that is both bawdy yet wholesome, a red-blooded American musical with showstopping song and dance numbers. This colorful story has messages about family, loyalty, tradition, and the evils of the media along the way, issues we still struggle with today. Anyone familiar with the popular Dolly Parton/Burt Reynolds movie, leave those biases at the door. The musical has many more characters, more music, a richer story, and so much more heart and gentility than the movie allows. This is a great show for colorful character actors with lots of big dancing for both the ladies of the Chicken Ranch and as well as a showstopping clog dancing number for the Aggie boys who win the College Bowl football game. This happy-go-lucky view of small-town vice and statewide political side-stepping recounts the good times and the demise of the Chicken Ranch. Governors, senators, mayors, and even victorious college football teams frequent Miss Mona’s cozy bordello, until that right wing nemesis Watchdog Melvin P. Thorpe focuses his television cameras and his righteous indignation on the institution on a national platform.

All roles are open. Housing and stipends will not be provided.

All future communication regarding the status of auditions, callbacks, and a dance video submission will be emailed by the production manager, Sally Lockley (slockley@summergarden.com).

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