VIDEO: 'Inside the Texas Chicken Ranch' Explores THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE's Country Place

By: Jul. 25, 2016
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Broadway theatregoers learned a lot more about the brothel business than they ever thought a musical comedy could teach them when Carol Hall, Peter Masterson and Larry L. King's THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS transferred in from Off-Broadway in 1978.

Four years later, the whole country learned about the infamous Chicken Ranch, when Dolly Parton starred as its proprietor Miss Mona in the film version.

Despite a title that might scare off those of a more conservative nature, THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS has been a favorite all over the country, and earlier this summer, as reported by BroadwayWorld, Kristen Chenoweth led an all-star cast, directed by Rob Ashford in a private industry reading of the show in hopes to assemble a new Broadway revival.

In "Inside the Texas Chicken Ranch: The Definitive Account of the Best Little Whorehouse," released by The History Press on August 1st, Jayme Lynn Blaschke offers an intimate look at place where for more than a century, dirt farmers and big-cigar politicians alike rubbed shoulders. Operated openly under the sheriff's watchful eye, Madam Edna Milton and her girls ran a tight, discreet ship that the God-fearing people of La Grange tolerated if not outright embraced. That is, until a secret conspiracy enlisted an opportunistic reporter to bring it all crashing down on primetime television. Through exclusive interviews with Milton, former government officials and reporters, Blaschke promises a fascinating, revelatory view of the Ranch that illuminates the truth and lies that surround this iconic brothel.

Jayme Lynn Blaschke is the co-author of the photo book "Ghosts of the Chicken Ranch" with Lisa Elliott Blaschke. His fiction has appeared in Interzone, Fast Ships, Black Sails and Cross Plains Universe, among other places. He's the former fiction editor of RevolutionSF.com, and former media director for Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America. A collected volume of his SF-themed interviews, "Voices of Vision: Creators of Science Fiction and Fantasy Speak," is available from the University of Nebraska Press.

For more information, please visit jaymeblaschke.com. See the official trailer below.



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