The true story of the 1973 closing of the famed Chicken Ranch brothel in Texas quickly became this beloved 1978 Tony Award
Nominated musical. Featuring an awarding-winning country score that spawned the 1982 film version starring Dolly Parton
and Burt Reynolds.
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, known since the 1850s as one of the better pleasure palaces in all of Texas. Governors, senators, mayors
and even victorious college football teams frequent Miss Mona's cozy bordello until that puritan nemesis Watchdog focuses
his television cameras and his righteous indignation on the institution.
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