"The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" was the biggest musical I've appeared in.  Huge cast, demanding schedule and a large, elevated set. I played Melvin P. Thorpe (The Watchdog).  If you don't remember the role, it was the one Dom DeLuise played in the film with Dolly Parton and Burt Reynolds.  In the play, however, Miss Mona and the Sheriff do not drive off in the sunset and there is no song "I Will Always Love You".  I started rehearsing for this right after "It's a Scream".  During Christmas 2006, we were rehearsing the music.  So instead of singing "Deck the halls with boughs of holly...", I was singing, "Texas has a whorehouse in it...(Lord have mercy on my soul)". While working on the set, the director, Wanda Furrow, and I were at a paint store looking for the biggest whore red paint we could find.  It wasn't easy, a lot of red paints have an orange tone to them.
	All the hard work was worth it though, the entire run sold out.  We had been originally told the audiences in Roanoke would not like this play and not many people would come to see it...Wrong!!! We did this in February 2007 and backstage was so cold, we were heating up comforters in the clothes dryer to put over us to keep warm. The cast of this show were absolutely wonderful to work with and I got to perform again with Rae West who played Miss Mona.  She was also Sophie Seward in "Dracula:  The Musical?"