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The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas " review by Lyn Gardner

Union, LondonThe trouble with this 1978 musical about a long-established, much-loved brothel, the Chicken House, facing closure from a Bible-thumping moralist is that it is so full of vices it's hard to detect the virtues. It offers a rosy, sentimental picture of prostitution that no victim of sex-trafficking would recognise. It celebrates with a song and a dance the wholesomeness of the men who use the Chicken Hous…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PM on October 31, 2011

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