It’s Christmas Eve, 1938, and 15-year-old Cassidy Smith is quite pregnant with the kid of 40ish Reed Hooker. Cassidy is normally eager to marry Reed, Reed is definitely desperate to open Louisiana’s hottest fresh taxi-dancing emporium and neither are prepared for the arrival of Reed’s wife, Sue Jack Hooker, a dangerous beauty who has just been let out of the penitentiary. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Beth Henley spins among her most colorful tales, as she comes after a hilarious band of ne’er-do-wells looking to scratch dreams in the Louisiana mud.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast efficiency featuring Jack Black, Brandon Maggart, Jim McLure, Laurel Moglen, Elizabeth Ruscio, Jean Wise and Kurtwood Smith.