Skanks in a One Horse Town

Written, Directed & Lyrics By Billy Ray Brewton
Music By Flannery Whaley & Christoph Hooks

January 12-28, 2012
Thursday-Saturday Nights at 8pm
Sunday Matinee at 2pm

Performed at 5th Avenue Antiques

Three 1970's-era skanks are transported, via a time-traveling disco ball at Studio 54, back to the Old West where they must stop the local railroad tycoon from bringing the railroad through the sleepy town of Deep Hole. They are aided on their journey by rock god Meat Loaf, queer killing cyborg Anita Bryant and country legend Conway Twitty, all thrown back in time with them. This musical features original songs by Billy Ray Brewton, Flannery Miles and Christoph Hooks.

Featuring: Chuck Duck, Bates Redwine, S. Michael Wilson, Nick Crawford, Saxon Murrell, Daniel Martin, Charla Cochran, Bert R. Payne, Kevin Van Hyning, Susan Cook, Juan Carlos Batlle, Chris Hicks, Dianne Daniels, Penny Thomas, Flannery Hooks, Christina Guthrie, Katie Moon, Kelsey Crawford, Debbie Smith, Mike Cunliffe, Chuck Evans, Jonathan Sweatt, Lee J. Green, Raymond Quintero and Douglas O'Neil, Jr.

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“It’s safe to say you’re not going to see anything quite like this. Anywhere. Anytime. ”
— Alec Harvey

Billy Ray Brewton is an award-winning playwright and filmmaker. His plays include: A Beast/A Burden (Hollywood Fringe Festival; Off-Broadway So-Ho Playhouse); The Xmascist, Must Come Down, After School Special, and The 13th Friday: Ready, Set, Die! Musicals include: Country Roses: The Musical, Dragula: The Musical, Skanks in a One Horse Town, and We Three Queens. He has written stage adaptations of George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, and John Dryden’s Marriage-a-la-Mode. Most recently he directed Red Light Winter for Los Angeles’s Catharsis Theatre Collective and Son-of-a-Bitch, an award-winner at the 2019 Hollywood Fringe Festival. As a filmmaker, he wrote and directed the horror film, Show Yourself (available on Tubi) and produced the 2025 documentary, Coroner to the Stars. He is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild, and is the co-founder of Birmingham’s Theatre Downtown.