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This was going to go into the linklog, but it’s so wonderfully bizarre that I figured it deserved a little more visibility.

Debbie Does Dallas — The Musical!

WATCHING a porn film with your colleagues is not the usual workplace practice.

But for a group of Sydney actors rehearsing a new musical, a viewing of the classic 1978 X-rated flick Debbie Does Dallas on Thursday night was all in the name of research. “There was a lot of fast-forwarding going on and quite a few toilet and drink breaks,” actor Lisa Adam said yesterday. “But I think we can justify it for character development - and I’ve got to say, it’s the most interesting research I’ve ever done.” Adam stars as Debbie in Debbie Does Dallas - The Musical, a spoof based on the classic porn film that featured Bambi Woods as a cheerleader who needs to make money through, ahem, sweat and tears to join the pom-pom squad of the Texas football team. […] “There’s no hardcore sex, instead when there’s a sex scene in the movie that’s when we do a musical number. “So an orgy scene is done to a tango and a threesome is like a Spanish-style flamenco. The choreographer has tried to make it very stylised and comical, rather than just having people rooting on stage.”

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p>I knew I should have stuck to theatre…

iTunes: “Related Vortex” by X-Dream from the album Spirit Zone Vol. 2 (1996, 8:48).