Alumni appearing in local play

FROM RICE NEWS STAFF REPORTS

Rice has multiple connections to an upcoming local production of “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.”

Alumni Tamara Siler ’86 and Bryce Eakin ’08 are among the cast in this musical romp about Texas’ most famous brothel, the Chicken Ranch. Alumnus Peter Masterson ’57 co-wrote the play, which pokes fun at television reporter Melvin P. Thorpe — based on the late Marvin Zindler of Houston’s KTRK-TV — and his anti-prostitution crusade.

Siler puts her musical talent to use as one of the Melvin P. Thorpe singers and dancers and as a church choir singer. She also plays the role of a townsperson. Siler is likely to experience déj