Full cast recording of a theatrical play read by Jean Smart, Kurtwood Smith, James McLure, Jack Black, Brandon Maggart, Laurel Moglen, and Elizabeth Ruscio. It s Christmas Eve, 1938, and 15 year-old Cassidy Smith is very pregnant with the child of 40ish Reed Hooker. Cassidy is desperate to marry Reed, Reed is desperate to open Louisiana s hottest new 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 one of her most colorful tales, as she follows a hilarious band of ne er-do-wells trying to scratch dreams from the Louisiana mud.