Hard Candy: The Life and Times of a Texas Bad Girl at Overtime Theater

This play probes the life and legend of Juanita Dale Slusher – later known to the world as the stripper Candy Barr. When Texas Monthly inducted her into their pantheon of Texas greats — alongside the likes of Lady Bird Johnson, Walter Cronkite and Willie Nelson — the magazine dubbed Barr “the baddest of the bad girls.” Yet Barr’s story for the most part has never been told. Four actors will portray Candy at different points in her life: the runaway teen, the famed showgirl, the prison poet, and the reflective recluse.