The Del Shores Ultimate Collection includes the following items.  (Click on any item to see a detailed product description.)

* The Del Shores Play Collection

• “Cheatin’” Playbook
• “Daddy’s Dyin’.. Who’s Got the Will?” Playbook
• “Daughters of the Lone Star State” Playbook
• “Sordid Lives” Playbook
• “Southern Baptist Sissies” Playbook
• “Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife” Playbook

* “Daddy’s Dyin.. Who’s Got the Will?” Movie (DVD)
* “Sordid Lives” Movie (DVD)
* “Sordid Lives: The Series” (DVD or Blu-Ray)
* “Del Shores: My Sordid Life” DVD

The Del Shores Ultimate Collection

(Includes The Del Shores Play Collection, “Daddy’s Dyin” Film, “Sordid Lives” DVD,
“Sordid Lives: The Series DVD OR Blu-Ray, and “Del Shores: My Sordid Life” DVD)

All items autographed by Del Shores.

$99.00
(plus shipping & handling)

Ultimate Collection (with”Sordid Lives: The Series” Blu-Ray)

Ultimate Collection (with “Sordid Lives: The Series” DVD)

Chronologically starting a few weeks before the original “Sordid Lives” film begins, this hysterical series has all your favorite characters (and actors!) back in action… plus a whole lotta new surprises!  Dead goats, “fat-ass” Baptist protestors, adulterous amputees, fixed Willie Nelson contests, blackmailing drag queens, “pill-popping bitches”, ticked-off hairstylists, shaved hoo ha’s, naked boys singing, and the ghost of Tammy Wynette!  Yes, you have officially entered the world of Del Shores!

Starring:
Bonnie Bedelia – Latrelle Williamson
Olivia Newton-John – Bitsy Mae Harling
Rue McClanahan – Peggy Ingram
Beth Grant – Sissy Hickey
Caroline Rhea – Noleta Nethercott
Leslie Jordan – Earl “Brother Boy” Ingram
Ann Walker – LaVonda Dupree
Jason Dottley – Ty Williamson
Newell Alexander – Wardell “Bubba” Owens
Rosemary Alexander – Dr. Eve Bollinger
David Steen – G.W. Nethercott
David Cowgill – Odell Owens
Sarah Hunley – Juanita Bartlett
Mary Margaret-Lewis – Ethel
Mitch Carter – Bumper
Margaret Cho – Therapist
Carson Kressley – Therapist
Candis Cane – Therapist
Ted Detwiler – Jacob
Lorna Scott – Vera Lisso
Dale Dickey – Glyndora Roberts
Georgette Jones – Tammy Wynette
Susan Leslie – Jackie
Sharron Alexis – Sara Kaufman
Robert Louis Stephenson – Hunter
Craig Taggart – Craig Stephen Snow
Tate Taylor – Richie Miller
Scott Presley – Roger
Emerson Collins – Max
T. Ashanti Mozelle – Vegas
Sharon Garrison – Mrs. Barnes
Katherine Bailess – Nurse Waring
Allison Tolman – Tink
Bobbie Eakes – Daniella
Joe Patrick Ward – Marshall
Chris Pudlo – Conroy
David Carl Moffat – Walker McElroy
Bob Downs – Reverend Barnes
Liz Mikel – Maggie
Cassie Shea Watson – Saline Hinkle
Wyatt Earp – Sheriff Danford

Writer/Director: Del Shores

Series Synopsis:
Sordid Lives: The Series (created by Del Shores) is the story of a small town Texas family presided over by matriarch Peggy Ingram (Rue McClanahan) who takes in the town bar-singer Bitsy Mae Harling (Olivia Newton-John) who has just been released from prison.

Peggy’s wild child daughter LaVonda (Ann Walker) lives with Peggy’s chain-smoking sister Sissy (Beth Grant), while Peggy’s good girl Latrelle (Bonnie Bedelia) maintains an image of seeming perfection. Peggy’s third child “Brother Boy” Ingram (Leslie Jordan) is locked in a mental institution where he performs as Tammy Wynette. He plots to escape while he attends therapy sessions with the crazy Dr. Eve (Rosemary Alexander) who believes she can dehomosexualize him.

LaVonda’s white trash best friend Noleta (Caroline Rhea) lives in a trailer in Sissy’s backyard with her husband G.W. (David Steen), a Vietnam vet with two wooden legs. G.W. escapes regularly to the local bar in town amidst a small crowd of regulars including brothers Wardell (Newell Alexander) and Odell (David Cowgill), Bitsy and this bar’s crazy old fly Juanita (Sarah Hunley).

Latrelle’s son Ty (Jason Dottley) is an actor living in Los Angeles and struggling with several therapists (Margaret Cho, Carson Kressley, Candis Cayne) to come to terms with his homosexuality. Along the way he deals with his first boyfriend, his stalker ex-girlfriend, a vengeful trick and the difficulty of coming out to his straight best friend and his family back in Texas.

“Sordid Lives: The Series” is the universally relatable story of a town of family and friends ,and the trials and tribulations they go through as they learn to see each other for who they are instead of who they wish each other to be.

SERIES PROMO TRAILER:  Click here to watch the original promo trailer for “Sordid Lives: The Series”!

The DVD and Blu-Ray editions feature over 80 minutes of bonus footage, Olivia Newton-John performances, deleted scenes, bloopers and everything UNCENSORED!  You’ll see and hear all the goodies that Logo left out, including the previously-censored Rue McClanahan sex scene, and the now-classic, foul-mouthed episode “Call Waiting”!!

Both the DVD and the Blu-Ray are for sale from Del Shores’ PERSONAL COLLECTION imported from the Canadian release (and yes, these WILL play on your U.S. DVD and Blu-Ray players!!).

“Sordid Lives: The Series” Blu-Ray Autographed by Del Shores (Canadian Distributor Blu-Ray edition) ONLY $24.99 (plus shipping & handling)	“Sordid Lives: The Series” DVD Autographed by Del Shores (Canadian Distributor DVD edition)  ONLY $24.99 (plus shipping & handling)

“Sordid Lives” (Film)

Starring:
Bonnie Bedelia - Latrelle Williamson
Beau Bridges - G. W. Nethercott
Olivia Newton-John – Bitsy Mae Harling
Delta Burke - Noleta Nethercott
Beth Grant - Sissy Hickey
Leslie Jordan - Brother Boy “Earl” Ingram
Ann Walker - LaVonda Dupree
Newell Alexander - Wardell “Bubba” Owens
Sarah Hunley - Juanita Bartlett
Earl Bullock - Odelle Owens
Kirk Geiger - Ty Williamson
Mary Margaret Lewis – Ethel
Mitch Carter – Bumper
Lorna Scott – Vera Lisso
Gloria LeRoy – Peggy Ingram

Writer/Director: Del Shores

Movie Synopsis:
Writer-director Del Shores serves up a heaping helping of Southern-fried comic melodrama in this adaptation of his own play about infidelity, country & western music, and Airstream trailers. When their sister dies, Latrelle (Bonnie Bedelia), LaVonda (Ann Walker), and Sissy (Beth Grant) plan her funeral — an unenviable task, considering that they must carefully hide the deceased’s affair with amputee G.W. (Beau Bridges) from his wife, the vindictive Noleta (Delta Burke). Meanwhile, the trio has to come to terms with two cases of sexual orientation: Latrelle’s openly gay soap-opera star son Ty (Kirk Geiger), whose sexuality she continues to deny; and their only brother, “Brother Boy” (Leslie Jordan), who’s serving a sentence in a mental ward for his adamant belief that he is actually country & western legend Tammy Wynette. Playing an aspiring singer-songwriter, Olivia Newton-John turns up to provide the film with the occasional musical interlude.

This twisted, white-trash tale “puts the ‘fun’ in ‘dysfunctional’” (Toronto Sun)

Toss in a couple of feuding, big-haired daughters, a jumpy aunt who just quit smoking, the scorned neighbor from hell, and crazy, cross-dressing “Brother Boy” – and you’ve got an outrageous “train wreck you can’t help but watch!” (Chicago Tribune)

The Del Shores Collection includes the following 3 Titles:

“Daddy’s Dyin’… Who’s Got the Will” DVD

Del Shores’ first hit play, and first film adaptation was “Daddy’s Dyin’.. Who’s Got the Will?”.  This hilarious MGM comedy is set in Lowake, Texas, and concerns a family who gathers to mourn- and perhaps to mine- the memory of their soon-to-be-departed “daddy”.  Featuring an all-star cast: Beau Bridges, Beverly D’Angelo, Tess Harper, Judge Reinhold, Keith Carradine, Amy Wright, Patrika Darbo, and Molly McClure.  For more DVD information, go to “Daddy’s Dyin.. Who’s Got the Will?”.

Patrika Darbo in “Daddy’s Dyin’.. Who’s Got the Will?”

“Sordid Lives” (Film) DVD

Here it is, the movie that started it all… Del Shores’ “Sordid Lives”!!  It began as a hit stage play, then became a cult movie phenomenon, and finally a popular television series.  Frequently quoted and forever-adored, this outrageous film stars Bonnie Bedelia, Olivia Newton-John, Delta Burke, Leslie Jordan, Beth Grant, and a multitude of Del Shore’s “regulars”.  For a complete synopsis and cast list, go to “Sordid Lives” Film.  Own the movie that the Toronto Sun says “puts the ‘fun’ in ‘dysfunctional’”!

 Delta Burke in “Sordid Lives” (Film)

Sordid Lives: The Series” DVD (or Blu-Ray)

Watch the film “Sordid Lives”  first, then kick back for a 12-episode gut-busting prequel!!  “Sordid Lives: The Series”  reunites most of the original movie-cast including Bonnie Bedelia, Olivia Newton-John, Leslie Jordan and Beth Grant… and welcomes a few other A-list comedy actors, including “Golden Girls”star Rue McClanahan (in her last television role) and Caroline Rhea.  Additionally, all of Del Shores’ “players” are back in the roles they made famous, including Ann Walker, Rosemary Alexander, Newell Alexander, Sarah Hunley, and many more.  This DVD is uncensored (unlike the original broadcast on Logo) and features a ton of extra goodies.  For series synopsis, cast list, and DVD features, go to “Sordid Lives: The Series”.

 Caroline Rhea, Beth Grant and Ann Walker
in “Sordid Lives: The Series”

Del Shores DVD Collection

Each DVD autographed by Del Shores.

$44.99
(plus shipping & handling)

Del Shores DVD Collection
(with “Sordid Lives: The Series on Blu-Ray)

$44.99
(plus shipping & handling)

The “Sordid Package” includes the following 3 Must-Have Items for any true “Sordid” Fan!! 

“Sordid Lives” Playbook

Del Shores’ third play “Sordid Lives” opened in 1996 to critical and box office acclaim!  Now you can read the original script which introduced now-legendary characters like “Brother Boy” Ingram and Sissy Hickey.  The play is divided into four acts, with titles that will be VERY familiar to diehard “Sordid Lives” fans… “Nicotine Fit”, “Two Wooden Legs”, “The Dehomosexualization of Brother Boy” and “All Laid Out (In a Mink Stole)”.  A modern comedy masterpiece that is still frequently performed in theatres all over the country!  (The play “Sordid Lives” is also part of the Del Shores Play Collection, which includes six of Del’s popular plays.)

Ann Walker, Newell Alexander, and Sarah Hunley in the stage production of “Sordid Lives”

“Sordid Lives” Film (DVD)

Here it is, the movie that started it all… Del Shores’ “Sordid Lives”!!  It began as a hit stage play, then became a cult movie phenomenon, and finally a popular television series.  Frequently quoted and forever-adored, this outrageous film stars Bonnie Bedelia, Olivia Newton-John, Delta Burke, Leslie Jordan, Beth Grant, and a multitude of Del Shore’s “regulars”.  For a complete synopsis and cast list, go to “Sordid Lives” Film.  Own the movie that the Toronto Sun says “puts the ‘fun’ in ‘dysfunctional’”!

Delta Burke, Sarah Hunley and Ann Walker in “Sordid Lives” (Film)

Sordid Lives: The Series” (DVD or Blu-Ray)

Watch the film “Sordid Lives”  first, then kick back for a 12-episode gut-busting prequel!!  ”Sordid Lives: The Series” reunites most of the original movie-cast including Bonnie Bedelia, Olivia Newton-John, Leslie Jordan and Beth Grant… and welcomes a few other A-list comedy actors, including “Golden Girls”star Rue McClanahan (in her last television role) and Caroline Rhea.  Additionally, all of Del Shores’ “players” are back in the roles they made famous, including Ann Walker, Rosemary Alexander, Newell Alexander, Sarah Hunley, and many more.  The DVD and Blu-Ray versions are uncensored (unlike the original broadcast on Logo) and features a ton of extra goodies.  For series synopsis, cast list, and features, go to ”Sordid Lives: The Series”.

Leslie Jordan in “Sordid Lives: The Series”

“Sordid Package”
(“Sordid Lives” Playbook, Film & TV Series)

All items autographed by Del Shores.

$39.99
(plus shipping & handling)

“Sordid Package”
(with “Sordid Lives: The Series on Blu-Ray)

$39.99
(plus shipping & handling)

With “Del Shores My Sordid Life”, he turns the table sharing real-life stories that have inspired his writing- and more!  Yes, there was a man with two wooden legs, but did his grandmother trip over them and die while having a sordid affair?  Did his mother really ask, “What exactly do you do… when you’re gay?” (“Sordid Lives”)?  Were prayers really answered and a matching vein found in a vein bank in Baton Rouge to replace his Uncle Humpty’s collapsed one? (“Southern Baptist Sissies”)  What relative really shot a policeman in the “saliva gland” and shoulder (“Trailer Trash Housewife”)?  What was his aunt’s reaction to seeing herself as the multi-married bar-singer Evalita in “Daddy’s Dyin’”?

Truth and fiction are finally separated and the result is absolute, side-splitting hilarity!

“Del Shores: My Sordid Life” was filmed in Los Angeles in January, 2001, and captures Del’s one-man show which toured 30 U.S. cities in 2009 and 2010.  Available for the first time, this DVD also includes special behind-the-scenes features, including a peak inside Del’s dressing room with stars from his plays, movies and television shows.  Look for Leslie Jordan, Beau Bridges, Ann Walker, Rosemary Alexander, Jason Dottley, Emerson Collins, Newell Alexander, Debby Holiday and others!!

The Column, Dallas wrote “Del Shores is so engaging.  It’s like having lunch with a close personal friend.”  Now you can own the DVD… autographed by Del Shores himself!

“Del Shores: My Sordid Life” DVD

Autographed by Del Shores

Only $19.99
(plus shipping & handling)

Starring: Beau Bridges, Keith Carradine, Beverly D’Angelo, Tess Harper, Judge Reinhold, Amy Wright, Patrika Darbo, Molly McClure. Newell Alexander

Director: Jack Fisk

Writer: Del Shores

Movie Synopsis:
They wanted Daddy’s love… but they’ll settle for his dough! A “terrific cast” (Leonard Maltin) – including Beau Bridges, Beverly D’Angelo, Tess Harper and Judge Reinhold – star in this wickedly funny comedy of heirs about a Texas family who gather to mourn – and perhaps to mine – the memory of their dear ole dad. Scheming Orville (Bridges), nympho Evalita (D’Angelo), loyal Sara Lee (Harper) and self-righteous Lurlene (Amy Wright) are all very frantic when they learn that their daddy’s dyin’…mostly because they can’t find his last legal will and testament! But as old grudges and suppressed desires are aired, this family reunion becomes a wild free-for-all – and a “touching, unpredictable [and] affectionate drama” (San Francisco Chronicle)!

 “Daddy’s Dyin’… Who’s Got the Will?” DVD

Autographed by Del Shores.

ONLY $19.99
(plus shipping & handling)

THE DEL SHORES PLAY COLLECTION INCLUDES THESE SIX WORKS:

  ”Cheatin’”

Before Daddy’s Dyin’ Who’s Got the Will? and Sordid Lives, there was this award winning comedy set in the west Texas watering hole of Lowake. Gossip, the town’s major pastime, ignites a blaze of infidelity that engulfs three couples with the zany precision of a Feydeau farce. The clan includes Bo Bob, the dimwitted mailman, and Clarence, local stud and mechanic who’s been messin’ with Ovella since high school. His faithful girl is Sara Lee Turnover, the beautician. Teddy Joe, Ovella’s wronged husband who is more brawn than brain, Maybelline, the overweight waitress who wants to be in love, and a narrator/story teller/singer who doubles as a psychic and believes in happy endings complete the cast. The comedy is fast paced and touching with a sense of authentic Texas humor.

“First rate!” - Hollywood Reporter

“Hilarious!” - L.A. Daily News

“A hotcake of a Texas comedy.” - DramaLogue

“An entertaining, truly hilarious eruption of bucolic wit.” - Kansas City Star

  “Daddy’s Dyin’… Who’s Got the Will?”

“Set in a small Texas town in anytime, U.S.A., Daddy’s Dyin’ concerns the reunion of a family gathered to await the imminent death of their patriarch, who has recently suffered a physically as well as mentally disabling stroke. In essence, however, it is not the story of the impending demise of the father or of the drafting of his will, but of a rebirth of the spirit of the family unit. Without becoming ponderous, losing a sense of humor or pandering to timeworn cliches about Texans or Texas drawls, the story shares many elements of a good summer novel: it’s a fast, delicious, easy read with funny moments, tense moments, touching moments, and characters you care about.”  -The Hollywood Reporter

“A masterful comedy.”-Variety

“A well written piece of mainstream theatre that’s consistently funny and occasionally touching.” The Los Angeles Times

  “Daughters of the Lone Star State”

This is the third of the Lowake, Texas series. It’s the day before Christmas Eve and The Daughters of the Lone Star State are having their annual meeting. The old group is dying out, literally, so this year’s effort to attract members is all out. When “white trash” and “coloreds” arrive, chaos erupts.

“Bright, fresh, funny, vividly executed. This is Grade A comedy with a punch.” L.A. Village View

“The dialogue snaps, crackles and bounces like popcorn poppin’.” DramaLogue

“Racism is an emotional subject and your ability to confront it at a humorous level proves Shores’ great talent.” Ann Richards, Governor of Texas.

  “Sordid Lives”

A black comedy about white trash! This now-classic comedy was nominated for over thirty awards during its long run in Los Angeles, and eventually became a hit movie and television series. When Peggy, a good Christian woman, hits her head on the sink and bleeds to death after tripping over her lover’s wooden legs in a motel room, chaos erupts in Winters, Texas.

“[This play by] the master of Texas Comedy … is maybe funnier than Daddy’s Dyin’. His colorful eccentrics are dead on, teetering on a Bowie knife’s edge between the hilariously improbable and the achingly real.”  – L.A. Times

“Run, don’t walk to Del Shores new play!” – DramaLogue

  “Southern Baptist Sissies”

Follows the journey of four gay boys in the Baptist Church. Storyteller Mark Lee Fuller tries to create a world of love and acceptance in the church and clubs of Dallas, Texas, while desperately trying to find a place to put his own pain and rage. The world Mark creates also includes two older barflies, Peanut and Odette, whose banter takes the audience from hysterical laughter to tragedy and tears. With a theme of religion clashing with sexuality, the play opened to rave reviews in Los Angeles during its original run in 2000 and became the most awarded play of the year, winning the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding LA Theater Production, as well as multiple LA Weekly Theater Awards, Los Angeles Critics Awards, Ovation Awards, Backstage West Garland Awards and Robby Awards.

“Daring. Heroic. No-holds-barred hilarious.” - LA Times

“Cathartic, comedic, awe-inspiring.” - Daily Variety

“Brash, sensitive and compelling. An evening of engrossing and, at times, hilarious theatre.” - The Hollywood Reporter

“Wrenching as it is hilarious.” - Dallas Morning News

  “The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife”

Music by Joe Patrick Ward
Lyrics by Sharyn Lane, Del Shores & Joe Patrick Ward

Willi is the trailer trash housewife of the title, not necessarily of her own volition. Her abusive husband won’t let her get a job, one of her children is dead, and the other is verboten by her husband because he’s gay. Her best and only friend, a large black woman who lives next door, worries about her constantly, always concerned that Willi’s husband will end up killing her. A new woman comes to live in the trailer park and ends up having an affair with Willi’s husband. When she finds out, Willi decides to get a job at the local Wal-Mart (a first step on the way to liberating herself from him). Her husband will have none of it, and quoting the bible about how a wife is supposed to obey her husband, threatens all three women with a gun, and then beats Willi to within an inch of her life. She recovers enough to finally shoot him, releasing her from the torment that she’d been living in for years. A blues singer weaves songs into the action, commenting upon Willi’s predicament and urging her toward decisive action.

“A feat of breathtaking audacity.” – Critics Choice, – Los Angeles Times

“Shores manages to fully explore Willadean’s horrific plight while infusing the work with such hilarity the audience is often reduced to tears and laughter within the same breath.” – Daily Variety

Del Shores Play Collection (6 Plays)

Each Playbook Autographed By Del Shores

$59.99
(plus shipping & handling)