My Bare Lady: Porn Stars Do Chekov

I’m about three weeks late on this, but I couldn’t ignore the announcement of a new Fox reality TV show (via Wonderland):

“My Bare Lady” will cast four leading ladies from porn studios in a classic piece of drama to be performed in London’s West End. Their experiences undergoing a crash course in acting and appearing before a discerning British audience will air in three episodes on the Fox Reality cable and satellite channels this fall.

“It’s a wonderful tale of redemption,” said David Lyle, general manager of Fox Reality. “Do they want lines that are a little more challenging than ‘Oh, here’s the pool guy…’?”

They’re going to star in The Cherry Orchard. If you don’t know your Chekov, it’s not exactly Neil Simon. For a modern audience, that play is a little hard to watch with talented actors. If the porn stars are lucky, they’ll do the version adapted by David Mamet.

And, incidentally, which West End theatre is so down on its luck that it’s willing to participate in this sort of thing? Did “Momma Mia” finally close?

Predictably, “My Bare Lady” was also the name of a pornographic film from 1989.