Sheila Nevins (HBO Documentaries) and producer Patti Kaplan conceived CATHOUSE: THE MUSICAL as the finale for the second season of CATHOUSE, the unlikely hit series depicting life inside the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, a legal brothel in Carson City, Nevada. Fred and his longtime collaborator, director/choreographer Scott Thompson, made several trips to Nevada in 2007 to coach, rehearse, arrange, and stage the 11 songs included in the show.

The show was filmed in Virginia City (once the largest U.S. city west of St. Louis), at the historic 1875 Opera House where Maude Adams, John Philip Sousa, and Mark Twain, and all the greatest talents of the late nineteenth century once played. Now a slightly different brand of talent has been added to the history of the opera house...

The Moonlite Bunny Ranch ladies, and Dennis Hof, the proprietor, put on their dancing shoes and worked very hard to learn to sing and dance their numbers. The show consists of interviews, rehearsal footage, and the final performance footage. The show contains adult language and graphic sexual footage: not suitable for children of any ages!

Fred and some new friends....Clockwise from left: Fred and Air Force Amy; Fred and Madame Suzette; Fred with Eden38DD and Air Force Amy at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch; Fred performs with Madame Suzette; filming Fred on the "Cathouse: The Musical" set; and the set itself before filming, constructed in the audience area of the historic Virginia City Opera House.