All right, the " St Louis Woman " book ( about jockeys, fancy women and the men who prey on them, circa 1898 ) isn't great, but that's not a problem in the sort of concert versions Encores puts on.
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Jack O'Brien staged the production that also included smashing performances by Stanley Wayne Mathis ( as the jockey who saves Ms . Williams'fancy woman from a life of sin ), Helen Goldsby, Charles S . Dutton, Yvette Cason and Victor Trent Cook.
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Not the traditional fashion-forward department store pageants where fancy designers open fancy trunks full of ball gowns for fancy women, these are more democratic affairs, held in private homes or hotel suites from Charlotte, N . C ., to San Diego, and catering to working mothers and society mavens with pressing toddler wardrobe needs.
