In her entertaining one-woman show Southern Fried Chickie, Christy McBrayer proves that she's become everything her daddy wanted her to be: a strong, beautiful woman who knows as much as any man ...

Short of marrying within her gene pool, there's not an unflattering stereotype that Christy McBrayer misses in her recollection of relatives and characters from her upbringing in Saltillo ...

Christy McBrayer resents the term "white trash ... Directed by Rita Sheffield, Southern Fried Chickie inspired praise from LA Weekly, which called it a "slick, funny, tightly constructed show ...

Arriving by way of the audience, togged up as a hard-working, up-and-coming Hollywood glamour queen wannabe, McBrayer suddenly sheds her evening gown and unveils the plain-talking cutoff jeans ...