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Original Broadway Production PosterMusicLyricsBookBasisbyProductions20042005 Broadway2006 North American tourInternational and regional productions2013 Australia20142015/16 UK TourDirty Rotten Scoundrels is a 2004 comedy, with music and lyrics by and a book by; it is based on the of the same name. The musical premiered on in 2005 and ran for 626 performances despite mixed reviews. It has since received tours and international productions. The Australian production opened in 2013 to rave reviews and was called the 'best musical to hit Sydney this century' by the. A production opened in 2014 to generally warm reviews. Contents.Productions Original production The musical premiered in on September 22, 2004, before moving to Broadway in January 2005 and officially opening in March at the. The show closed on Broadway on September 3, 2006 after a total of 626 performances.
The director was, choreographer was Jerry Mitchell, with scenic design by, costume design by Gregg Carves, and lighting design. The cast included, and, with, and Sara Gettelfinger. The production was nominated for ten, including, and, but it won only one, for (Butz). National tours and international productions A North American national tour launched on August 4, 2006 with Norbert Leo Butz reprising his role as Freddy, alongside as Lawrence. The tour ended on August 19, 2007.
A 25-city non-Equity tour, with Jamie Jackson as Lawrence and Doug Thompson as Freddy, began on September 25, 2007 in, with its final performance on March 23, 2008, in. International productions have been staged in TokyoMexico City,. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels opened in, Australia, October 24, 2013 featuring, Anne Wood. West End (2014) The original UK production had pre- tryouts at the and the beginning in November 2013 before beginning previews at the, London, on March 10, 2014, with the official opening night on April 2, 2014. The production was directed and choreographed by, with design by, in what was described as a 'reconceived and re-imagined' production. The original cast included as Lawrence, as Freddy, as Christine and as Muriel.
The production closed on March 7, 2015. UK Tour (2015) The UK tour starred as Lawrence, as Freddy, as Christine, and Geraldine Fitzgerald as Muriel. Began the tour in May 2015 as Andre, with taking over the role in September 2015. The tour opened in Birmingham at the New Alexandra Theater on May 5, 2015. The cast also featured Emma Caffrey, Andy Conaghan, Phoebe Coupe, Soophia Faroughi, Jonny Godbold, Orla Gormley, Patrick Harper, Justin Lee-Jones, Jordan Livesey, Lisa Mathieson, Andy Rees, Freya Rowley, Regan Shepherd, Kevin Stephen-Jones, Katie Warsop and Jenny Wickham.Plot Act 1 Inside a lively casino near the French Riviera ('Overture'), con-artist Lawrence Jameson is tricking wealthy women out of their money with the help of his 'bodyguard' Andre ('Give Them What They Want'). Muriel Eubanks and a few other women express their devotion and amorous feelings for Lawrence, who has conned them ('What Was a Woman To Do').
Andre warns Lawrence about a highly successful con-artist known as 'The Jackal', who is said to be visiting the area. Later, aboard a train, Lawrence watches an American named Freddy Benson (who he figures is The Jackal) swindle a woman, but notes that Freddy makes much less money than Lawrence does. Lawrence brings Freddy to his lavish mansion, where Freddy envies Lawrence's success as a swindler and describes everything he'll have when he's rich ('Great Big Stuff').
Freddy asks Lawrence to show him his ways. Andre thinks Freddy is unworthy of Lawrence's attention and compares Freddy to a chimp in a suit ('Chimp in a Suit'). Lawrence considers Freddy's request until Jolene Oakes, a woman he's conned, informs him at gunpoint that he's going to marry her and move with her to Oklahoma ('Oklahoma?'
Then Lawrence decides to use Freddy's help. Freddy poses as Lawrence's repulsive brother Ruprecht ('All About Ruprecht'). Seeing that Lawrence plans to make Ruprecht a large part of their life together, Jolene calls off the wedding.Lawrence begins to think that there isn't enough room in town for both him and Freddy after the pair argue. They make a deal: the first to swindle a woman out of $50,000 gets to stay in town, while the other has to leave. Immediately after they agree on this, the arrival of 'The American Soap Queen' is announced.
Her name is Christine Colgate, and she is optimistic, naive and hopelessly clumsy, constantly bumping into people ('Here I Am'). Both con men decide to target her. Freddy presents himself as a man paralyzed from the waist down. Christine and Freddy discuss his medical options and he explains that only one therapist, Dr. Shuffhausen, can help him, but he can't afford Dr. Shuffhausen's $50,000 fee. Christine tells him to keep his hopes up ('Nothing Is Too Wonderful To Be True') and offers to pay for the therapy just as Freddy had hoped ('The Miracle').
Then she reveals that Dr. Shuffhausen is at the hotel and Freddy is shocked to discover that Lawrence is Shuffhausen.Act 2 After a quick introduction ('Entr'acte'), Lawrence as Shuffhausen performs several torturous tests on Freddy ('Ruffhousin' Mit Shuffhausen'), who has to endure them without complaint. In the side show Muriel meets Andre and the two fall in love ('Like Zis/Like Zat'). Lawrence makes every effort to get close to Christine ('The More We Dance'). When he realizes that Christine is not as rich as they thought. Lawrence tells Freddy that they should call off their $50,000 contest.
Freddy reluctantly agrees and they agree on new terms: whoever beds Christine gets to stay. Freddy sleeps with her, then hires two sailors to kidnap Lawrence so that he can have Christine to himself.Freddy meets with Christine at the hotel where he tells her he needs motivation to get out of his chair. She says she'll be his motivation ('Love is My Legs'). She sits on the bed till he is finally able to stand up out of his chair and walk to her on the bed (where he 'accidentally' falls on top of her in exhaustion). Lawrence then shows up and it turns out to be a test planned by him and Christine. Lawrence has the same two sailors kidnap Freddy while he takes Christine to the train station so she can leave ('Love Sneaks In').
Freddy shows up, having escaped the sailors too late to get to Christine.The next day Freddy meets Christine back at the hotel who says she couldn't leave “without seeing you again.” ('Son of Great Big Stuff') The two get in bed together before the scene is switched to Lawrence's mansion where Christine arrives, telling him tearfully how she came back to see Freddy, how they made love, and then when she woke up all her money was gone: “I’m beginning to think he was never really paralyzed.” Out of remorse, Lawrence packs 50 thousand dollars in a suitcase and tells her to take it. Christine takes it, but returns and gives him back the suitcase saying, 'I’ll have something so much better to remember you by' before leaving.A few minutes later Freddy shows up in his underwear. Lawrence is angry at him for taking Christine's money. Freddy, however, claims that they never made love at all; they were about to when she knocked him out. When he woke up all his belongings were gone. Lawrence then opens up the suitcase to find the money gone, replaced by Freddy's clothes and a note that reads, “Goodbye boys. Love, 'The Jackal'”, thus revealing that she knew about their scam the entire time, and instead ended up scamming them ('The Reckoning').
A while later Christine returns to Lawrence's chateau, bringing a group of other people with her. The guys admit the scam was a good adventure ('Dirty Rotten Number') and they hatch a scheme to scam the crowd of people together in the 'Finale'.Musical numbers The musical numbers in the original Broadway production were. See also:The was recorded on March 14, 2005 at Right Track Studio in and was released on May 10, 2005 by Ghostlight Records (an imprint of ). It was nominated for a for Best Musical Show Album. ^ February 28, 2007, at the, Playbill.
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“Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” is a dark comedy that stars Steve Martin and Michael Caine. It is the story of two devious con men that prey on rich ladies in the French Rivera.
Lawrence Jamieson, tries to infiltrate and seduce wealthy women to gain their trust. After they are comfortable; he swindles them out of their money. Business is good for Jamieson. He hears whispers of a rival con artist nicknamed “The Jackal”.A new foe, American Freddy Benson, appears on the scene. Lawrence is suspicious that Freddy may be the jackal. Those fears are quickly dismissed when he sees how amateur and clumsy Freddy is. He quickly plots to eliminate Freddy from the area.
His attempts backfire and he ends up decided to team up with Freddy to run cons instead. He has Freddy make a hilarious appearance in one of his cons where he pretends to be Jamieson’s mentally challenged relative.The two former enemies find it difficult to work with each other. They establish a wager where the loser will be forced to leave the area. They both target a victim and the first one to con $50,000 from her is the winner. The select the innocent and doe eyed American, Janet Colgate.
Both con artists make sub-par efforts and both have plots foiled by the other.Jamieson poses as a psychologist and offers to take Janet on as a patient. In their conversations he comes to find that she is not wealthy at all, she was just a contest winner. He attempts to call off the bet since she doesn’t have the $50,000. Freddy offers to make her heart the prize.Angry patients and members of the Royal Navy also stand in the way for various reasons. Jamieson thinks he will do the right thing by sending Janet home to America and sneaks her on a plane.Janet shows back up the next day. We end up wondering who the true con artist is. We find out in a surprise ending.