Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Musical)
September 11-13, 18-20, 25-26, 2009
This adaptation of the film comedy (which starred Steve Martin and Michael Caine) earned a whopping eleven TONY nominations - including both lead actors nominated against each other: Broadway/TV legend John Lithgow and Norbert Leo Butz in a star-making and ultimately TONY-winning breakout performance. Rounding out the original cast were theatre luminaries Gregory Jbara, Joanna Gleason, Sara Gettelfinger and Sherie Rene Scott. After Lithgow and Butz left the show, DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS ran with several notable stars stepping into the lead roles to great success and critical acclaim (Jonathan Pryce, Brian D’arcy James, Lucy Arnaz, Rachel York and Keith Carradine all took roles during the run). In addition, a tour has criss-crossed the US since 2007.
Based on the popular 1988 film, DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS centers on two con men living on the French Riviera. The first is the suave and sophisticated Lawrence Jameson, who makes his lavish living by talking rich ladies out of their money. The other, a small-time crook named Freddy Benson, more humbly swindles women by waking their compassion with fabricated stories about his grandmother’s failing health.
After meeting on a train, they unsuccessfully attempt to work together only to find that this small French town isn’t big enough for the two of them. They agree on a settlement: the first one to extract $50,000 from a young female target, heiress Christine Colgate, wins and the other must leave town. A hilarious battle of cons ensues, that will keep audiences laughing, humming and guessing to the end!
Christmas Survival Guide (Xmas/Comedy/Music Revue)
Nov 27-29 Dec 4-6 11-12, 2009
This intimate revue takes a wry and knowing look at a stressful season. Armed with a copy of A Christmas Survival Guide and an optimistic attitude, the characters charge into an urban holiday landscape searching for the true essence of Christmas. In songs and vignettes, they learn to cope with the season in ways that are both hilarious and heartwarming.
Squabbles (Comedy)
Jan 22-24, 29-31, Feb 5-6, 2010
Jerry Sloan is a successful writer of advertising jingles married to an equally successful lawyer. Living with the happy couple is the not-so-happy Abe Dreyfus, Jerry’s curmudgeon of a father-in-law. The situation is exacerbated when Jerry’s mother Mildred loses her house in a fire and needs a place to stay. The play is one hilarious confrontation after another until the heartwarming finale in which the oldsters discover that, really, each is not so bad.
Hollywood Arms (Drama)
Mar 19-21, 26-28 April 2-3, 2010
By Carol Burnett and daughter Carrie Hamilton. An affectionate homage to Carol’s grandmother, the woman who Raised the comic genius. “ Nanny” looked after the budding performer wile her parents relocated from Texas to Hollywood. But life in Los Angeles for Burnett’s parents was no bowl of roses. What started out as a pursuit of a dream degenerated into a bitter struggle with disease and alcohol.
Curtains (Contemporary Musical Mystery)
May 28-30 June 4-6, 11-12, 2010
A send-up of backstage murder mystery plots, set in 1959 Boston, Massachusetts, following the fallout when the supremely untalented star of “Robbin' Hood of the Old West” is murdered during her opening night curtain call. Can a police detective who moonlights as a musical theater fan save the show, solve the case, and maybe even find love before the show reopens, without getting killed himself?
