Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (musical)

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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Original Broadway Production

Original Broadway Production Poster
Music David Yazbek
Lyrics David Yazbek
Book Jeffrey Lane
Theatre Imperial Theatre
Opened March 3, 2005
Closed September 3, 2006
Producer(s) Marty Bell, David Brown, Aldo Scrofani, Roy Furman, Dede Harris, Amanda Lipitz, Greg Smith, Ruth Hendel, Chase Mishkin, Barry Tatelman, Susan Tatelman, Debra Black, Sharon Karmazin, Joyce Schweickert, Bernie Abrams, Michael Speyer, Barbara Whitman, Weissberger Theater Group, Cheryl Wiesenfeld, Jean Cheever, Clear Channel Entertainment and Harvey Weinstein
Director Jack O'Brien
Choreographer Jerry Mitchell
Scenic designer David Rockwell
Costume designer Gregg Barnes
Lighting designer Kenneth Posner
Originally starring John Lithgow
Norbert Leo Butz
Sherie Rene Scott
Gregory Jbara
Joanna Gleason
Official website

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a Broadway musical, with music and lyrics by David Yazbek and a book by Jeffrey Lane; it is based on the film of the same name. John Lithgow, Norbert Leo Butz, and Sherie Rene Scott played the lead roles at opening, with Joanna Gleason and Gregory Jbara also receiving above-the-title billing. The show premiered in San Diego, California on September 22, 2004, before moving to Broadway in January 2005 and officially opening in March. The show closed on Broadway on September 3, 2006 with a total of 666 performances.

A North American national tour launched on August 4 with Tony Award-winner Norbert Leo Butz reprising his role as Freddy, alongside Tom Hewitt as Lawrence. Future productions are planned for Japan (in October 2006), Mexico City, Spain, and possibly London.[1]

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[edit] Awards and nominations

[edit] Tony Award nominations

[edit] Drama Desk Award nominations

  • Outstanding New Musical
  • Outstanding Book of a Musical
  • Outstanding Actor in a Musical (Norbert Leo Butz) WINNER
  • Outstanding Actress in a Musical (Sherie RenĂ© Scott)
  • Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical (Gregory Jbara)
  • Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical (Joanna Gleason)
  • Outstanding Choreography (Jerry Mitchell)
  • Outstanding Orchestrations (Harold Wheeler)
  • Outstanding Music (David Yazbek)
  • Outstanding Lyrics (David Yazbek)


  • Chuck Saculla - Swings

[edit] Replacement history

[edit] Songs

[edit] Act I

  • Overture
  • Give Them What They Want (Broadway)/The Only Game in Town (National Tour)
  • What Was a Woman To Do
  • Great Big Stuff
  • Chimp in a Suit
  • Oklahoma?
  • All About Ruprecht
  • What Was a Woman To Do (Reprise) (Not on the OBCR)
  • Here I Am
  • Nothing Is Too Wonderful To Be True
  • The Miracle (Act I Finale)

[edit] Act II

  • Ruffhousin' Mit Shuffhausen
  • Like Zis/Like Zat
  • The More We Dance
  • Love is My Legs
  • Love Sneaks In
  • Son of Great Big Stuff
  • The Reckoning
  • Dirty Rotten Number
  • Finale

[edit] Notes

  • For the first national tour of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, the number "Give Them What They Want" was replaced with (according to Yazbek) a more suitable opening number, "The Only Game in Town". Yazbek has also noted that the new number will most likely be the one available when the rights for the show are released to regional and amateur theatres.
  • The line in "Give Them What They Want" which mentions David Niven is a reference to Niven's starring role as Laurence Jameson in the original film "Bedtime Story".

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