Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
"The con is on!"
Toronto Premiere
Book by Jeffrey Lane
Music and lyrics by David Yazbek
Based on the film "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"
Written by Dale Launer, Stanley Shapiro & Paul Henning
Jan 14 - 29, 2011
Hart House Theatre is thrilled to be able to present another Toronto Premiere of a major Musical. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a hilarious musical romp based on the hit film starring Michael Caine and Steve Martin. On the French Riviera, two charming and unscrupulous con-artists are pitted against each other in this smart, sexy and side-splitting comedy. Filled with delightful scams, ridiculous plot-twists and plenty of back-stabbing fun, this Tony-Award winning musical will seduce you with an uncompromising wit, an unforgettable score and a smorgasbord of devilishly charming and corrupt characters.
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3 Week Run
Week 1 - Fri and Sat 8pm
Week 2 - Wed to Sat 8pm
Week 3 - Wed to Sat 8pm + Sat 2pm
Tickets: Adults $25
Students & Seniors $15
$10 Student Tickets every Wednesday Night!
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Directed by Jeremy Hutton:
Director
Jeremy Hutton
Jeremy was the founding Artistic Director of the Toronto Youth Theatre. He is also the resident fight director for the Classical Theatre Project and Hart House Theatre and is thrilled to be Hart House Theatre’s first Artistic Director in over 30 years!
Selected Credits: For Hart House Theatre: Richard III (Director, Sound Designer), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Director), Arcadia (Director, sound designer), King Lear (Director, fight director, composer), Hamlet (Hamlet, fight director, composer, sound designer), Romeo and Juliet (Director, fight director, composer), Othello (Director, fight director, composer), As You like It (Orlando), Troilus and Cressida (Nestor), Macbeth (Macduff)
For Canopy Theatre Company: Twelfth Night (Director), Romeo and Juliet (Fight director), As You Like It (Fight director), Much Ado About Nothing (Borachio), Oedipus Rex (Chorus #9, fight director, Music Director). Coriolanus (Coriolanus, fight director), Titus Andronicus (Chiron), Antony and Cleopatra (Director, fight director), Julius Caesar (Cassius) For Toronto Youth Theatre: Rocky Horror Show (Director), ToboR the RoboT (Writer, Director), Into The Woods (Director), Little Shop of Horrors (Director), A Musical Called Robin Hood (Writer, Director), Lucky Stiff (Director), Fairy Tale Ending (Writer, Director), City of Angels (Director), A Midsummer’s Night Dream (Director), Urinetown (Director), Jesus Christ Superstar (Director)
Fight Directing Credits: Macbeth (CTP), Twelfth Night (CTP), Hamlet (CTP), Othello (CTP), Romeo and Juliet (CTP), Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare By the Sea), Richard III (SBTS), Robin Hood (SBTS), Pericles (SBTS), Julius Caesar (Alchemy) Antony and Cleopatra (Alchemy
Ticket Prices:
Adult $25.00
Senior $15.00
Student $15.00
Set on the French Riviera
In recent years, it’s been rather fashionable to adapt popular movies into stage musicals. Writers have been scoring their favourite flicks and putting them on stage with varied levels of success depending on whether the source materials are well suited to a musical treatment. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is among the best of that bunch simply because it contains a world in which it is easy to believe that people will break into song at any moment. Set in the French Riviera, Beaumont Sur Mer is a magical place inhabited by beautiful, idle, rich people with no better way to spend their time than a bit of singing and dancing. Of course, they’re entirely available to be scammed by a charming and handsome con artist if things get a little dull.
This adaptation of the story has much to please fans of the film yet it is not nearly a direct copy of the original. The musical setting gives the story the flavour of an old Hollywood movie-musical mixed with a hard-edged modern comedy that is, at times, a bit surprising. What remains is what made the movie popular in the first place: The unlikely relationship that develops between two scoundrels and the woman they have marked. The resulting chaos makes for an unpredictable, hilarious and thoroughly entertaining couple hours of theatre.
Enjoy!
-Jeremy Hutton, Director
Laurence
Neil Silcox
Freddy
Evan Dowling
Andre
Cameron Johnston
Christine
Ashley Gibson
Muriel
Janice Hawke
Jolene/Usherette
Lea Russel
Chorus
Ashley Arnold
Chorus
Holly LaFlamme
Chorus
Meira Gold
Chorus
Eden Richmond
Chorus
Monica Bettson
Chorus
Cora Matheson
Chorus
Brian Waters
Chorus
Kevin Forestell
Chorus
Rino Maurati
Chorus
John Chou
Chorus
Cory Strong
Chorus
Mark Anthony
Director
Jeremy Hutton
Music Direction
Tara Litvack
Choreography
Ashleigh Powell
Set Design
Brandon Kleiman
Costume Design
Melanie McNeill
Lighting Design
Travis Hatt
Dialect Coach
John Fleming
Stage Manager
Laura Cournoyea
Assistant Stage Manager
Aidan Morishita-Miki
Assistant Stage Manager
Brandon Hackett
Assistant Stage Manager
Keely O'Farrell

















