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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

Video

Repeats every week on the 14, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, 29 of January until Sun Jan 30 2011 .
Sat, 2012-01-14 20:00

Ticket Prices:
Adult $25.00
Senior $15.00
Student $15.00
DIRECTOR'S NOTES

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

CAST

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

PRODUCTION TEAM

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

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