Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
jjdude2000
Broadway Star Joined: 12/1/04
#0Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Posted: 12/30/04 at 2:10pmDid anybody see this during its pre-Bway run?
Grace: I just gave a quarter to a homeless man. I think it was Johnny Depp.
Derek
Broadway Star Joined: 9/14/03
#1re: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Posted: 12/30/04 at 2:32pmNo, but I have tix for when it comes to broadway and im very excited
#2re: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Posted: 12/30/04 at 2:35pmSadly, no. I live in the middle of the country and won't get to see DRS until sometime next year.
NYnativeinLA
Chorus Member Joined: 12/30/04
#3re: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Posted: 12/30/04 at 6:27pmTotally delightful and worth the 6 hr. round-trip in S. Calif. traffic.
#4re: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Posted: 12/30/04 at 6:46pmInnocent question -- why is there so much buzz for this show? Is it because it's directed by Jack O'Brien?
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BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#5re: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Posted: 12/30/04 at 6:47pm
because David YAzbek is awesome
points to avatart - oh wait, nm, i changed it
#6re: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Posted: 12/30/04 at 6:54pmwe're going to see this show with school the week after it opens. Had it bee my choice alone, we'd be seeing Spamalot.
You aren't feeling overwhelmed are you?
eslgr8
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/04
#7re: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Posted: 1/1/05 at 4:51pm
Here's my review posted here back in September, just after I saw it in San Diego.
This sensational new musical is HILARIOUS! I have seen hundreds of musicals, and I can’t remember ever laughing this much. And the laughs come as often from David Yazbek’s clever inventive lyrics as from Jeffrey Lane’s equally delightful and occasionally risqué book. And what music! Yazbek’s tunes are melodious and catchy. I only wish I didn’t have to wait until next year for the cast album.
The costumes and sets are colorful and imaginative, and I cannot recall having seen a revolving stage used this effectively.
Finally, the performances! They are all award-worthy. John Lithgow a slick delight, Norbert Leo Butz dazzlingly adorable in a star-making role, Sheri Rene Scott quite delectable and charming, Joanna Gleason and Paul Jbara their usual brilliant selves, and Sara Gettelfinger the kind of scene-stealer that wins awards.
Most of the songs provoked loud cheers along with thunderous applause, and the penultimate duet sung by Lithgow and Butz was followed by the kind of long ovation usually reserved for curtain calls. When the cast did emerge for curtain calls, the audience was on its feet cheering as loudly as did those at the end of Avenue Q and Wicked, Broadway’s two biggest hits.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is magical and dirty and delightful and not the slightest bit rotten!
If it weren’t two hours away, I’d see it again during the run in an instant.
#8re: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Posted: 1/1/05 at 7:52pmthat's nice to know that it is really good! I saw the movie and loved it so the show should be awesome. I have to get tickets now!
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell
plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
#9re: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Posted: 1/1/05 at 7:54pmA little off topic but thespian geek, I love your icon.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#10re: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Posted: 1/1/05 at 7:55pmCant wait for this show! And honestly, I dont know why.
#11re: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Posted: 1/1/05 at 8:01pm
honestly, when do you find a cast like this coming together? Im VERY excited for the recording. 
great re-union for Norbet and Sherie.
Updated On: 1/1/05 at 08:01 PM
jjdude2000
Broadway Star Joined: 12/1/04
#12re: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Posted: 1/1/05 at 8:05pmYay! Thank you...i cant wait to see it now!
Grace: I just gave a quarter to a homeless man. I think it was Johnny Depp.
#13re: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Posted: 1/1/05 at 8:53pmi really really want to see it! i love Yazbeck (sp)
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#14re: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Posted: 1/1/05 at 8:56pm
Alright, NOW I'm excited -- I finally found out what the big broohaha was. What a phenomenal cast!
I'm coming to NYC in mid-February -- considering it's the worst month for Broadway sales, do you think tickets will be available at TKTS, or should I just buy them in advance?
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HEDWIG: "The road is my home. In reflecting upon the people whom I have come upon in my travels, I cannot help but think of the people who have come upon me."
eslgr8
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/04
#15re: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Posted: 1/1/05 at 11:53pmBefore someone posts that DRS is total crap (because no matter how much one person loves something, there'll be someone else who totally disagrees), I should point out that the L.A. Times gave it a bad review. But...I loved it, the audience I saw it with loved it, it was a sell-out hit at the Globe in San Diego, and I believe that it will be a real crowd pleaser in NYC.
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#16re: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Posted: 1/2/05 at 12:08am
I just picked up seats for mid-February and it seems to be selling very well (especially for February). Here's the discount:
http://www.broadwaybox.com/shows/Dirty_Rotten_Scoundrels_472.asp?s=22
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timote316
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/04
#17re: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Posted: 1/2/05 at 12:35amMy friend and I want to go to NY and see some shows, we just don't know which ones, tho. I think I may have to push for DRS, based on your review, eslgr8. I'm looking forward to this show!
#18re: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Posted: 1/5/05 at 3:09pmTook me a long time but I got the seats I wanted but not until July!!!!!!!!!!. I love John Lithgow. I saw him in Sweet Smell of Success and afterwards got his autograph. He is a very nice guy.
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GirlfriendFromCanada
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/7/03
#19re: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Posted: 1/5/05 at 3:12pmI'm really excited about this show. It has a great cast, David Yazbek (who I love), Jerry Mitchell choreography (which I love) and some really hilarious songs. It seems like it's going to be an awesome time.
not_that_girl
Swing Joined: 8/25/04
#20re: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Posted: 1/5/05 at 3:22pm
this show was absolutley amazing...norbert is so phenominaly funny, i was dying laughing the entire time, as was the rest of the audience. (and it was really cute, i was sitting in front of norberts family, and at the end of one of the numbers, 'dirty rotten scoundrals', the audience applauded for a good minute to minute and a half, and his dad was like 'they love him'...aw : )
if you can see this show do, you won't regret it...it's great
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