Just saw Dirty Rotten Scoundrels....

what were some stand out songs and would a cast recording be worth getting if one is made

awesome. I am seeing it august 10th. I haven't heard to many negative reviews so I am looking forward to it

What style of music is it? Who is the composer? Thanks.

Umm, okay. It is true. When you are watching it, it is great, and after it is still great, you just can't remember a lot of what you heard. Hard to explain. It was crafted very well. It was cheap laughs, but most of the time they are more making fun of cheap laughs, so it is even funnier. And by the way, there is no such thing as a nonsensical critique. That is the beauty of free speech. If you disagree (if you have actually seen it ) then fine, but, I stand by what I said

Yeah, exactly. It is a great score and the lyrics are great.

It is like a mix of campiness from The Producers and, gosh, I dunno, I'll have to think about this one...

See, in this show, you know laughs are coming, but they come from completely out of left field (what the joke is actually). That is what is so funny. Joanna Gleason actually got the most laughs and the most exit applause, and rightfully so.

Yeah. I know Sara Ramirez and Maureen McGovern are already being talked about for Best Featured Actress, but they better watch out. She was fantastic, and whenever she walked onstage I was like wow, the original baker's wife. She is really a piece of theatre history, kind of amazing...

All criticism is an opinion...

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nevermind

glad you liked the show

Updated On: 2/3/05 at 01:32 AM

How is it selling?

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This is a good question of whether the laughs are cheap or earned. Truly, its a bit of a combination. The great thing about the humor of the show is the expected jokes keep coming and coming, so you are continuously laughing. Then suddenly a completely unexpected joke will happen, and it puts the hilarity over the edge.

A number of the jokes were breaking the fourth wall, and while by the end I knew they were coming, I was still suprised by the joke itself each time.

But most importantly, the jokes were organic and character-based, arising in a logical and believable way from the situation occuring on stage. Meaning, most of the jokes were something the character might actually say, were they a real person having a real conversation. In this sense, while the humor is not quite at the "Into the Woods" level, I would give it much more credit than "The Producers."

As some others have said, Joanna Gleason's comic timing is ideal for this type of humor. She is so smooth and arch and low-key and never pushes, and makes even an obvious joke enjoyable. For this reason I felt that she was more successful with the humorous dialogue than Norbert Leo Butz, who is very funny but never seems to relax and let the joke happen.