Naughty Words in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels?
Naughty Words in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels?
Joined: 12/31/69
#0Naughty Words in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels?
Posted: 5/12/05 at 9:41pm
I'm listening to the Cast Recording and there are (I think) three times that they use a "Dirty" word and every time I hear it I flinch. God Knows, I swear like a trucker, so it's not that I'm a Prude. It's just that this show seems like such a "Matinee" show that I'm surprised they drop a couple of F-Bombs. Rent, Taboo, Company, nothing shocks me.
It seems like a perfect show to take Mom to-- anyone know why they decided to go for a PG-13 rating?
#1re: Naughty Words in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels?
Posted: 5/12/05 at 9:42pmI think most of the language comes from Freddy... he's not a very refined guy. Makes sense for him toss in a few dirty words.
#2re: Naughty Words in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels?
Posted: 5/12/05 at 9:50pmOff the top of my head two are from Great Big Stuff.
I want to write music. I want to sit down right now at my piano and write a song that people will listen to and remember and do the same thing every morning...for the rest of my life. - Jonathan Larson. Tick, Tick...BOOM!
TheGaIsSilent
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/25/04
#3re: Naughty Words in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels?
Posted: 5/12/05 at 9:50pmThere are surely some sexual words, and the s-bomb, but there's no f-word in the whole show... I'm not sure what you're talking about.
JOHN LITHGOW
I just realized, your last name is Butz! Both "Norbert" AND "Butz" are in your name! You must have gotten picked on a lot as a child!
#4re: Naughty Words in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels?
Posted: 5/12/05 at 9:51pmNot in Sara's song?
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
TheGaIsSilent
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/25/04
#5re: Naughty Words in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels?
Posted: 5/12/05 at 9:53pmHmm... ohhhh, yeah there is that one incident in Oklahoma?.
JOHN LITHGOW
I just realized, your last name is Butz! Both "Norbert" AND "Butz" are in your name! You must have gotten picked on a lot as a child!
#6re: Naughty Words in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels?
Posted: 5/12/05 at 9:53pmYes the big f-bomb is dropped in Oklahoma?.
I want to write music. I want to sit down right now at my piano and write a song that people will listen to and remember and do the same thing every morning...for the rest of my life. - Jonathan Larson. Tick, Tick...BOOM!
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#7re: Naughty Words in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels?
Posted: 5/12/05 at 9:53pm
Oklahoma. "Shoot those little f*ckers heads clean off" was the line that caught my attention-- Not from Freddy, but from the "sweet lil thing."
Edited cause I checked the lyrics!
Updated On: 5/12/05 at 09:53 PM
#8re: Naughty Words in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels?
Posted: 5/12/05 at 9:54pmPlus, "Oklahoma" has some light-hearted Anti-Semitism.
#9re: Naughty Words in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels?
Posted: 5/12/05 at 11:50pmThe show is not and was not intended to be a "matinee" show. The humor is very sexual in several places, and very, very funny. Jolleene Ochs is not a "Sweet Little Thing" at all! Everything works really well for the characters but it seems like it is really a different show than you were expecting. I love it, but it is not "family friendly" although I don't actually think most of the stuff goes all that far.
I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.
TheGaIsSilent
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/25/04
#10re: Naughty Words in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels?
Posted: 5/13/05 at 12:01amHow'd do you do? :)
JOHN LITHGOW
I just realized, your last name is Butz! Both "Norbert" AND "Butz" are in your name! You must have gotten picked on a lot as a child!
#11re: Naughty Words in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels?
Posted: 5/13/05 at 12:05am
Me? I'm doing well! Going to see Bee Friday night so that's fun.
y tu?
I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.
TheGaIsSilent
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/25/04
#12re: Naughty Words in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels?
Posted: 5/13/05 at 12:05amLOL, penguin, I was quoting from Ruprecht.
JOHN LITHGOW
I just realized, your last name is Butz! Both "Norbert" AND "Butz" are in your name! You must have gotten picked on a lot as a child!
#13re: Naughty Words in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels?
Posted: 5/13/05 at 12:07am
Aw-kward. 
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
#14re: Naughty Words in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels?
Posted: 5/13/05 at 12:12am
So nobody likes me I get it.
i learned more from that old broad than i've ever learned from YOU!
I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.
TheGaIsSilent
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/25/04
#15re: Naughty Words in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels?
Posted: 5/13/05 at 12:12amWhite Plains.
JOHN LITHGOW
I just realized, your last name is Butz! Both "Norbert" AND "Butz" are in your name! You must have gotten picked on a lot as a child!
#16re: Naughty Words in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels?
Posted: 5/13/05 at 12:14amSIX HOURS!
I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.
#17re: Naughty Words in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels?
Posted: 5/13/05 at 9:22amThe language is fine for the show. Not every production has to be fit for little kiddies.
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