Save DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS!!
Save DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS!!
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#0Save DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS!!
Posted: 8/17/06 at 11:56pm
Well, Corine isn't here to take care of this so I'm stepping up to the plate.
Let's start a petition!
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#1re: Save DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS!!
Posted: 8/17/06 at 11:59pm
Dolly, darling.
Have you tried the "Dirty Rotten Martini"?
It's DIVINE.
"I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." - Oscar Wilde
COOOOLkid
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/05
#2re: Save DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS!!
Posted: 8/18/06 at 12:04am
Instead of a petition, we should just buy tickets to see the show. 
"Hey, you! You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!"
-Family Guy
#3re: Save DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS!!
Posted: 8/18/06 at 12:07am
I think the best thing we can do is encourage people to go see it.
Maybe people assiciated with the show read this board and we can spread the DRS love... Perhaps extend it a little while?
"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES---
"THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS
Thesbijean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/9/04
#4re: Save DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS!!
Posted: 8/18/06 at 12:13amUnless you guys are able to cause ticket sales to increase about $100,000 every week, there is no chance of the show being salvaged past 9/3...
thevolleyballer
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#5re: Save DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS!!
Posted: 8/18/06 at 12:13amActually, Thesbijean, I hear that NathanLaneStalker is secretly Donald Trump, so that might not be too farfetched after all...
thevolleyballer
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#6re: Save DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS!!
Posted: 8/18/06 at 12:13amDid I really just make fun of someone, and then double post? Oh my gosh. This isn't right. Updated On: 8/18/06 at 12:13 AM
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#7re: Save DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS!!
Posted: 8/18/06 at 1:33am
DRS is closing whether you like it or not. 
There's still the tour!
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
BtMartin25
Featured Actor Joined: 1/4/06
#8re: Save DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS!!
Posted: 8/18/06 at 1:37am
if it ends, another great show can take it's place? :-
sorry, i'm just not that much of a fan.
bt
RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
#9re: Save DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS!!
Posted: 8/18/06 at 1:41amI never understand the reason for these type of threads. The show is closing, it had a healthy run, won some Tonys, it will live on tour and regional theaters. If every show on Broadway ran forever, then we'd never get new shows. Just be glad this show wasn't a total flop.
#10re: Save DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS!!
Posted: 8/18/06 at 1:51am
""I think the best thing we can do is encourage people to go see it."
To expensive, petition is the only way.
#12re: Save DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS!!
Posted: 8/18/06 at 2:14amYeah, I never did get around to seeing it.
"People that excel in the arts understand that the journey is the reward...the result an added bonus. Every day I act or train is a blessing and a dream come true. If Broadway beckons so be it. I have a personal definition of success that is unshakable by a possibly unobtainable goal." -HamletWasBipolar
Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#13re: Save DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS!!
Posted: 8/18/06 at 2:16am
Sadly, this won't work - but it's a lovely gesture for Tom, Rak, Tim, Rachel, Jason, Julie, Roxane, Stephen, Sally Mae, Will, Amy, Chuck, Dennis, and EVERYBODY else who I've forgotten (due to my permanent senior moment), but who are directly responsible for making this the wonderful show it is.
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A click for life.
mamie4 5/14/03
Updated On: 8/18/06 at 02:16 AM
A click for life.
mamie4 5/14/03
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#14re: Save DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS!!
Posted: 8/18/06 at 8:05am
Mamie--Jacqueline, Matt, Jeremy, Greg G, Nina, Timothy, and I forget the name of Laura's replacement
Anyway guys, I think you're missing that this is a tongue-in-cheek thread
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
#15re: Save DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS!!
Posted: 8/18/06 at 8:30am
In a wonderful world, people who made high decisions like "should DRS stay open past 9/3?" would magically read this thread and go - "hey, there are about 30 fans who really like it! Cool!"
However, this is really quite unrealistic. Though we have DRS love, we be a small and not always moneyed group. And sadly, the powers that be decided it's time. And we need places for new shows. Love it while it last and give in!
Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#16re: Save DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS!!
Posted: 8/18/06 at 8:31amFrom Dollypop? Oh no. I'm sure it's genuine.
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A click for life.
mamie4 5/14/03
A click for life.
mamie4 5/14/03
#17re: Save DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS!!
Posted: 8/18/06 at 9:01am
Oh, the intention of this thread is genuine, I have no doubt... But broadway_show_fan said it best: it is unrealistic to think we can actually save the show from closing ... Even though we'd all love to.
"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES---
"THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#18re: Save DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS!!
Posted: 8/18/06 at 9:10am
It was a ball, it was a blast, but sadly this show cannot last.
You should just go and see it one last time. By the way, whoever is reading this thread, do see it before it closes. Or at least wait till it comes to your hometown.
Butters, go buy World of Warcraft, install it on your computer, and join the online sensation before we all murder you.
--Cartman: South Park
ATTENTION FANS: I will be played by James Barbour in the upcoming musical, "BroadwayWorld: The Musical."
#19re: Save DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS!!
Posted: 8/18/06 at 9:33am
It will have lived well on Broadway with it's Tony-hurrahs, other awards and such. The run wasn't too bad in length either - though someone high and mighty has a weird sense of humor with it having played "666" performances.
What a great show, but, alas, the curtain's gotta go down for the curtain to come up on, say, Curtains or High Fidelity. If anything, petition for some sort of magic to be made and create new/bigger/more Broadway houses!
mejusthavingfun
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/12/06
#21re: Save DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS!!
Posted: 8/18/06 at 10:05am
After seeing the show on Broadway and on tour, I have to say that much of the charm was in the original cast. Without them, a lot of the charm is lost. It has run its course.
Parks
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/04
#22re: Save DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS!!
Posted: 8/18/06 at 11:00am
I loved the original cast. Last time, I didn't see a single original cast member except for Joanna (who, of course, was fabulous) but the show wasn't half as good as it was when I first saw it.
If John and Norbert came back to Broadway, the show could be saved.
"If it walks like a Parks, if it wobbles like a Parks, then it's definitely fat and nobody loves it." --MA
kate2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/6/05
#23re: Save DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS!!
Posted: 8/18/06 at 11:34amR.I.P. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. It's a shame that such a great show has to close.
#24re: Save DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS!!
Posted: 8/18/06 at 11:38amI have changed my avatar in hope that more people will see this WONDERFUL show.
<--- the set of A Midsummer Night's Dream that I was assistant stage manager for during the 2007 season at the STNJ outdoor stage.
-Dre- You must remember all the same that at the crux of every game is knowing when it's time to leave the table... And it's important to be artful in your exit. No turning back, you must accept the con is done... It was a ball, it was a blast. And it's a shame it couldn't last. But every chapter has to end, you must agree.
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
There's a special kind of people known as show people. We live in a world full of dreams. Sometimes we're not too certain what's false and what's real. But we're seldom in doubt about what we feel.
~Curtains~
It is a far, far better thing I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to, than I have ever known.
~A Tale of Two Cities ~
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
~Curtains~
~A Tale of Two Cities ~
#25re: Save DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS!!
Posted: 8/18/06 at 11:42amGuys, 600+ performances is a damned good run. It might just recoup by the end (although I doubt it). Let's just leave well enough alone. It's sad, but it was fun while it lasted.
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