Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, 2005

The run closed September 3, 2006

Opened

March 3, 2005

Closed

September 3, 2006

Performances

627

Previews

Unknown

Theatre

Imperial Theatre

Of the 397 productions we hold that opened in the 2000s and carry a performance count, this is the 37th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it35 named

Timothy J Alex
Andrew Asnes
Roxane Barlow
Stephen Campanella
Julie Connors
Rachel Debenedet
Laura Marie Duncan
Sally Mae Dunn
Tom Galantich
Jason Gillman
Amy Heggins
Grasan Kingsberry
Michael Paternostro
Rachelle Rak
Brian D Arcy James
Jacqueline Bayne
Will Erat
Joan Hess
Timothy Edward Smith
Dennis Stowe
Matt Wall

14 of these 35 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 21 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Characters6 roles held

John Lithgow Lawrence Jameson
Norbert Leo Butz Freddy Benson
Sherie Rene Scott Christine Colgate
Joanna Gleason Muriel Eubanks
Gregory Jbara Inspector Andre Thibault
Sara Gettelfinger Jolene Oakes

These came out of a wiki table. The names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.

Creative team

Director

Jack O'Brien

Choreographer

Jerry Mitchell

Producer

Marty Bell, David Brown, Aldo Scrofani, Roy Furman, Dede Harris, Amanda Lipitz, Greg Smith, Ruth Hendel, Chase Mishkin, Barry Tatelman, Susan Tatelman, Debra Black, Sharon Karmazin, Joyce Schweickert, Bernie Abrams, Michael Speyer, Barbara Whitman, Weissberger Theater Group (Jay Harris,

Orchestrations

Harold Wheeler

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination

Best Musical

Nominated

Recordings 2 held for the work

None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.

Around this production

Bob Martin said, “We heard the news about your closing backstage at The Drowsy Chaperone and there was just silence. Like a death in the family.” Yeah. I remember a sea of microphones being shoved in my face on my way to my car one December dawn while being asked that same answerless question regarding my father’s death in 1986. The Playbill Broadway Yearbook Third Annual Edition Viagas Robert 3rd Annual Ed , p. 122

• Both John Lithgow as the old-time crook and Norbert Leo Butz as the upstart criminal had their grand moments, but Butz got the Tony award for Best Actor in a Musical. Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 319
• Mitchell, Jerry Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Full Monty, The Gypsy Hairspray La Cage aux Folles Legally Blonde Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 390
• In 2005 Gleason was nominated for Tony and Drama Desk Awards for her featured actress performance in the musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels as wealthy Muriel Eubanks, a role written with her in mind. The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia Rick Pender Rowman Littlefield Publishing Lanh, p. 306
• This year’s highlights included songs from 9 to 5, The Wild Party, High Fidelity, Rent, Young Frankenstein, Mamma Mia, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Rent, Wicked, and Miss Saigon, along with Sherrie Sheppard's rousing rendition of “Proud Mary.” Theatre World 2009 2010 Season V 66 Willis, p. 204
• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels 627 performances Opened March 3, 2005 Closed September 3, 2006 Theatre World 2009 2010 Season V 66 Willis, p. 460

Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging.
• Which of the 2 recordings of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels document this run, if any.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.