The con is on.
A concert version of the 2005 Broadway musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels will play two performances at the London Palladium November 24.
Marking 20 years since the musical premiered at San Diego's Old Globe, the concerts will feature Ramin Karimloo (Les Misérables, upcoming City Center Encores! Titanic) as the scrappy underdog Freddy Benson and Hadley Fraser (The Pirate Queen, Les Misérables) as the smooth Laurence Jamieson, who go head-to-head to woo an heiress out of $50,000.
Directed by Rupert Hands, the cast will also include Carly Mercedes Dyer as Christine Colgate, Janie Dee as Muriel Eubanks, Rufus Hound as Inspector Andre, and Lauren Drew as Jolene Oaks.
The concerts, which will also feature a live orchestra and the Mountainview Choir, is produced by Lambert Jackson and Positive Sum. Additional casting and creative team members will be announced at a later date.
Based on the 1988 movie, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels features a score by David Yazbek and a book by Jeffrey Lane. The 2005 Broadway premiere, co-starring John Lithgow and Norbert Leo Butz, was nominated for 11 Tony Awards with Butz winning the Tony for Best Actor in a Musical.
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