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NOVEMBER 7, 8, 9 @ 7:30 pm
NOVEMBER 9 @ 2:00 pm
NOVEMBER 14, 15, 16 @ 7:30 pm
On the Main Stage
Admin/Performing Arts Building

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Welcome to the opening production of the 2024-2025 Theatre Season here at Lone Star College-Kingwood! We are excited to see you back in the theatre with us!

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A Note from the Artistic Director:

Hello Again, Theatre Lovers - Welcome Back! We are excited to be opening our 2024-2025 Theatre Season "A Touch of Mystery" with the 2004 Broadway hit Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

You might remember a movie of the same title way back in 1988 starring Michael Caine and Steve Martin. Our DIRTY ROTTEN musical tonight is a direct adaptation by the brilliant David Yazbek (The Full Monty, The Bands Visit) of that Frank Oz film. The 1988 film actually comes from an earlier screwball comedy called Bedtime Story starring David Niven and Marlon Brando. Quite the legacy for a fun little show about some serious DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS.

It was a blast putting this show together. Early production meetings with Meredith, our designer, told me that this DIRTY ROTTEN set was going to be something special. Auditions were full of talented folks & this cast is something else - they bring all their passion and joy to each rehearsal. Long hours of rehearsals and dance calls demonstrated their commitment. Performances show just how much fun this DIRTY ROTTEN cast is having.

Thank you for attending shows & supporting Live Theatre.  Please remember that every penny of your DIRTY ROTTEN ticket price goes right back into the Theatre Scholarship Fund here on campus. This semester we awarded $3,000 DIRTY ROTTEN dollars to students. We've awarded $54,750 in scholarships since 2012 because YOU attend our shows!

Now...sit back and have a DIRTY ROTTEN time!

Eric C. Skiles, Director

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Based on the Film
"Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"
written by Dale Launer and
Stanley Shapiro & Paul Henning

Original Broadway production directed
by Jack O'Brien

Produced on Broadway by Marty Bell, David Brown, Aldo Scrofani, Roy Furman, Dede Harris, Amanda Lipitz, Greg Smith, Ruth Hendel, Chase Mishkin, and Barry and Susan Tatelman, Debra Black, Sharon karmazin, Joyce Schweickert, Bernie Abrams/Michael Speyer Barbara Whitman, Weissberger Theater Group/Jay Harris, Cheryl Wiesenfeld/jean Cheever, Clear Channel Entertainment and Harvey Weinstein

in association with
MGM On Stage/
Darcie Denkert & Dean Stolber

World Premiere at the
Old Globe Theatre
San Diego, California
Artistic Director: Jack O'Brien
Executive Director: Louis G. Spisto

Orchestrations by
Harold Wheeler

Vocal Music Arrangements by
Ted Sperling/David Yabzek

Dance Music Arrangements by
Zane Mark