A Touring Musical to See

[Bilbo]

I think that the current tour of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, starring Norbert Leo Butts (if I somehow got that name right) is the funniest musical I have seen, since maybe as long ago as when I first saw Forum.

PS. I'm sorry if someone, even myself, has already mentioned this. I know I shouldn't repeat things, but its been that kinda week. }(

[Steven_Draker]

I saw Dirty Rotten Scoundrels in NYC. Very funny show.

 

SD ~

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[+ BenjaminNicholas]

Butts is hilarious and deservedly won the Tony for his performance opposite John Lithgow for 'DRS.' After Lithgow left the show (to mixed reviews), Jonathan Price (Miss Saigon, Glengary Glen Ross) took over the role and REALLY blew critics away. He was great.

 

Norbert is only touring with the show for the next 5-6 weeks, so catch him while you can

 

 

BN

[+ Lucky]

Wel, I should have read this before I commented on Ben's tastes differing from mine. Norbert Lee Butz is fantastic in this show...definitely one of the best comedy perfomances ever. But I think I mentioned that last July!

[edjames]

That's BUTZ, baby, not BUTTS!

 

Norbert Leo Butz deserved his Tony. He was wonderful.

ED

[Rick Munroe]

>Butts is hilarious

 

Only when they's in thongs! :+

[+ BenjaminNicholas]

Argh. You are correct fine sir! My mistake

 

Butz. Must have been a Freudian slip...

 

 

BN

[Bilbo]

Universe sent me to the middle of my book of Wicked - just starting to read the novel, already saw the musical on tour - last night and I saw there that he was the original Fiero on Broadway. Wow! Finding out more about him might be the final staw, finally, to make me go to IBDB for the first time.

[Guest Jocoluver]

I saw him in DRS in Los Angeles a few weeks ago. Totally one of the funniest performances ever! Is he still touring? What cities now? (in San Diego after LA).

[Bilbo]

Well, of course, I saw him in Houston, but I don't know where he is now.

[Tommygunzz]

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is playing in Dallas for most of October. It's the featured musical at the State Fair of Texas.

[Guest EWC]

FYI

 

Dallas The Music Hall at Fair Park 10.03.06 - 10.22.06

Columbus Ohio Theater 10.24.06 - 10.29.06

Atlanta The Fox Theatre 10.31.06 - 11.05.06

Louisville Kentucky Center 11.07.06 - 11.12.06

Tampa Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center 11.14.06 - 11.19.06

Baltimore Hippodrome Theater 11.21.06 - 12.03.06

Miami Carnival Center for the Performing Arts 12.05.06 - 12.10.06

Fort Myers Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall 12.12.06 - 12.17.06

Cincinnati Aronoff Center 12.19.06 - 12.31.06

Milwaukee Marcus Center for the Performing Arts 01.02.07 - 01.07.07

Minneapolis Orpheum Theatre 01.09.07 - 01.14.07

Appleton Fox Cities Performing Arts Center 01.16.07 - 01.21.07

Pittsburgh Benedum Center 01.23.07 - 01.28.07

Raleigh Raleigh Memorial Auditorium 01.30.07 - 02.04.07

Sarasota Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall 02.06.07 - 02.11.07

Charlotte Blumenthal Performing Arts Center - Belk Theater 02.13.07 - 02.18.07

Norfolk Chrysler Hall 02.20.07 - 02.25.07

Providence Providence Performing Arts Center 02.27.07 - 03.04.07

Boston The Opera House 03.06.07 - 03.18.07

Buffalo Sheas Performing Arts Center 03.20.07 - 03.25.07

St. Louis The Fox Theatre 03.27.07 - 04.08.07

San Antonio The Majestic Theatre 04.10.07 - 04.15.07

Tucson Tucson Music Hall 04.17.07 - 04.22.07

Salt Lake City Capitol Theatre 04.24.07 - 04.29.07

San Jose San Jose Center for the Performing Arts 05.01.07 - 05.13.07

Sacramento The Community Center Theater 05.16.07 - 05.27.07

Hartford The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts 06.05.07 - 06.10.07

Cleveland Playhouse Square Center 06.12.07 - 06.24.07

San Diego San Diego Civic Theatre 07.17.07 - 07.22.07

Chicago Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University 07.31.07 - 08.12.07

[Bilbo]

Avenue Q

 

BTW, hasn't Avenue Q closed in Las Vegas now? Has anybody heard anything about them doing a tour now?

[Guest Jocoluver]

But will Butz stay with the show thru July '07? Without him, it immediately closed on Broadway and it is not a good enough show to have legs without his performance.

[+ BenjaminNicholas]

RE: Avenue Q

 

Q is gearing up for a national tour, but is having to back-track to get support because they burnt bridges when signing 'exclusively' with Wynn for their Las Vegas production. While the ass-kissing will mainly be a formality at this point, the tour is predicted to do well.

 

Butz (imo) was never originally intended to be the 'name' or heart of DRS. They originally brought Lithgow into the show (even though, yes, he didn't win the Tony for that performance) to be the marquee ringer, but it turned out that Butz's performance was so incredibly over-the-top and cynical, that he snagged a trophy as well as the audience.

 

The aesthetic of the show changed quite a bit when Jonathan Pryce replaced Lithgow. Butz finally had someone he could go toe-to-toe with characterwise. It was a fantastic pairing. Much like in 'Sweet Smell of Success,' it seemed that Lithgow just wasn't cut out for either of those two musical roles.

 

 

BN

[Bilbo]

I doubt if he is really the only clown that could carry it off, even in these times when we don't have as many good clowns as we need.

And I object to the word "cynical" when describing his joy filleld performance.