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Byline: Adam Green
They're having too much fun-I've got to spray them down with a garden hose," director Jack O'Brien says of John Lithgow, Sherie Rene Scott, and Norbert Leo Butz, the stars of the upcoming Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. During the show's fall tryout in San Diego, audience reaction was reportedly so tumultuous that O'Brien had to warn his cast more than once to stay focused on character, not shtick. "They would nod sagely, and their eyes would brim with tears," he recalls. "Then they'd go out there, and the next thing you knew, they'd be all but showing the audience their fannies."
Chalk it up to exuberance. Based on the 1988 Michael Caine- Steve Martin screen hit about two con men on the French Riviera competing to fleece an apparently naive American heiress, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels offers actors the sort of juicy comedic roles that Lithgow says are "like raw meat to a tiger." Scott, delightful as a libidinous teen in 2002's cult hit Debbie Does Dallas, once again plays a midwestern girl with a ...