Last week it was announced that Jerry Mitchell will direct the West End premiere of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at the Savoy Theatre starring Robert Lindsay, Rufus Hound and Katherine Kingsley. The show has music and lyrics by David Yazbek and book by Jeffery Lane. You can meet the team below and click here for more information about the show. Tickets are on sale now.
Robert Lindsay (Lawrence Jameson) is an Olivier, Tony and BAFTA award-winning actor. He is best known for his brilliantly comedic performance in My Family, which ran for nine series and for which he was nominated for the 2001 BAFTA for Best Comedy Performance. His on stage credits include: Me And My Girl, alongside Emma Thompson, The Lion In Winter at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, Onassis at Derby Playhouse/Novello Theatre, Aristo at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, The Entertainer and Trelawny Of The Wells both at the Old Vic, Power at the National Theatre, Richard III at the Savoy Theatre, Oliver! at the Palladium Theatre, Cyrano De Bergerac at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, Becket at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, and Philoctetes at the Royal Exchange Theatre
Rufus Hound (Freddy Benson) is best known as a comedian, TV and radio personality and performer. Rufus’ theatre credits include the National Theatre’s One Man, Two Guvnors at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket/UK Tour and Neville’s Island at the Chichester Festival Theatre. He won Let’s Dance for Sport Relief 2010, and regularly appeared in Celebrity Juice, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Would I Lie To You, 8 Out Of 10 Cats, You Have Been Watching, Mad Mad World and Argumental. Rufus is also well known as a TV presenter, with credits including Top Of The Pops, Glastonbury and The Brits: Backstage. His screen credits include The Wedding Video, A Touch Of Cloth 2, Big Fat Gypsy Gangster and Hounded.
Katherine Kingsley’s (Christine Colgate) last musical theatre role was in Singinʼ In The Rain at Chichester Festival Theatre/Palace Theatre for which she was nominated for the 2012 Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical. Her other theatre credits include: A Midsummer Nightʼs Dream at the Noel Coward Theatre, Relative Values at Bath Theatre Royal, The 24 Hour Musical Celebrity Gala at The Old Vic, Heart To Heart at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, Dusk Rings A Bell for the Hightide Festival, The 25th Annual Putnum County Spelling Bee at the Donmar Warehouse, Company for Sondheims 80th Celebration at the Donmar Warehouse/Queens Theatre, Aspects Of Love at the Menier Chocolate Factory, The 39 Steps at Liverpool Playhouse and UK Tour, Piaf! at the Donmar Warehouse/Vaudeville Theatre, West End, for which she was nominated for the 2009 Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical, Hobsonʼs Choice at Chichester Festival Theatre, High Society at the Shaftesbury Theatre, West End, Habeas Corpus at the Northcott Theatre, Exeter, The Memory Of Water at Bristol Old Vic and Suddenly At Home at the Theatre Royal Windsor.
Jeffrey Lane (Book) is a multi-award winning writer who most recently collaborated with David Yazbek on the musical version of Pedro Almodovar's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. His work for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels earned him Tony and Drama Desk award nominations, as well as the Drama League Award for Best Musical. Jeffrey is best known for screen writing television shows, many of which were comedies, including Mad About You, which ran from 1992 to 1999 starring Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt, Ryan's Hope, Lou Grant, Cagney & Lacey, The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd and the miniseries The Murder of Mary Phagan. Jeffrey has won five Emmy Awards, three Writers Guild Awards, two Peabody’s, a Golden Globe and the Christopher Award.
David Yazbek’s (Music & Lyrics) musical writing for Broadway includes The Full Monty, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. He was nominated for Tony Awards for all three productions. For television David has written for Late Night with David Letterman, for which he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing, The Puzzle Place (Co-creator), and many theme songs including Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego and Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego. As an artist, his albums include The Laughing Man, Tock, Damascus, Tape Recorder and Evil Monkey Man. As a producer David has been nominated three times for a Grammy Award. His work includes Testimonial Dinner: The music of XTC, The Full Monty,Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?, Carmen Sandiego: Out of this World, as well as his five solo albums.
Jerry Mitchell (Director & Choreographer) recently won a Tony Award for choreographing Kinky Boots on Broadway. He made his Broadway and West End debuts as director and choreographer of the Olivier award winning Legally Blonde. His other credits as a choreographer include: the Broadway production of Catch Me If You Can and the West End production of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies, La Cage aux Folles, for which Mitchell received Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics’ Circle Awards, Hairspray, for which he received Olivier, Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics’ Circle and Astaire Award nominations and The Full Monty which again he received Tony, Drama Desk and Astaire Award nominations.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels opens at the Savoy Theatre on Wednesday 2nd April 2014 (previews from 10th March). Click here to book tickets.
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