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THE SCAMMING, SCHEMING, DOUBLE-CROSSING HIT BROADWAY MUSICAL 'DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS' HEADS FOR CARNIVAL CENTER'S ZIFF BALLET OPERA HOUSE, DECEMBER 5-10 AS SECOND OF 2006-2007 STANFORD BROADWAY ACROSS AMERICA-MIAMI 5 PRODUCTION THEATRICAL SEASON PRESENTED BY MOËT & CHANDON

The National Tour of the scamming, scheming, double-crossing hit Broadway musical, DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS, is coming to Miami's Carnival Center for the Performing Arts, opening Tuesday, December 5–Sunday, December 10. Starring Tony-nominated actor />/>Tom Hewitt ( Rocky Horror Show) as the suave and sophisticated con man Lawrence Jameson. Joining him will be Timothy Gulan as cohort Freddy Benson, the brash and vulgar swindler Lawrence takes under his wing.

DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS reunites />/>David Yazbek (music and lyrics) with Tony Award winners Jack O'Brien (direction) and />/>Jerry Mitchell (choreography), the Tony-nominated team behind The Full Monty. The raucous new musical comedy show features a book by />/>Jeffrey Lane that keeps audiences laughing, humming and guessing to the very end.

DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS will play Tuesday, December 5 through Sunday, December 10 with performances Tuesday through Saturday evenings at 8pm, Sunday evening at 7:30pm and Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2pm.

Tickets range from $24.00 - $70.00 not including applicable handling or service charges. Purchase tickets only from the following authorized ticket sellers at Broadway Across America – Miami, Carnival Center for the Performing Arts or Ticketmaster. Tickets can be purchased in person through Carnival Center Box Office or by phone at 305-949-6722 or online at www.carnivalcenter.org. Tickets are also available through Ticketmaster phones at 954-523-3309 in Broward, 305-358-5885 in Dade, and 561-966-3309 in Palm Beach or at www.ticketmaster.com and at Ticketmaster outlets. Orders for groups of 20 or more may be placed by calling the Broadway Across America at 1-800-6GROUPS (647-6877) or Carnival Center at 305-949-6722.

Based on the popular 1988 MGM film, DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS centers on two con men living on the French Riviera – the suave and sophisticated Lawrence Jameson, who makes his lavish living by talking rich ladies out of their money; and a small-time crook named Freddy Benson, who, more humbly, swindles women by waking their compassion with fabricated stories about his grandmother's failing health. After meeting on a train, they unsuccessfully attempt to work together only to find that this small French town isn't big enough for the two of them. So they make a bet: the first one to swindle $50,000 from a young heiress, triumphs and the other must leave town. What follows are a series of schemes, masquerades and double-crosses in which nothing may ever be exactly what it seems.

/>/>Tom Hewitt ( Lawrence Jameson) has appeared on Broadway as the title role in Dracula, The Musical , as Frank N. Furter in The Rocky Horror Show (for which he was nominated for Tony and Drama Desk awards), and as Scar in The Lion King.  Other Broadway credits include The Boys from Syracuse, School for Scandal, and The Sisters Rosenzweig.  He has toured as Officer Lockstock in the National Tour of Urinetown. His Off-Broadway credits include Jeffrey, Beau Jest(Outer Critics nomination), Richard III, and Othello. Recent Regional Credits include Private Lives and Travesties at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven (CT Critics Circle Award), Compleat Female Stage Beauty at the Old Globe, Captain Hook in Peter Pan with />/>Cathy Rigby at Casa Manana, Zhivago and Dracula, The Musical at the LaJolla Playhouse, Uncle Vanya at the Arena Stage, Racing Demon and Blithe Spirit at the Guthrie, and Antony and Cleopatra at the Shakespeare Theater. His television and film credits include roles on "Law and Order," "Third Watch," "Frasier," "The George Carlin Show," narration for The Discovery Channel, and />/>Julie Taymor's Fool's Fire.  Tom is a native of Montana.

TIMOTHY GULAN ( Freddy Benson) is married to actress Elise Molinelli. His credits on Broadway and on tour include Jerry/Daphne (with Tony Curtis as Osgood)  in Some Like it Hot, The Frogs, The Lion King, Blood Brothers, Carousel , Les Miserables, Falsettos, and Picasso at the Lapine Agile. Other NY credits include />/>I Love You, You' re Perfect, Now Change, Jackson Pollack in Get in the Car, Passion(Live from Lincoln Center), South Pacific at Carnegie Hall, Romeo and Juliet, Tell Tale Heart, and Drift. Regionally, Gulan has created roles in premieres such as Harry Houdini in Houdini (Goodspeed Opera House, and NYMTF), Brighella in the King Stag (Yale Rep), Cooking Stove/Kangaroo in Just So (Goodspeed), Man #1 in Adventures in Love (Ordway), Seeley in Eliot Ness . . . in Cleveland(Denver Center).  On film and on TV, Gulan was seen as Gunter in The Producers, Tomasz in Solidarity, Robots, Ice Age, Valliante, Mother and Child, PBS's Passionand South Pacific, Guiding Light, and Sex and the City.

Other casting includes />/>Laura Marie Duncan as "American Soap Queen" Christine Colgate; Hollis Resnik as Muriel Eubanks; Drew McVety as Andre; and />/>Jenifer Foote as Jolene. The ensemble includes />/>Todd Anderson, />/>Tim Craskey, />/>Beth Curry, Christopher DeAngelis, Ashley Blair Fitzgerald, Christopher Freeman, />/>Rod Harrelson, />/>Ken Krugman, Juliana Laufer, Emily Loftiss, />/>Natalie Nucci, Jim Osorno, Martin Samuel, />/>Kim Shriver, Sarrah Strimel, Francis Toumbakaris, and Nicole Van Giesen.

DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS opened on Broadway in March 2005 to rave reviews. The New York Times' Ben Brantley called it, "The most eagerly awaited new musical of the season." Clive Barnes ( New York Post) raved, "A knockout punch to Broadway's funnybone! One of the liveliest, funniest, best-performed musicals in years. Supersmart and superior in every way." And Terry Teachout ( The Wall Street Journal ) proclaimed, "I know funny when I see it, and this show is a perfect hoot! A big hit." DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS was awarded 11 Tony Award nominations, including Best Musical. The show had its world premiere at San Diego's Old Globe Theatre in September 2004.

DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS features the music and lyrics of />/>David Yazbek ( The Full Monty) with direction by Jack O'Brien ( Hairspray, The Full Monty, Damn Yankees), choreography by />/>Jerry Mitchell ( La Cage aux Folles, Hairspray, The Full Monty, Gypsy), and a book by />/>Jeffrey Lane. The design team includes />/>David Rockwell (sets), />/>Gregg Barnes (costumes), Kenneth Posner (lighting) and Acme Sound Partners (sound). />/>Ted Sperling serves as musical director and the orchestrations are by Harold Wheeler.

The DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS National Tour is produced by The Dirty Rotten Producers in association with MGM ON STAGE. The executive producers are />/>Marty Bell and Aldo Scrofani.

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