Starring: - John Lithgow
- Sherie Rene Scott
- Norbert Leo Butz
Description:
With this giddily entertaining show, David Yazbek confirms that The Full Monty wasn't a fluke--few on Broadway can equal his melodic verve and lyrical cleverness. Based on the 1988 movie of the same name, the show deals with a pair of con artists swindling rich women on the French Riviera. Lithgow brings debonair charm to the Michael Caine part, while Norbert Leo Butz (Wicked) proves to be a comic dynamo in the Steve Martin part. And Yazbek provides them with an array of catchy tunes (adorned in beautiful Bacharach-style arrangements by Harold Wheeler). Butz goes ballistic on the hilarious "Great Big Stuff," which demolishes conspicuous consumption, then pairs up with feisty leading lady Sherie Rene Scott on "Love Is My Legs," a wicked sendup of Celine DionÂstyle torch epics. Meanwhile, Lightgow nails the tender ballad "Love Sneaks In." A delicious jazz reprise of "Nothing Is Too Wonderful to Be True" by Scott and pianist Bill Charlap shows that Yazbek's songs don't need flashy pizzazz to be memorable.
1. Overture
2. Give Them What They Want
3. What Was A Woman To Do
4. Great Big Stuff
5. Chimp In A Suit
6. Oklahoma?
7. All About Ruprecht
8. Here I Am
9. Nothing Is Too Wonderful To Be True
10. Miracle, The
11. Ruffhousin' Mit Shuffhausen
12. Like Zis/Like Zat
13. More We Dance, The
14. Love Is My Legs
15. Love Sneaks In
16. Son Of Great Big Stuff
17. Message From John Lithgow, A
18. Reckoning, The
19. Dirty Rotten Number
20. Finale
21. Here I Am - (demo)
22. All About Ruprecht - (demo)
23. Nothing Is Too Wonderful To Be True - (demo)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
