What a difference new house and a new director make! North Shore Music
Theatre's current production of DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS breathes new life
into a book that during the national tour appeared bland and
underwhelming. To be unfair, the score by David Yazbek resembled a
watered-down of his previous THE FULL MONTY. To be fair, the DRS tunes
sounded both professional and efficient at best.
Under the attentive direction of Mark Martino, both the story and humor
spring to vibrant life, and musical director Steven Freeman makes the
songs catchy and full of wit and wisdom.
Thanks, of course, also have to go to the outstanding leads Brent Barrett,
D.B. Bonds, and Brynn O'Malley, who play so well off each other one would
swear they'd been performing this production for years.
The same can be said for the featured roles performed by Jennifer Cody,
Lynne Winterstellar, and John Scherer, who are not only hilarious in their
own rights, but because they are clearly having a great time, the audience
is right there with them.
Not to be overlooked is Denis Jones's vivid and sharp choreography, and the ensemble is
a pure joy to experience.
The entire cast and crew know how give us what we want, and that's a
fun-filled afternoon or evening at a theatre who deserves future
productions such as this one.
GRADE - A.
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