DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS PLAY CAST - SHOW BILL SIGNED CO-SIGNED BY: JOHN LITHGOW, SHERIE RENE SCOTT, NORBERT LEO BUTZ, GREGORY JBARA, SARA GETTELFINGER - HFSID 309223

DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS PLAY CAST
Playbill for a production at New York's Imperial Theatre, signed on the front cover by 5 cast members
Show Bill signed: "John Lithgow", "Sherie Rene Scott", "Norbert/Leo Butz", "Gregory Jbara", "Sara Gettelfinger", 5½x8½, 51 pages. In all 5 signatures. Playbill for the premiere production of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at the Imperial Theatre, New York, March 3, 2005 to September 3, 2006. The play ran for 627 performances and earned eleven Tony nominations, including Best Musical. Norbert Leo Butz won for Best Actor in a Musical, despite competition in that category from John Lithgow. Sherie Rene Scott was nominated for Best Actress. A distinguished actor of stage, television, and movies who is at home playing everything from menacing villains, big-hearted transsexuals, and loopy aliens, JOHN LITHGOW (b. 1945) is also a composer and performer of children's songs, a Harvard graduate and a talented painter. Lithgow got his start in the early 1970s on Broadway. He remained in New York for many years, establishing himself as one of Broadway's most respected stars. Lithgow got his first real break and a Best Supporting Actor nomination when he played macho football player-turned-sensitive woman Roberta Muldoon in The World According to Garp (1982). He earned a second Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for Terms of Endearment (1983). Lithgow won two Tony Awards (1973, 2002), three Drama Desk Awards (1973, 1985, 2002) as well as the 2010 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series for his performance in the Showtime television series Dexter. NORBERT LEO BUTZ (b. 1967) became one of only 9 actors to win two Tony's as Best Leading Actor when his statue for Catch Me If You Can (2011) joined that for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. He had previously received a Best Featured Actor nomination for Thou Shalt Not (2002). He also originated the role of Fiyero in Wicked (2003). Butz is scheduled for a starring role in his tenth Broadway play, Big Fish, in the Fall of 2013. Since her Tony nomination for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, SHERIE RENE SCOTT (b. 1969) has received three more: for Best Actress in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (2011), and for both Best Actress and Best Book for Everyday Rapture (2010). She won a Drama Desk Special Award for "dedication to the preservation of musical theatre through cast recordings". Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was the fourth of five Broadway appearances to date for SARA GETTELFINGER, the others being Seussical, The Boys from Syracuse, Nine and A Free Man of Color (2010-2011). She also appeared in a special benefit revival of Cole Porter's Anything Goes (2002). Four years after he received a Drama Desk nomination as Best Featured Actor in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, GREGORY JBARA (b. 1961) would win that award, as well as a Tony, for his performance in Billy Elliott: the Musical (2009). His other Broadway roles include a replacement Billy Flynn in Chicago. Fine condition.