Scoundrels Press Launch in Sydney

Couldn't be there in person so I sent a video from Connecticut. Matt Hetherington pretended he was talking to me.

Amy Lepahmer, Matt Hetherington, Anne Wood and Katrina Retallick

 

Playbill.Com

Tony Award Nominee Tony Sheldon Will Star in Australian Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

By Adam Hetrick
26 Jul 2013

Tony Sheldon
Photo by Joseph Marzullo/WENN

Tony Award nominee Tony Sheldon will star in a new Australian production of the David Yazbek-Jeffrey Lane musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, which will premiere Oct. 24 at Sydney's Theatre Royal.

Sheldon, who made his Broadway debut in the Australian import Priscilla Queen of the Desert, will star as suave conman Lawrence Jameson opposite Matt Hetherington as Freddy Benson.
Roger Hodgman will direct the production that has a book by Lane and music and lyrics by Yazbek. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels will be choreographed by Dana Jolly with musical direction by Guy Simpson. Stephen Doorey and George Youakim of James Anthony Productions produce the run.
Principal casting also includes Amy Lehpamer as Christine Colgate, with John Wood as Andre Thibault, Anne Wood as Muriel Eubanks and Katrina Retallick as Jolene Oakes.

Based on the 1988 film "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," the musical focuses on two con men living in the French Riviera, who become involved in a series of schemes to swindle wealthy women out of their riches.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was nominated for 11 Tony Awards in 2005, including Best Musical. The Broadway production starred John Lithgow, Norbert Leo Butz, Sherie Rene Scott, Greg Jbara, Sara Gettelfinger and Joanna Gleason. Jack O'Brien directed the Broadway production with choreography by Jerry Mitchell.
Visit dirtyrottenscoundrels.com.au.

Boston (Part 3)

It's a very beautiful city, filled with parks and history and graceful old buildings

These swan boats are peddled by the chappie in the back

 

The real swans paddle themselves

A statue of Paul Revere who apparently never said "The British are coming!" because they were already there. He said "The regulars are coming" or "THE BIRDS is coming", something entirely different.

The weather turned on our second day, just as we were meeting our friend Rich Carson for lunch near his office downtown. We cared not a fig and ventured to the waterfront.

There are expensive apartments just like in Walsh Bay in Sydney

We took a brief (45 mins) harbour Cruise, the water lapping around our feet on the decks.

 

A famous tall thing. I wasn't listening.

The famous ship known as Old Ironsides

You can see where the idea for the Glebe Island Bridge came from

This was John Hancock's house, who first signed the Declaration of Independence.

We disembarked and strolled through the Rose Kennedy flower garden, then caught another sightseeing trolley which took us to the posh shopping area near our railway station.

And from there, Lady Boston bid us farewell. Well, actually she was just a shop mannequin but I was waxing lyrical. And I was soaking wet.

A lovely two days in a beautiful city.

Boston (Part 2)

More wanderings. Aha! A bit of deco!

A building that looks like a frog!!

 

A bit of the Berlin Wall!

A Holocaust monument. There are six glass towers in all representing six million Jews killed, their numbers engraved on these walls.

This imposing structure caught our eye, an old department store called Filenes.

 Yet as we rounded the corner we noticed something seriously amiss

Who knows what is planned for this facade?

 

 

 

We found ourselves at the Quincy Marketplace

That blue covered area to the right was a restaurant and bar serving fish and chips so we fell into plastic chairs and fell off the diet.

 TT became enraptured with a splendid juggler near our table who was keeping crowds of delighted kids spellbound.

Then my phone died so I couldn't take any more pics. But we stayed in town for the evening session of "The Conjuring" then ambled home to Encore B&B.