I had lunch with Evans Haile, artistic director of Cape Cod’s Cape Playhouse, recently, and when discussing their upcoming 2008 season, I secured his permission to publish some very exciting casting news.

This summer, the Playhouse will produce the regional premiere of David Yazbek’s (Composer/Lyricist) and Jeffrey Lane’s (Book) musical, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, with a crazy-talented cast.

Brent Barrett (Phantom of the Opera-Las Vegas, Annie Get Your Gun,Closer Than Ever, Kiss Me Kate) will play Lawrence Jameson, the role originated by John Lithgow on Broadway.

Hunter Foster (Little Shop, Urintetown,The Producers, Frankenstein) will play Freddy Benson, the role originated by Norbert Leo Butz and

Dee Hoty (Will Rogers Follies, City of Angels) will play Muriel Eubanks.

And should pending negotiations pan out, one of these gentlemen will be reunited with a former leading lady to round out the cast of the show.

I saw a top-notch production of Pete ‘n’ Keely at the Cape Playhouse a couple of summers ago with its original cast, George Dvorsky and Sally Mayes (written by a longtime crush of mine, James Hindman—ever since he was Marvin in a tour of Falsettos I played for. But I digress…)

The Cape Playhouse is proud to be America’s Oldest Professional Summer Theatre (Bette Davis was an usher there…) For more information, go to http://www.capeplayhouse.com/index.html

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