'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' Opens Thursday at LHS

Article by Angelina Benitez: 

This year LHS is excited to have an entertaining, unusual, and "dirty" show
as our musical. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels will be performed on Thursday,
November 21 at 7:00pm, Friday the 22nd and Saturday the 23rd at 7:30pm and
on Sunday the 24th at 2:00pm. Tickets will be $15 for adults and $13 for
students and senior citizens. Tickets will be sold at LHS on Tuesday,
November 19th from 6 30 to 8. Tickets can also be reserved online at
lynnfieldtheater.wordpress.com or purchased at the door.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels takes place during modern times in the French
Riviera. The show starts off with a rich and luring con-artist, Lawrence
Jameson (played by Dakota Byron), who makes his income by tricking wealthy
women out of their money with his henchman or "body guard", Andre (played by
the marvelous Matthew Solomon).

Women swoon over their love for the debonair Lawrence while Andre has
also seemed to spark a romance with a woman named Muriel (played by Emily
Smith). Lawrence and Andre meet Freddie Benson (played by Gianni Pasciuto),
a crass American who proudly cons a woman on the train. Lawrence scoffs at
Freddie's mediocre skills until he needs him when one of Lawrence's cons
goes wrong. Freddie helps Lawrence escape marrying an extremely Oklahoman
lunatic, Jolene (played Bailey VanDusen), by pretending to be his very
unusual brother.

The two leading men decide to sever their business relationship because
there ain't enough room for the both of them. They agree to a deal; whoever
gets $50,000 from "The American Soap Queen", Christine (played by Lexi
Orphanos), can stay in town while the other must leave.

Freddie pretends to be paralyzed from the waist down to win Christine's
sympathy while Lawrence pretends to be Dr. Emil Shuffhausen, the only man
who could possibly restore Freddie's ability to walk. Does she see through their schemes? Does a romance bloom? What happens to her poor puppy?

 All these questions will be answered if you come see one of our performances
from Thursday, November 21, to Sunday, November 24.

Shown in the picture (photograph by John Sievers) From left to right:
Marjorie Dwyer
Jack Connely
Danielle Colucci
(Matthew Solomon in background)
Kiara Byron
Elizabeth Geary (foreground)
Maddie Yazel
Andrew Bunar
Angelina Benitez
Baylee Priestley
David Sarnevitz
Mia Sievers