{"id":21025,"date":"2026-09-11T08:37:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T22:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/?p=21025"},"modified":"2026-09-11T08:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T22:37:14","slug":"observer-dirty-rotten-scroundrels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/2026\/09\/11\/observer-dirty-rotten-scroundrels\/","title":{"rendered":"OBSERVER: Dirty Rotten Scroundrels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lilydale Athenaeum Theatre presents the musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels until September 26 at the Lilydale Mechanics&#8217; Institute, 39-41 Castella St, Lilydale.<br>With music and lyrics by David Yazbek and book by Jeffrey Lane, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is directed by Alan Burrows. Originally a 1988 hit movie starring Michael Caine and Steve Martin, the musical written in 2004, was based on the movie.<br>The show tells the story of two conmen, Lawrence Jameson and Freddy Benson, who both make their living from swindling rich ladies out of their money.<br>But the small French town isn&#8217;t big enough for two lotharios. They agree on a settlement: the first one to extract $50,000 from a young female heiress, Christine Colgate, wins &#8230; and the other must leave town.<br>Performance Season: Until September 26, incl. four matinees on Sat September 19 and 26, and Sun September 13 and 20.<br>Venue: Lilydale Theatre, 39-41 Castella St., Lilydale<br><strong>Bookings: lilydaleatc.com or phone 9735 1777 or visit the Box Office Mon, Tues or Fri 10am-2pm.<br>Cheryl Threadgold<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Pictured: Tim Murphy, Phil Lambert, Gaynor Borlase, Gabi Bergman, Horatio Yen, Garry Barcham, Jess Lowman, and Lauren Seymour rehearse<br>Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.<br>Photo: Francesca Carl.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lilydale Athenaeum Theatre presents the musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels until September 26 at the Lilydale Mechanics&#8217; Institute, 39-41 Castella St, Lilydale.With music and lyrics by David Yazbek and book by Jeffrey Lane, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is directed by Alan Burrows. Originally a 1988 hit movie starring Michael Caine and Steve Martin, the musical written in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_siteseo_robots_primary_cat":"none","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-observer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21033,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21025\/revisions\/21033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}