Broadway By The Bay Kicks Off 45th Season with DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS 4/1

BROADWAY BY THE BAY (BBBay), the Peninsula's premiere musical theatre company, kicks off its 45th season with DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS, the musical comedy hit running Tuesday, April 1 through Sunday, April 18 at the San Mateo Performing Arts Center (600 N. Delaware Ave., San Mateo).

Based on the popular film of the same title, DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS is the story of two fraudsters, Lawrence Jameson and Freddy Benson, living on the French Riviera. Lawrence is a cultivated and suave gentleman who cons rich ladies out of their money. Freddy on the other hand is a small time American thief who cons women into giving him money by telling made up stories about his sick grandmother. One day they meet on the train and try to setup some work together, but soon find out that the small French town they live in isn't big enough to support two scammers. So they setup a challenge - they agree that the first person to successfully steal $50,000 from a young Christine Colgate will get to stay in town, while the loser must leave. The battle between them takes you on a hilarious adventure filled with twists, turns and great big laughs! The show ran for over 625 performances on Broadway and was nominated for eleven 2005 Tony Awards. 

DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS is playing at the San Mateo Performing Arts Center (600 N. Delaware Ave., San Mateo) Thursday, April 1, 2010 through Sunday, April 18, 2010. Tickets for DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS range in price from $20 - $48 and are on sale now at the Broadway By the Bay Box Office (851 Burlway Road, Suite 300 Burlingame), by phone at 650-579-5565 and on the web at www.broadwaybythebay.org.

Under the leadership of Artistic Director Brooke Knight and Executive Director Jim Gardia, Broadway By the Baywill next present ANNIE (July 15 - August 1, 2010), followed by the funny and delightfully touching classic, LA CAGE AUX FOLLES (September 16 - October 3). The 45th season closes with BROADWAY BY THE YEAR (November 18 - 21), a musical and historical snapshot of the Great White Way highlighting songs from Broadway shows of 1930 (Girl Crazy, Strike Up the Band and The New Yorkers) and 1964 (Funny Girl, Hello Dolly and Fiddler on the Roof).

Each production plays at the 1600-seat San Mateo Performing Arts Center. Target® is proud to, once again, underwrite Broadway By the Bay's Family Matinee series which provides specially priced tickets for the Saturday matinee performance of every production for the 2010 season.

Broadway By the Bay, now celebrating its 45th Anniversary, is the largest theatre company on the Peninsula. The Company has won numerous awards, including over 40 Theatre Critics Circle Awards, and has garnered acclaim throughout the San Francisco Bay Area as a destination for professional-quality musical theatre. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Brooke Knight and Executive Director Jim Gardia, Broadway By the Bay produces three full-scale musicals and one intimate snapshot of the best of Broadway each season, presented to over 40,000 audience members at the 1,600 seat San Mateo Performing Arts Center.

Lauded for its efforts in education, The Youth Theatre Conservatory - for ages 4-18 - gives younger students solid foundations in acting, singing, and dancing for the musical theatre. For those 18 and over, the Musical Theatre Conservatory offers professional classes to adults of all ages. Students aspiring to achieve a professional level of performance skills are taught by instructors who have excelled in their specialties.