Rachel York to Step into Dirty Rotten Scoundrels as Christine Colgate

Rachel York will fill in for Sherie Rene Scott in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels while Scott appears in Landscape of the Body off-Broadway. York is scheduled to play Scoundrels leading lady Christine Colgate from February 7 through June 18.

York last appeared on the Great White Way in Sly Fox, opening the show as working girl Miss Fancy and then switching roles to play the virginal Mrs. Truckle. York's other Broadway credits include Les Miserables, City of Angels, Victor/Victoria for which she won a Drama Desk Award and The Scarlet Pimpernel. She starred in the national tour and West End mounting of the Kiss Me, Kate revival. Her other theatrical credits include Reprise! mountings of Anything Goes and Babes in Arms and Dessa Rose off-Broadway. In 2003 she was seen playing the title character in the television movie Lucy, based on the life of legendary comedienne Lucille Ball.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, directed by Jack O'Brien, currently stars John Lithgow, Norbert Leo Butz, Scott, Joanna Gleason, Gregory Jbara and Sara Gettelfinger. As previously reported, Jonathan Pryce will be taking over for Lithgow starting on January 17.