Jonathan Pryce to Replace Lithgow in Scoundrels Starting 1/17/06

Jonathan Pryce will be joining the cast of Broadway's Dirty Rotten Scoundrels as the suave Lawrence Jameson, replacing John Lithgow. He begins performances on Tuesday, January 17, 2006.

In a statement, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels producer Marty Bell noted, “Jonathan Pryce is one of the most talented and versatile leading men on stage and screen. We are thrilled to be welcoming him back to Broadway after almost 15 years. This con is a pro!”

Pryce is a two-time Tony Award winner, winning once for his performance as The Engineer in Miss Saigon and once for Comedians. He also appeared on the Great White Way in Accidental Death of an Anarchist. Last year he starred at the Almeida Theare and in the West End in Edward Albee's The Goat or Who is Sylvia?. Pryce boasts a long list of film credits as well, including Carrington, for which he won a Cannes Film Festival Best Actor Award, Evita in which he portrayed Juan Peron, Glengarry Glen Ross, Brazil, Barbarians at the Gate, Tomorrow Never Dies, Stigmata, The Affair of the Necklace, What a Girl Wants, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, De-Lovely and The Brothers Grimm.

Lithgow, who, like Pryce, is a two-time Tony winner, was nominated for another Tony Award for his performance in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. He will depart on on Sunday, January 15.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, directed by Jack O'Brien, will continue to star 2005 Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz as Freddy Benson and Sherie Rene Scott as Christine Colgate.