Spam-Scam Artist Gets Scammed at Theater 4301

Dean Cameron’s “The Nigerian Spam Scam Scam”

(SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.) – Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts will present the hit comedy The Nigerian Spam Scam Scam for one night only on Feb. 7 at Theater 4301 in downtown Scottsdale.

Single tickets are available for $38 through the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts’ Web site at http://www.scottsdaleperformingarts.org/ or the box office at (480) 994-ARTS (2787).

An audience favorite at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Nigerian Spam Scam Scam originated with an e-mail that actor Dean Cameron received from a Nigerian con artist posing as the wife and son of a dead Nigerian leader. “Please help me! I am beneficiary to a fortune of 30 million dollars!!!” Instead of deleting the message, Cameron began corresponding with the scammer, writing back as a lonely Florida millionaire, whose only companions were two cats, a houseboy and personal attorney Perry Mason. Cameron then lured the unsuspecting swindler into a nine-month correspondence full of intrigue, broken hearts, confusion, frustration and colon trouble. With Victor Isaac performing the role of the bewildered and tenacious Nigerian, their dialogue, taken from Cameron’s actual e-mail exchange, documents this hilarious relationship as it descends into a miasma of misunderstanding, desperation and deception.

The Nigerian Spam Scam Scam debuted in Los Angeles at the Sacred Fools Theater as part of its popular “Crime Scene” program and has been performed in various formats at venues throughout the United States. The show played to sold-out houses and critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2004 and was featured at the Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal in 2006.

Dean Cameron is best known as Francis “Chainsaw” Gremp in the 1987 Mark Harmon comedy Summer School and has starred or appeared in more than 20 feature films and numerous television series. Based in Los Angeles, he works as a voice over talent for radio and television commercials and plays bass guitar in the power pop band The Thornbirds.

LOCATION AND PARKING
Theater 4301 is located in the Galleria Corporate Centre at 4301 Scottsdale Road on the corner of Drinkwater Boulevard and Fifth Avenue in downtown Scottsdale, one block east of Scottsdale Road. Free parking is available in the Galleria Corporate Centre parking garage.

ACCESSIBILITY
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts offers performance accommodations to enhance audience members’ experience, including: American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation or live audio description with two weeks advance notice. Assisted listening devices and wheelchair seating are always available. Visit the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts’ Web site at www.scottsdaleperformingarts.org or contact the box office at (480) 994-ARTS [TDD: (480) 874-4694] for further details. Please inquire about services when ordering tickets.

GROUP DISCOUNTS
A $3 discount per ticket is available for groups of 15 or more (subject to restriction and limitation). Call (480) 874-4690 for more information.

STUDENT DISCOUNTS
Students with valid student identification may purchase half-price tickets (subject to availability; limit one per student) 72 hours before any performance at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts box office. Tickets must be purchased in-person; phone orders are not accepted.

SCOTTSDALE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
Opened in 1975, Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts presents a dynamic, culturally diverse season of dance, jazz, classical and world music, theater and satire. Approximately 1,000 performances, educational programs, festivals and other events are showcased annually serving more than 300,000 people and contributing substantially to Scottsdale’s high quality of life and vibrant arts scene. Performances take place in the Center’s 838-seat Virginia G. Piper Theater (closed for renovation during the 2008-09 season) and 136-seat Stage 2 as well as the 2,200-seat amphitheater on the grounds of the Scottsdale Civic Center Mall and the 326-seat Theater 4301 in the Galleria Corporate Centre. The Center’s youth education and outreach programs reach more than 40,000 school children each year, and its free programs are available to the entire public. Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts also produces the popular Scottsdale Arts Festival every March; Sunday A’Fair, a series of free outdoor music festivals held on Sunday afternoons from January to April; and Native Trails, a collaboration with the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation and the Scottsdale Convention & Visitors Bureau that features free demonstrations of Native American arts and culture from January to April. Open daily and during performances, The Store @ Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts offers hand-crafted jewelry, accessories for the home, toys for imaginative young minds, recordings, books, greeting cards and more.

The Scottsdale Cultural Council, a private nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, is contracted by the City of Scottsdale, Arizona, to administer certain City arts and cultural projects and to manage the City-owned Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and Scottsdale Public Art Program. The programs of the Scottsdale Cultural Council are made possible, in part, by the support of members and donors and grants received from the Arizona Commission on the Arts through appropriations from the Arizona State Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts.

HOW TO REACH US
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts
7380 East Second Street
Scottsdale, AZ 85251
Box Office: (480) 994-ARTS (2787)
TDD: (480) 874-4694
Web: http://www.scottsdaleperformingarts.org/
E-mail: info@sccarts.org
Fax: (480) 874-4699

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