MGM is using the current visit by the touring company of the Broadway musical "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood to ballyhoo its MGM on Stage division, which develops and licenses stage productions based on the company's film properties. For the 2006-07 theatrical season, MGM on Stage, headed by Darcie Denkert and Dean Stolber, is overseeing five stage adaptations of movies ranging from "Midnight Cowboy" to "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert." "With so many great MGM movies adaptable into entertaining musicals and stage plays, this is a natural area of growth for the studio," Denkert said.

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