LUCKY STIFF Adaptation to Have West Coast Premiere at Hollywood Film Festival

The West Coast premiere of the film adaptation LUCKY STIFF will take place at the Hollywood Film Festival on October 17 at the ArcLight Cinerama Dome. The film, based on an off-Broadway show from Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty ("Ragtime"), stars Jason Alexander ("Seinfeld"), British stage actor Dominic Marsh, Tony winner Nikki M. James ("Book of Mormon," "Les Miserables"), Pamela Shaw (recreating the character she portrayed on the stage) and the late Dennis Farina ("Get Shorty", "Saving Private Ryan").

Directed by Christopher Ashley ("Memphis" on Broadway), LUCKY STIFF tells the story of a young shoe salesman who must take his dead uncle's body for a fun-filled trip to Monte Carlo in order to claim his inheritance, while assorted characters are also after the money.

LUCKY STIFF first premiered in 1988 off-Broadway at New York's Playwright's Horizons. A recipient of the Richard Rodgers Award and Washington's Helen Hayes Award for Best Musical, the musical has been performed all over the world including London's West End. LUCKY STIFF is based on Michael Butterworth's 1983 novel "The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo."

LUCKY STIFF is set to be released in 2015.

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