Tony Award winners Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty exploded on the musical theatre scene in 1988 with their first off-Broadway show, LUCKY STIFF. Based on the novel The Man Who Broke The Bank At Monte Carlo by Michael Butterworth, LUCKY STIFF is a zany, offbeat, and very funny murder mystery farce complete with slamming doors, mistaken identities, six million bucks in diamonds, and a corpse in a wheelchair.
The story revolves around an unassuming English shoe salesman who is forced to take the embalmed body of his recently-murdered Atlantic City uncle on a vacation to Monte Carlo. Should he succeed in passing Uncle off as alive, Harry Witherspoon stands to inherit $6,000,000. If not, the money goes to the Universal Dog Home of Brooklyn, or else to the gun-toting wife of the casino owner! First produced at Playwrights Horizons off-Broadway (Richard Rodgers Award) the show later went on to win Washington's Helen Hayes Award for Best Musical, and is now performed frequently across the country.
For complete information on this and other Ahrens and Flaherty shows, as well as links to purchase CDs, vocal selections and other publications, please go to www.AhrensandFlaherty.com.
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Tootsie
Stumptown Stages (3/21 - 4/13) NEW MUSICAL | |
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A Gentleman's Guide To Love And Murder
Penguin Productions (3/28 - 4/6) COMEDY | |
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Noises Off
Lakewood Theatre Company (2/28 - 4/6) COMEDY
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Vancouver Symphony Orchestra USA Presents Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Scheherazade”
Skyview Concert Hall (4/12 - 4/13) | |
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SORDID LIVES
NCRD Performing Arts Center (5/30 - 6/15) | |
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Grupo Arga Detectives Privados
Grupo Arga Detectives Privados (5/18 - 10/18) | |
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Christmas In Christmasville: A Christmas Play about Christmas Movies
Twilight Theater Company (12/4 - 12/21) | |
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Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Portland Playhouse (4/30 - 6/8) | |
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Notes from the Field
Portland Playhouse (2/19 - 3/30) | |
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THE HOLIDAY CHANNEL CHRISTMAS MOVIE WONDERTHON
NCRD Performing Arts Center (12/5 - 12/21) | |
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