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.
Videos
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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
PHOTOS
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Tootsie
Stumptown Stages (3/21 - 4/13) NEW MUSICAL | |
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Notes from the Field
Portland Playhouse (2/19 - 3/30) | |
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Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Portland Playhouse (4/30 - 6/8) | |
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THE INVISIBLE MAN: The Radio Play
NCRD Performing Arts Center (9/26 - 10/12) | |
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Soovin Kim: Bach’s Melodic & Harmonic Brilliance
The Old Church Concert Hall (4/5 - 4/5) | |
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3x2: Three Plays. Two Authors. One Hour.
21ten Theatre (4/10 - 4/19) | |
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Life of Pi
Keller Auditorium (4/8 - 4/13) | |
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3rd Annual International BOOKLOVER'S BURLESQUE FESTIVAL
Alberta Rose Theatre (4/10 - 4/13) | |
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