Lucky Stiff
book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
music by Stephen Flaherty
based on the novel by Michael Butterworth
May 3, 9, 10, 2025 at 8 p.m.
May 4, 11, 2025 at 2 p.m.
Tony Award-winning writing team Ahrens and Flaherty's first produced show, Lucky Stiff is an offbeat, hilarious murder mystery farce, complete with mistaken identities, six million bucks in diamonds, and a corpse in a wheelchair. Based on the novel "The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo," the story revolves around an unassuming English shoe salesman who is forced to take the embalmed body of his recently murdered uncle on a vacation to Monte Carlo. Should he succeed in passing his 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 his uncle's gun-toting ex!
Cast
Harry Witherspoon - Michael Knight
Annabel Glick - Amanda Wade
Rita La Porta - Kerry Abramov
Vincent Di Ruzzio - Maxwell Housman
Luigi Gaudi - Jim Braunstein
The Dead Body - Tim Daughters
Woman 1 - Beth Martin Pierce
Woman 2, Dominique Du Monaco - Emily Lambert
Man 1 - Meghan Trask
Man 2 - Joel Hersh
Female Ensemble - Chelsea Reyes
Male Ensemble - Bob Amici
Creative Team
Directed by Fran Betlyon
Music directed by Div Slomin
Choreographed by Fran Betlyon and Lauren Hall
Produced by Kathleen O'Connor
Stage managed by Sarah Wolman
Set Design - TBD
Lighting Design - Jake Snyder
Sound Design - Todd Short
Costume Design - Elizabeth Hoermann
Props Design - Wendy Eldredge