'Lucky Stiff'

Tony Award-winning writing team, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's (the geniuses behind Ragtime, Anastasia, Once on This Island, My Favorite Year, Rocky, A Man of No Importance, Seussical, and more!) first collaboration, Lucky Stiff, premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in 1988. Based on the novel, The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo by Michael Butterworth, Lucky Stiff is an offbeat, hilarious murder mystery farce, complete with 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 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!

At First Company, we believe that the power of theatre can bring people together and create a stronger community. We strive to bring excellent productions to the local theatre community with our various performances. First Company is an extension of the First United Methodist Church's Music and Arts Ministry.

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