Lucky Stiff is the first Off-Broadway musical writen by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty--the team also known for Seussical and Ragtime among other favorites.This madcapped murder mystery 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! |