Tony Nominated Actress Jonelle Allen ("Two Gentlemen of Verona"), Jason Graae ( and Marissa Perry ("Hairspray") star in a staged reading of Ahrens and Flaherty's musical comedy "Lucky Stiff" at The Laguna Playhouse for one night only, Monday, June 7 at 7:00 pm to benefit Musical Theatre University.
Musical Theatre University, founded and directed by David Green, is a comprehensive training ground for musical theatre performers from across the nation with aspirations for careers on Broadway. Mr. Green's alumni include Tony nominees Susan Egan ("Beauty and The Beast) and Matthew Morrison ("Light In The Piazza" and "Glee"), Stephanie J. Block ("9 to 5" and "Pirate Queen"), Krysta Rodriguez ("The Addams Family"), Lindsay Mendez ("Marvelous Wonderettes" and "Everyday Rapture"), Anneleise VanDerPol ("Beauty and the Beast" and "Vanities") and more."Lucky Stiff" has been called "a delicious, zany throwback--pure frosting, but whipped to perfect consistency" by the New York Post. The show, based on the novel "The Man Who Broke The Bank At Monte Carlo" by Michael Butterworth, is a classic musical 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.
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