Original Cast Recording - The York Theater: Lucky Stiff, CD

Original Off Broadway Cast. The early Musical of the team Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens. This recording is of the version that is currently published and rented out for productions, so it will be the recording all perspective producers of the Musical will turn to. Another earlier recording does not bear any resemblance to the published version. "Tony Award-winning writing team, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flahertys, first produced show, Lucky Stiff, premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons. That incarnations talented cast included Stephen Stout, Stuart Zagnit, Mary Testa and Julie White. A winner of the Richard Rodgers Award and Washingtons Helen Hayes Award for Best Musical, Lucky Stiff is now performed frequently across the country. 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 uncles gun-toting ex! Featuring a tuneful Flaherty and Ahrens score, an ensemble cast of zany characters and small rock combo orchestra, Lucky Stiff is an audience charmer. MTI offers plenty of theatrical resources to aid in producing the show, including a reference recording and advice from the authors on set and pacing."