Ozarks Technical Community College Fine Arts Department will present the musical comedy "Lucky Stiff" April 29-May 1st in the Springfield Art Museum Auditorium. This zany comedy, with book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, music by Stephen Flaherty; is based on the novel "The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo." Phil Forrester, the music director for OTC's production, equates the structure of this "zany farce" with sitting around with friends who are telling a story and then "proceed to act it out." Director Jon Herbert characterizes it as a combination of (mostly) Weekend at Bernie's and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. It follows the travails of humdrum English shoe salesman Harry Witherspoon, who has just inherited six million dollars from his uncle Tony. The catch: Harry has to take his recently deceased (but remarkably well-preserved) uncle on one last vacation to beautiful Monte Carlo in the French Riviera. Unfortunately for Harry, pushing a wheelchair-bound corpse around a tropical
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