Dearborn actor and Bryant Middle School assistant principal Dan Hartley will open March 9 as Harry Witherspoon in “Lucky Stiff” at the Village Players of Birmingham. The 1988 musical murder mystery farce is the first off-Broadway musical created by the award-winning team of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, who also collaborated on the Broadway musicals “Ragtime” and “Seussical.”
In “Lucky Stiff” Hart plays Harry Witherspoon, a mild-mannered shoe salesman who will inherit $6 million if he can pass his recently murdered and embalmed Atlantic City uncle off as alive during a visit to Monte Carlo.
If he can’t pull off the ruse, the millions might go to either the Universal Dog Home of Brooklyn or one of the shysters following him.
The show, directed by Michael Gravame, will open Friday March 9 and runs for two more weekends, March 16 to 18 and March 23 to 25, with 8 p.m. shows Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday matinees at the Village Players of Birmingham, 34660 Woodward Avenue.
Call (248) 644-2075 to order tickets by phone.
Cast members include Jackie Gubow as Annabel Glick, Tania Velinsky as Rita La Porta, Tony Battle as Vinnie DiRuzzio, Gary Mach as Luigi Gaudi and Cliff Levin as the Dead Body.
Ensemble members include Janie Minchella, Liz Schultz, Tom Arwady and Earl Bain.
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