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- A meek English shoe salesman learns he will inherit six million dollars from an American uncle he has never met-on one condition: that he take the uncle's corpse for one last vacation to Monte Carlo. This was the daft premise behind The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo, as well as the musical Lucky Stiff that Ahrens and Flaherty crea…ebooks/Singer, Barry/Ever After_ The Last Years of Musical Theater and Beyond - Barry Singer.txt
- "I tend to be interested in musicals with a social or humanitarian conscience," Weitzman later said. "But in the case of Ahrens and Flaherty's Lucky Stiff, farcical entertainment seemed enough."ebooks/Singer, Barry/Ever After_ The Last Years of Musical Theater and Beyond - Barry Singer.txt
- The first was by Ahrens and Flaherty- Once on this Island, which formally opened at Playwrights Horizons in May of 199o.ebooks/Singer, Barry/Ever After_ The Last Years of Musical Theater and Beyond - Barry Singer.txt
- The score that Ahrens and Flaherty wound up devising was a tidy amalgamation of lilting island melodic motifs and rhythmic figures accessorized by accessibly contemporary pop inflections. The score was not really compelling so much as it was gently inviting, It also was very, very polished.ebooks/Singer, Barry/Ever After_ The Last Years of Musical Theater and Beyond - Barry Singer.txt
- Fleshed out by Daniele, Once on this Island also became the throughdance piece Ahrens and Flaherty from the first had intended it to be. With handsome costumes by Judy Dearing and primitive painted sets by Loy Arcenas, the finished product finally premiered at Playwrights in April 199o to strong reviews. And then, extraordinarily, the Shu…ebooks/Singer, Barry/Ever After_ The Last Years of Musical Theater and Beyond - Barry Singer.txt
- The show was, of course, by definition, a throwback. Its plot was shticky, its jokes broad. Ahrens and Flaherty's score was bouncy and brassy in the most traditional Broadway sense, an exercise in 1950sstyle musical comedy.ebooks/Singer, Barry/Ever After_ The Last Years of Musical Theater and Beyond - Barry Singer.txt
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