| Ahrens and Flaherty (ONCE ON THIS ISLAND, RAGTIME) exploded on the musical theater scene in 1988 with this zany, offbeat very funny murder mystery farce about an unassuming English shoe salesman forced to take the corpse of his recently-murdered Atlantic City croupier uncle on a week-long vacation to Monte Carlo in order to inherit six million dollars. All he has to do is get past his uncle’s insanely jealous and legally blind mistress, her much put-upon optometrist brother and a zealous representative from the Universal Dog Home of Brooklyn to prevent the money from literally going to the dogs. |
