Milquetoast British shoe salesman Harry Witherspoon yearns for adventure. Then he receives a telegram telling him he’s just inherited $6 million in diamonds from his eccentric American uncle. One catch: Harry has to take his uncle’s corpse on a Monte Carlo vacation to get the jewels.

“A lot of people are equating the show to ‘Weekend at Bernie's’ because there is a central concept that they're pushing around a dead body," Florida Studio Theatre's Ben Liebert acknowledged. "But the show has a lot more heart.”

“Lucky $tiff” actually predated that movie by a year. In fact, it’s loosely based on the 1890s song “The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo.” But the farce is a musical.

“It is kind of jazzy and very quirky and fun,” said Liebert. “It is not big power ballads and big epic music.

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