The Honeymooners features
Book by Dusty Kay and Bill Nuss;
Music by Stephen Weiner; Lyr-
ics by Peter Mills; and is Choreo-
graphed by Joshua Bergasse.
Based on legendary Oscar-win-
ning film starring Robert Redford
and Paul Newman, The Sting ar-
rives at Paper Mill on March 29.
Taking place in Chicago circa
1936, The Sting brings the audi-
ence into a smoke-filled world of
cons and capers, where nothing is
what it seems and no one is who
they appear to be.
The musical tells the tale of a
pair of con men, small town grifter
Johnny Hooker and big time hus-
tler Henry Gondorff, who plot to
bring down the city’s most corrupt
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racketeer. The Tony Award-winning
creative team includes director
John Rando (On The Town), cho-
reographer Warren Carlyle (Hello
Dolly!), bookwriter Bob Martin
(The Drowsy Chaperone), and an
original score by composer/lyricist
team Mark Hollmann and Greg
Kotis (Urinetown). The Sting takes
you back to an era where the blues
reigns, the stakes are high, and the
dice are always loaded.
“We are very excited to bring The
Sting to Paper Mill; an American
classic reinvented for the stage,”
said the show’s Tony award-win-
ning book writer Bob Martin. “It re-
tains all of the wit and depression
era charm of the original, the com-
plex characters, the sophisticated
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