The Sting
Opening Night: March 29, 2018
Closing: April 29, 2018
Theater: Paper Mill Playhouse
Chicago. 1936. Get ready to enter a smoke-filled world of cons and capers, where nothing is what it seems and no one is who they appear to be. Based on the 1973 Academy Award-winning film, The Sting tells the tale of a pair of con men, small-town grifter Johnny Hooker and big-time hustler Henry Gondorff, who plot to bring down the city’s most corrupt racketeer. The Tony Award-winning creative team includes director John Rando (On the Town), choreographer 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 when the blues reigns, the stakes are high, and the dice are always loaded.
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April 9, 2018
MILLBURN, N.J. — A musical is a con game. It’s fakery and flimflam, a well-lit hustle. When it works, it’s the best kind of swindle — the kind where the marks don’t even know they’ve been played.
The trickery on display in “The Sting,” the adaptation of the 1974 best-picture winner now at Paper Mill Playhouse, isn’t yet so smooth. As directed by John Rando, it’s a jaunty entertainment — any work that leans so heavily on Scott Joplin’s “The Entertainer” had better be. But its seductions come and go, a dance here, a ragtime riff there, another twist in the corkscrew plot.
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