The cast included John Lithgow, Norbert Leo Butz, and Sherie Rene Scott, with Joanna Gleason, Gregory Jbara, and Sara Gettelfinger.

[2] A North American national Equity tour launched on August 4, 2006 with Norbert Leo Butz reprising his role as Freddy, alongside Tom Hewitt as Lawrence.

A 25-city non-Equity tour, with Jamie Jackson as Lawrence and Doug Thompson as Freddy, began on September 25, 2007 in Dayton, Ohio, with its final performance on March 23, 2008, in Memphis, Tennessee.

[citation needed] The original UK production had pre-West End tryouts at the Manchester Opera House and the Aylesbury Waterside Theatre beginning in November 2013[4] before beginning previews at the Savoy Theatre, London, on March 10, 2014, with the official opening night on April 2, 2014.

[7] The original cast included Robert Lindsay as Lawrence, Rufus Hound as Freddy, Katherine Kingsley as Christine[8] and Samantha Bond as Muriel.

[10] The UK tour starred Michael Praed as Lawrence, Noel Sullivan as Freddy, Carley Stenson as Christine, and Geraldine Fitzgerald as Muriel.

The cast also featured Emma Caffrey, Andy Conaghan, Phoebe Coupe, Soophia Faroughi, Jonny Godbold, Orla Gormley, Patrick Harper, Justin Lee-Jones, Jordan Livesey, Lisa Mathieson, Andy Rees, Freya Rowley, Regan Shepherd, Kevin Stephen-Jones, Katie Warsop and Jenny Wickham.

It’s set to star Ramin Karimloo as Freddy Benson, Hadley Fraser as Laurence Jamieson, Carly Mercedes Dyer as Christine Colgate, Janie Dee as Muriel Eubanks, Cameron Blakely as Inspector Andre, and Alex Young as Jolene Oaks with direction by Rupert Hands and musical direction by Adam Hoskins.

[12] Inside a lively casino near the French Riviera ("Overture"), con-artist Lawrence Jameson is tricking wealthy women out of their money with the help of his "bodyguard" Andre ("Give Them What They Want").

Lawrence has the same two sailors kidnap Freddy while he takes Christine to the train station so she can leave ("Love Sneaks In").

The next day Freddy meets Christine back at the hotel who says she couldn't leave “without seeing you again.” ("Son of Great Big Stuff") The two get in bed together before the scene is switched to Lawrence's mansion where Christine arrives, telling him tearfully how she came back to see Freddy, how they made love, and then when she woke up all her money was gone: “I’m beginning to think he was never really paralyzed.” Out of remorse, Lawrence packs 50 thousand dollars in a suitcase and tells her to take it.

Lawrence then opens up the suitcase to find the money gone, replaced by Freddy's clothes and a note that reads, “Goodbye boys.

He praised Butz but felt that the musical's "ingredients appear to have been assembled according to an oft-checked shopping list for a borrowed recipe.

"[19] John Simon at the New York Magazine review mostly liked the book and lyrics, as well as the direction and cast, but found the music merely serviceable.

[23] The Independent also judged it worth three stars but liked the score, which it found witty, more than the book, which it thought was lacking in depth, comparing it unfavorably with The Producers.

[25] The London Evening Standard also awarded four stars, also highlighting Kingsley's contribution and concluding: "There’s plenty of razzle-dazzle yet also a wry knowingness.

"[26] The Financial Times was more critical, giving the show only two stars and lamenting that the songs failed to carry the story and characters forward.

Basic theatrical continuity goes out the window, as characters sing in verbal idioms and even in accents entirely alien to their spoken lines".