![[Dee McCorkle, Frank Wilson, Michael Moran, Vera Barton-Caro, Butch Maxwell] - 1996](speakez.jpg)
Above, left: Original cast 1998; right: original cast 2016 revival. In each, from left: Dee McCorkle, Frank Wilson, Michael Moran
Vera Barton-Caro, Butch Maxwell
Mobster Vinnie Vermicelli's Speakeasy is visited by his childhood friend - once a cop and now a private detective. Now Vinnie has a problem - his moll's affection for a bad comic and a strage Russian psychic - not to mention a murder in his establishment - one that he wasn't behind.
Cast
Vinnie Vermicelli ~ Frank
Wilson
Shirley Laverne ~ Vera
Barton-Caro
Wayne Starch ~ Butch
Maxwell
Natasha Levushkin ~ Dee
McCorkle
Ray Ricotta (1998 cast) ~ Michael
Moran
Special Appearances 2016 Performance:
Richetti: ~Gino Angelo
Bugsy: ~
Bert
Furioli
Mugsy: ~
Josh
DeBeni
Thugsy: ~
Dustin
Heavilin
Ratso: ~
Ryan
Sears
Opel: ~
Cheryl
Violetti
Penelope: ~
Melody
Meadows
Elise ~
Valery
Staskey
Details about "Spekeasy, Die Hard"
Originally staged July August 1996 - Reprises in 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2016
![[TGIF]](tgif.jpg)
Above: The cover of the TGIFsection
of the Wheling Intelligencer/News-Registeron Friday, Spetember 25, 1998.
Pictured are (clockwise from left) Butch Maxwell, Frank Wilson, Vera Barton-Caro
and Dee McCorkle.
Below is a brief scene from "Speakeasy, Die Hard," the 20th anniversary performance of the first Mystery Theatre Unlimited show, held Saturday, September 17, 2016 at Oglebay Institute's Stifel Fine Arts Center. (The full cast is pictured above.) This was the final performance of the late Gino Angelo (as the gangster Richetti). Also featured are Frank Wilson (as rival ganglord Vinnie Veramcelli) and as Richetti's henchmen are Bert Furioli, Josh DeBeni, Dustin Heavilin and Ryan Sears. We will always love Gino just as much as our audiences did.
Last updated: January 15, 2017