Funny Money

Jean is preparing a birthday dinner for her mild-mannered accountant husband Henry, and friends Betty and Vic are expected any minute. When he ventually arrives Jean finds Henry is not quite the man he used to be - he wants emigrate to Barcelona immediately with a briefcase stuffed with bundles of 50 pound notes amounting to 735,000 pounds. Henry, Vic, Betty and Jean are forced intp a frantic game of cat and mouse with the police and the two couples assume different identities in their battle to keep the money. Will they succeed? This Ray Cooney farce enjoyed a run at the Playhouse Theatre, London, starring Sylvia Syms, Trevor Bannister, Henry McGee and the author himself as Henry.