Synopsis

This show takes place in Chicago many years ago in a world of small-time hustlers and their girls - their money nonexistent but their ingenuity incredible. Johnny Hooker joins a friend in a successful con of a "runner". Unfortunately for them, the runner works for a powerful, vindictive rackets boss, Doyle Lonnegan, who is infuriated and arranges the killing of Johnny's friend. Hoping to avenge this senseless murder, Johnny enlists the aid of the master con man Henry Gondorf. Together they decide to try the big con called "The Wire". The excitement becomes explosive and a final scene, with switch upon switch upon switch, has your audience guessing and gasping as it builds to the final con movement, "The Sting"!