Cast List
THE MERCY MAN
The ‘Mercy Man’ is a character based on a British-born assassin employed by the Mafia when outside expertise was required to carry out a ‘hit’. He introduces us to a non-stop rollercoaster ride from the birth of the American Mafia a century ago, thru’ Prohibition and the Mafia Wars of the ‘Roaring Twenties’ – featuring the Jews who built Las Vegas and the true story of Frank Sinatra, the Kennedys and Marilyn Monroe. Meet legendary gangsters – A1 Capone, ‘Lucky’ Luciano, Meyer Lansky, ‘Bugsy’ Siegel, ‘Dutch’ Schultz and not forgetting Murder Inc – that ‘Elite Squad of Assassins’ employed by the Mafia in the 1930s.
Meanwhile Police are digging up bodies all over America.. many unsolved murder cases are now closed…
1925 Charles ‘Vannie’ Higgins
1925 Richard ‘Pegleg’ Lonergan
1925 ‘Wild’ Bill Lovett
1928 Arnold Rothstein
1931 Salvatore Maranzano
1933 Max Greenberg
1941 Abe Reles
1947 Benjamin Siegel
1951 Tony Trambino & Tony Brancato
1962 Marilyn Monroe
1963 JFK
1968 ROBERT KENNEDY
1975 Sam ‘Momo’ Giancana
1980 Angelo Bruno
1985 Paul Castellano
THE WOMEN – NICOLE FARADAY
Nicole Faraday most recently completed a successful run in ‘Bad Girls – The Musical’ at The Garrick Theatre; she created the role of Shell Dockley for which she has been nominated in this year’s Theatre goers’ Choice Awards as Best Supporting Actress in a Musical ; she won last year’s TMA award for Best Supporting Actress in the same role for the critically acclaimed run at The West Yorkshire Playhouse, and can be heard on the original cast recording and DVD of the show to be released shortly.
Nicole trained at The Guildford School of Acting; other theatre work includes Agnetha in the Bill Kenwright national no.l tour ‘Thank You For The Music’ (when she first worked with Keith Strachan) subsequently joining ‘Abba Gold’ and touring in Kenya alongside major UK concert and theatre venues; Virginia Jones in ‘Grab Me A Gondola’ in the British Theatre Museum musical revival season; original cast and recording of ‘Hogarth’ at The Bridewell Theatre; ‘Not Quite ‘It” at The Soho Theatre, ‘Bright’ at The Royal Court, ‘Newsrevue’, ‘Measure For Measure’, ‘The Importance Of Being Earnest’, headlining in ‘Sleeping Beauty’ at The Theatre Royal, Norwich, Marilyn Monroe in ‘Marilyn The Musical’ at The Greenwich Theatre, ‘West End Girls’ at the Jersey Opera House, and special guest soloist with Frank Renton’s acclaimed concert brass in ‘Carol Concert With The Stars’ at The Royal Albert Hall, Christmas 2005. In spring 2006 Nicole portrayed the leading role of Eva Cassidy in the number one touring musical production ‘Over The Rainbow’.
Nicole is best known for her portrayal of Snowball Merriman, the glamorous murderess in two series of ITV’s smash hit series ‘Bad Girls’. She is also familiar as former series regular Dr. Heather Lincoln in BBC’s ‘Casualty’. Other television credits include ‘Cathedral’, ‘Time Gentlemen, Please’, ‘Orrible, Agony’, ‘Surrealism’ and the role of Jerry Hall in ‘The Mick Jagger Story’.
Film work includes ‘Untold Stories’, ‘Trizoners’, ‘The Empty Mirror’, ‘Grandma’s Funeral’ and ‘The End Of Fast Rewind’. She has appeared as a guest on several primetime TV shows including SMTV, GMTV, 5LlVE! with Richard Bacon, ‘This Morning’, ‘Loose Lips’, ‘Nightfever’, ‘The Terry And Gabby Show’, ‘Bad Girls Most Wanted’ and as a discussion panelist on ITV’s ‘Loose Women’.
Featuring
FOR THE ITALIAN MOB
JOSEPH BARBARA
THOMAS BILOTTI
JOSEPH BONANNO
TONY BRANCATO
ANGELO BRUNO
JULIUS CAESAR
> AL ‘SCARFACE’ CAPONE
LOUIS ‘NO RELATION’ CAPONE
PAUL ‘BIG PAULI? CASTELLANO
BIG JIM COLOSIMO
> FRANK ‘PRIME MINISTER COSTELLO
ANGELO ‘GYP’ DE CARLO
JIMMY ‘THE WEASEL’ FRATIANNO
TOMMY ‘GAGS’ GAGLIANO
CARLO GAMBINO
> VITO GENOVESE
SAM ‘MOMO’ GIANCANA
> JOHN ‘TEFLON DON’ GOTTI
JOHN GOTTI JR
SAMMY ‘THE BULL’ GRAVANO
VITO ‘CHICKEN HEAD’ GURINO
> CHARLES ‘LUCKY’ LUCIANO
ANTHONY ‘DUKEY’ MAFFATORE
HARRY ‘HAPPY’ MAIONE
VINCENT MANGANO
SALVATORE ‘THE DON’ MARANZANO
GUISEPPE ‘JOE THE BOSS’ MASSERIA
MACHINE GUN JACK MCGURN
WILLIE MORETTI
JOSEPH PROFACI
IGNAZIO ‘LUPO THE WOLF’ SAIETTA
JOHN SCALISE
VINNIE ‘THE SHARKI TERIACA
JOHNNY TORRIO
TONY TRAMBINO
JOSEPH VALACHI
ALBERT ‘MAD HATTER’ ANASTASIA
Also known as the Lord High Executioner. As Executive-in-Charge of Murder Incorporated he is also known by the rank ‘Lord High Executioner’. He is renowned for unparalleled brutality. He finally realises his ambition to become a crime boss during the 1950s at the expense of ‘others’. No doubt he would have approved of the efficiency in the planning of his own assassination in 1957.
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FOR THE IRISH MOB
VINCENT ‘MAD DOG’ COLL
> ‘LEGS DIAMOND’
CHARLES ‘VANNIE’ HIGGINS
‘MACHINE GUN JACK MCGURNI’ (GIBALDI)
RICHARD ‘PEGLEGI’ LONERGAN
‘WILD BILL’ LOVETT
DION ‘DEANE’ O’BANION
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FOR THE JEWISH MOB
ISRAEL ‘ICE PICK WILLIE’ ALDERMAN
ALEXANDER ‘RED’ ALPERT
ABE AXLER
SHOLEM ‘THE WHEELMAN’ BERNSTEIN
ISADORE ‘KID CANN’ BLUMENFELD
> LOUIS ‘LEPKE’ BUCHALTER
MOE DALITZ
EDDIE FLETCHER
MEYER ‘BUGGSY’ GOLDSTEIN
WAXEY GORDON
GUS GREENBAUM
MAX ‘BIG MAXEY’ GREENBERG
DUDDI ‘RAZORS’ GUBAVITZ
MORRIS KLEINMAN
> MEYER LANSKY
AVRAHOM ‘PRETTY’ LEVINE
SHMUEL ‘RED’ LEVINE
SEYMOUR ‘BLUE JAW’ MAGOON
IRVING ‘KNAIDELACH’ NITZBERG
OSCAR THE POET
ABRAHAM ‘KID TWIST’ RELES
MORRIS ROSEN
LOU ROTHKOPF
> ARNOLD ‘THE BRAIN ROTHSTEIN
JACK RUBY
HARRY ‘THE MOCK’ RUDOLPH
> DUTCH SCHULTZ
MOE SEDWAY
> BENJAMIN ‘BUGSY’ SIEGEL
ALLEN SMILEY
HERSCHEL ‘PITTSBURGH PHIL’ STRAUSS
MYER ‘SHYLOCK’ SYCOFF
ALBERT ‘TICK TOCK’ TANNENBAUM
SAM TUCKER
AVRAHAM ‘BO’ WEINBERG
GEORGE ‘THE ACCOUNTANT’ WEINBERG
EMANUEL ‘MENDY’ WEISS
SOLLY ‘CUTYERHEADOFF’ WEISSMAN
CHARLIE ‘THE BUG’ WORKMAN
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FOR THE AMERICAN MOB
MA BARKER FAMILY
BONNIE AND CLYDE
JOHN DILLINGER
PRETTY BOY FLOYD
JIMMY HOFFA
JOSEPH ISON
LEE HARVEY OSWALD
ENOCH ‘NUCKY’ JOHNSON
MACHINE GUN KELLY
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