Once in a Lifetime

It’s 1929 as The Jazz Singer hits the silver screen and the talkies promise to change movies forever. Enter three down-and-out vaudevillians who hatch a hare-brained scheme to “make it big” in Tinsel Town. Their plan? To open a voice academy for the witless stars of silent movies. The only things standing in their way are ditzy starlets and power-hungry movie moguls. Starring Edward Asner and directed by Moss Hart’s son, this is top-of-the-bill screwball comedy and Kaufman and Hart genius at its very best. Adapted by Christopher Hart.

An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:

Caroline Aaron as Helen Hobart/Miss Chasen

Edward Asner as Herman Glogauer

Jen Dede as Susan Walker

Jeanie Hackett as Mrs. Walker/Miss Leighton

David Kaufman as George Lewis

Katharine Leonard as Florabel Leigh/Bridesmaid #2

Joe Liss as Ernest/Others

Kellie Matteson as Phyllis Fontaine/Bridesmaid #1

Jon Matthews as Rudolph Kammerling/Others

Sarah Rafferty as May Daniels

Jonathan Silverman as Jerry Hyland

Steve Vinovich as Lawrence Vail/Others

Directed by Christopher Hart. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in October of 2009.