Cover of Once in a Lifetime

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

Caroline Aaron as Helen Hobart and Miss Chasen

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Edward Asner as Herman Glogauer

Jen Dede as Susan Walker

Jeanie Hackett as Mrs. Walker and Miss Leighton

David Kaufman as George Lewis

Katharine Leonard as Florabel Leigh and Bridesmaid #2

Joe Liss as Ernest and others

Kellie Matteson as Phyllis Fontaine and Bridesmaid #1;

Jon Matthews as Rudolph Kammerling and others

Sarah Rafferty as May Daniels

Jonathan Silverman as Jerry Hyland

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Genre
humor
Themes
theatre
Setting
1960s
Audience
adult
Form
plays

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