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 bestAn L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:Caroline Aaron as Helen Hobart and Miss ChasenEdward Asner as Herman GlogauerJen Dede as Susan WalkerJeanie Hackett as Mrs. Walker and Miss LeightonDavid Kaufman as George LewisKatharine Leonard as Florabel Leigh and Bridesmaid #2Joe Liss as Ernest and othersKellie Matteson as Phyllis Fontaine and Bridesmaid #1;Jon Matthews as Rudolph Kammerling and othersSarah Rafferty as May DanielsJonathan Silverman as Jerry HylandSteve Vinovich as Lawrence Vail and othersDirected by Christopher Hart. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles.