Once in a Lifetime Audiobook (Free)

It’s 1929 mainly because The Jazz Singer hits the big screen and the talkies promise to change films forever. Enter three down-and-out vaudevillians who hatch a hare-brained scheme to “make it big” in Tinsel City. Their program? To open a voice academy for the witless superstars of silent movies. The only things standing within their method are ditzy starlets and power-hungry film moguls. Starring Ed Asner and directed by Moss Hart’s boy, that is top-of-the-bill screwball humor and Kaufman and Hart genius at about Once in a Lifetime its absolute best

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

Caroline Aaron while Helen Hobart and Miss Chasen

Edward Asner as Herman Glogauer

Jen Dede mainly because Susan Walker

Jeanie Hackett as Mrs. Walker and Miss Leighton

David Kaufman as George Lewis

Katharine Leonard while Florabel Leigh and Bridesmaid #2

Joe Liss while Ernest while others

Kellie Matteson as Phyllis Fontaine and Bridesmaid #1;

Jon Matthews seeing that Rudolph Kammerling while others

Sarah Rafferty mainly because May Daniels

Jonathan Silverman as Jerry Hyland

Steve Vinovich as Lawrence Vail among others

Directed by Christopher Hart. Recorded before a live audience in the Skirball Cultural Center in LA.