Three Plays: The Man Who Came to Dinner / Once in a Lifetime / You Can't Take It with You (Methuen Modern Plays) - Hardcover
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Three American theater classics by two of our most popular playwrights."Once in a Lifetime" spoofs three small-time vaudevillians who set out for Hollywood where wild luck, the incompetence of the producers, and the haywire atmosphere of the burgeoning film industry conspire to their success.The 1936 Pulitzer Prize winner "You Can’t Take It With You" is the tale of a zany family of hobby-horse enthusiasts. For thirty-five years Grandpa has done nothing but hunt snakes, throw darts, and avoid income-tax payments; his son-in-law makes fireworks in the basement, and other assorted family members write plays, operate amateur printing presses, and play the xylophone. They live in comic eccentricity until Alice brings home her straitlaced Wall Street boyfriend."The Man Who Came to Dinner," opening in 1939, portrays a famous lecturer who unwillingly accepts a dinner invitation in a small Ohio town, slips on the ice outside his hosts’ home, and is forced immediately to their sickbed. While convalescing well beyond his stay of welcome, he turns the house of his hosts into bedlam.Also included in this volume are “Men at Work” and “Forked Lightning,” two essays Kaufman and Hart wrote about each other.
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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
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
Steve Vinovich as Lawrence Vail and others
Directed by Christopher Hart. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles.
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