It’s 1929 as The Jazz Vocalist hits the silver screen and the talkies promise to change films forever. Enter three down-and-out vaudevillians who hatch a hare-brained structure to “make it big” in Tinsel Town. Their program? To open up a tone of voice academy for the witless superstars of silent movies. The only items standing in their method are ditzy starlets and power-hungry movie moguls. Starring Ed Asner and aimed by Moss Hart’s kid, that is top-of-the-bill screwball comedy and Kaufman and Hart genius at about Once in an eternity its very best

An L.A. Theater Works full-cast overall performance featuring:

Caroline Aaron as Helen Hobart and Miss Chasen

Edward Asner mainly because Herman Glogauer

Jen Dede simply because Susan Walker

Jeanie Hackett mainly because Mrs. Walker and Miss Leighton

David Kaufman as George Lewis

Katharine Leonard as Florabel Leigh and Bridesmaid #2

Joe Liss as Ernest yet others

Kellie Matteson while Phyllis Fontaine and Bridesmaid #1;

Jon Matthews as Rudolph Kammerling among others

Sarah Rafferty simply because May Daniels

Jonathan Silverman as Jerry Hyland

Steve Vinovich as Lawrence Vail while others

Directed by Christopher Hart. Recorded before a live audience in the Skirball Cultural Middle in Los Angeles.