Once in a Lifetime

by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman (1930)

 

 

An RSC production, opened at the Aldwych August 1979 and transferred to Piccadilly Theatre

 

 

Run time: App. 2hrs 20-40min

2 intervals

 

 

 

Director: Trevor Nunn

Set Design: John Napier

Women’s Costume Design: Andreane Neofitou

Lighting: Robert Bryan

Music: Jim Parker

Choreography: Gillian Lynne

 

 

Synopsis     Notes

 

 

Run Sheet

 

Opening:

The Aldwych......... August 1979

 

Transferred to:

Piccadilly Theatre......... 1980

 

 

Cast according to the programme

 

Richard Griffiths..... George Lewis

Zoê Wanamaker..... May Daniels

Peter McEnery..... Jerry Hyland

Gaye Brown..... Helen Hobart (Hollywood gossip columnist)

Toria Fuller..... Susan Walker

Valerie Lush..... Mrs. Walker

David Suchet..... Herman Glogauer (producer, head of Glogauer Studios)

Ian Charleson..... Lawrence Vail (New York playwright)

Paul Brooke..... Rudolph Kammerling (German director)

 

Additional cast:

Brian Abbott, Allan Barker, Michael Bertenshaw, David Bradley, Helen Brammer, Bill Buffery, Jocelyn Cunningham, Susan Dury, Susannah Fellows, Kate Fitzgerald, Geoffrey Freshwater, Diana Van Fossen, Cheryl Hall, Allan Hendrick, Keith Hodiak, Darlene Johnson, Philip McGough, John Nettles, Stuart Organ, George Raistrick, Ian Reddington, Carmen Du Sautoy, Michael Siberry, Juliet Stevenson, Arthur White,

 

The Band:

 

 

 

Check the page for the Edward Hall 2005-06 production of the play...

Notes

 

The play was awarded with Plays and Players London Theatre Critics Award for best production in 1979.

 

Suchet has worked with Trevor Nunn in two other RSC productions besides Once in a Lifetime; Timon of Athens at the Young Vic, 1991 and Every Good Boy Deserves Favour at the Barbican, 1982.