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Forty-Two Stories
Written by Douglas Post
Narrated by Full Cast, Edward Asner, Rengin Altay and Jane Blass
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Forty-Two Stories is a comedy about life in a high-rise condominium. A professional student from the University of Chicago is moonlighting as janitor. A stressed-out apartment manager is at odds with the residents and on the edge of a nervous breakdown. And a motley assortment of other staff members struggles with survival in the face of urban pandemonium and with the fact that one of them may be breaking into the units and stealing women’s underwear.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Fran Adams, Ed Begley Jr., Samantha Bennett, Dan Butler, Arye Gross, Michael Luckerman, Charlie Robinson, Tom Virtue and Fred Willard.
Directed by Susan Booth. Recorded before a live audience at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, Skokie in June of 1998.
(P)1997 L.A. Theatre Works, All Rights Reserved
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