An American Daughter

2 Ratings: 2.5
Duration: 2H 4min
Language: English
Format
Category: Lyric Poetry & Drama

Pulitzer-Prize winner Wendy Wasserstein spins a comic and moving tale about the pitfalls that await political appointees. As a respected health crusader and devoted wife and mother, Dr. Lyssa Hughes seems perfect for the role of U.S. Surgeon General, until a chance remark at a fashionable brunch sets off a media feeding frenzy.

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

David Birney as Walter Abrahmson Anna Gunn as Quincy Quince Jamie Hanes as Billy Robbins Gregory Itzin as Timber Tucker Michael Malone as Morrow McCarthy Kevin McCarthy as Senator Alan Hughes Mary McDonnell as Lyssa Dent Hughes Claudette Nevins as Charlie 'Chubby' Hughes Denise Nicholas as Judith B. Kaufman

Directed by Beth Miles. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in October of 1998.

Release date

Audiobook: 24 January 2001

An American Daughter

2 Ratings: 2.5
Duration: 2H 4min
Language: English
Format
Category: Lyric Poetry & Drama

Pulitzer-Prize winner Wendy Wasserstein spins a comic and moving tale about the pitfalls that await political appointees. As a respected health crusader and devoted wife and mother, Dr. Lyssa Hughes seems perfect for the role of U.S. Surgeon General, until a chance remark at a fashionable brunch sets off a media feeding frenzy.

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

David Birney as Walter Abrahmson Anna Gunn as Quincy Quince Jamie Hanes as Billy Robbins Gregory Itzin as Timber Tucker Michael Malone as Morrow McCarthy Kevin McCarthy as Senator Alan Hughes Mary McDonnell as Lyssa Dent Hughes Claudette Nevins as Charlie 'Chubby' Hughes Denise Nicholas as Judith B. Kaufman

Directed by Beth Miles. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in October of 1998.

Release date

Audiobook: 24 January 2001