It's London, 1879, and the hapless members of the Explorers Club must confront their most lethal threat yet: the admission of a woman into their hermetically-sealed ranks. But the intrepid Phyllida Spotte-Hume turns out to be the least of their troubles, in this hilarious farce starring members of the original Broadway cast.

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

Jack Cutmore-Scott as Bebee/Irish Assassin Carson Elrod as Luigi David Furr as Harry Percy John Getz as Professor Sloane Martin Jarvis as Sir Bernard Humphries David Krumholtz as Professor Walling Lorenzo Pisoni as Lucius Fretway Jennifer Westfeldt as Phylladia/Countess Matthew Wolf as Professor Cope

Original music composed and orchestrated by Laurence O'Keefe. Recordings produced by Mike Croiter and Laurence O'Keefe at Yellow Sound Lab.

Includes a conversation with essayist, novelist, and cultural critic Eileen Pollack.

Directed by Kate McAll. Recorded before a live audience at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in February of 2014.

The Explorers Club is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Major funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to enhance public understanding of science and technology in the modern world.

© 2014 L.A. Theatre Works (Lydbok): 9781580819664

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Lydbok: 15. juni 2014