Cakewalk

Broadway legend Elaine Stritch stars as author Lillian Hellman in Peter Feibleman’s beguiling account of Hellman’s tumultuous relationship across several decades with a man 25 years her junior, played by Oscar nominee Bruce Davison.

Accompanied by the original music of Carly Simon. Includes a conversation with Hellman scholar Deborah Martinson, author of Lillian Hellman: A Life with Foxes and Scoundrels.

Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in February 2000.

• Directed by Rosalind Ayres
• Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg
• Samantha Bennett as Esther Bruce
• Bruce Davison as Cuff
• Claudette Nevins as Women’s Voices
• Raphael Sbarge as Men’s Voices
• Elaine Stritch as Lilly

• Radio Producer: Raymond Guarna
• Foley Artist/Stage Manager: John Lovick