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Have a Nice Day

By: Billy Crystal, Quinton Peeples
Narrated by: Justin Bartha, Annette Bening, Dick Cavett, Auli'l Cravalho, Billy Crystal, Rachel Dratch, Darrell Hammond, Christopher Jackson, Kevin Kline, Robin Thede, full cast
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Have a Nice Day features a live multi-cast script reading captured over two evenings in October of 2018 at Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village.

Tony and Emmy Award-winner Billy Crystal leads an all-star cast including Oscar winner Kevin Kline (President David Murray) and four-time Oscar nominee Annette Bening (First Lady Katherine Murray) in a performance of this hilarious and poignant story about a man desperately scrambling to put his affairs in order: to save his presidency, his marriage, his relationship with his daughter - and possibly his life.

President David Murray starts the day in crisis. He’s lost control of Congress, has to decide whether to run for a second term, and his wife and teenage daughter are barely talking to him. What’s more, the Angel of Death has sent a rather inept “repo man” who is at the foot of his bed, giving him only one more day to live.

Cast members include Justin Bartha, Irene Bedard, Annette Bening, Chris Cafero, Dick Cavett, Auli'i Cravalho, Billy Crystal, Rachel Dratch, Darrell Hammond, Christopher Jackson, Robert King, Kevin Kline, and Robin Thede.

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You will not be disappointed with this production. A sure fire winner from start to finish!

Totally Amazing

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great play, goofy at times, with some cerebral and wise pearls. Great production, feels real.

pure entertainment

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This is laugh out loud material
Thanks to all concerned for some light relief amidst all the gloom

Billy delivers

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It is great to get this play, among several audio books, free to members - and at a shorter length than most books. I have tired of long books sometimes, however wonderful they are, like Middlemarch, but at 35 hours these can be a slog.
'Have a Nice Day' has a splendid cast, and is beautifully realized as a radio play - of an old-fashioned sort. I worked for several years as a radio drama producer in Australia, and plays of this style were seldom heard after about the 1970s. There is now no radio drama broadcast in Australia, sad to say, and there has been very little in the USA for many years. Only in Europe does the art form continue, particularly in Germany and the UK. So it was good to hear a radio play written and produced just in the last couple of years. The story was excellent, but I thought the ending was weak - the no-name man, the Angel of Death, gave an explanation for offering himself in place of David Murray, as the next person to die, but the explanation sounded quite unconvincing to me. In a play in realistic style, he needed to come up with something more compelling than this. So the story limped off the radio 'stage'.

Great production of play with a weak ending

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Do yourself a favour and listen to this one. Great story, well performed and a great theme!

Absolutely loved it!

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What a really lovely story this is. I really didn’t know how it would end, and I was really delighted with the way it worked out. The performances were spectacular, not surprising given the actors. 10 out of 10.

Lovely story

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I wasn't sure what to expect but I absolutely LOVED it. 💜 With this cast, I should have known it would be great.

Have a nice day indeed.

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I really enjoyed this and the messages it sent were very applicable and it was delivered in a wonderful way everyone was great

VERY INTERESTING

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A truely wonderful production. Potentially life changing. Thoroughly and delightfully enjoyable. A must listen.

Fabulously unexpected

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