Directed by Mark Ward - 2 COMPACT DISCS - 100 minutes

Publisher, L.A. Theatre Works (August 2001)

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Judith Ivey and Jason Robards recreate the roles they originated on Broadway in this humorous and moving play. Jacob Brackish, the toughest, meanest teacher ever to set foot in Gloucester High School is dying . . . at home. His advertisement for a housekeeper is answered by Katherine, a woman Jacob has forgotten he flunked years before.

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