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Have a Nice Day
- 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
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
- Performance
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Drama & Plays
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Publisher's Summary
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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Annette Bening is a Tony and Academy Award-nominated actress whose theater credits include: King Lear, Shakespeare in the Park; Ruth Draper Monologues, Geffen Playhouse; The Cherry Orchard, Mark Taper Forum; Talking Heads; Hedda Gabler, Geffen Playhouse; Medea, UCLA; and Coastal Disturbances which earned her a Tony Award nomination. Film credits include: Life Itself; 20th Century Women (Golden Globe nomination); The Kids Are Alright (Golden Globe winner, Academy Award nomination); Being Julia (Golden Globe Winner, Academy Award nomination); American Beauty (Academy Award nomination, Golden Globe nomination); The American President (Golden Globe nomination); The Grifters (Academy Award nomination); and more.
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Tony and Emmy Award-winning comedian, actor, producer, writer, and director Billy Crystal is known to audiences around the world as the star of such feature films as When Harry Met Sally…, City Slickers, and Analyze This; as a cast member of NBC’s Saturday Night Live; and as the acclaimed nine-time host of the Academy Awards®. Crystal has also hosted the Grammy® Awards three times and earned five Emmy Awards for his work as host, writer, and producer on both award shows. Billy won his sixth Emmy for the HBO comedy special Midnight Train to Moscow. Crystal was the 2007 recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor and is a New York Times best-selling author of five books, two of which were for children. In 2004, Crystal made his Broadway debut with the original production of his one-man show 700 Sundays, for which he won a Tony Award. The Broadway production was taped in front of a live audience for an HBO special that aired in April of 2014, and garnered four Emmy nominations.
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Justin Bartha is a versatile stage and screen actor best known by many for starring in two beloved billion-dollar franchises: Todd Phillips’ The Hangover trilogy, as well as the National Treasure movies. Upcoming, Bartha can be seen in Nick Hamm’s Driven opposite Jason Sudeikis and Corey Stoll, Collin Friesen’s Sorry for Your Loss, and Mark Polish’s Headlock. Bartha’s additional film credits include: Elizabeth Wood’s White Girl, Holy Rollers opposite Jesse Eisenberg, Todd Solondz’s Dark Horse, The Rebound, and Failure to Launch. On television, Bartha was most recently seen co-starring in the critically acclaimed drama The Good Fight for CBS All Access. He also starred in Ryan Murphy’s The New Normal for NBC. Stage credits include the Tony-nominated revival of Lend Me a Tenor opposite Tony Shalhoub, Jesse Eisenberg’s Asunción, Robert Askins’ Permission, and Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys.
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Irene Bedard is a Native American actor, director, producer, and advocate. This year she had the honor of becoming a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She can be most recently seen in this season of Westworld. Irene has been a Golden Globe nominee for the TNT production of Lakota Woman: Seige at Wounded Knee. She had a major recurring role in Steven Kings’ The Mist for the Paramount Network. She also had a recurring role on Longmire and was prominently featured in the Steven Spielberg miniseries Into the West. Irene was also the speaking voice of Pocahontas in the Disney animated movie.
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Chris is thrilled to be sharing the stage with this amazing cast. Chris is an actor, writer, and comedian in New York City. He was born and raised in Norwalk, Connecticut and is a graduate of The George Washington University. Select credits include: Bull (CBS), The Other Two (Comedy Central), Billions (Showtime), The Night Of (HBO), Law & Order: SVU (NBC) and The Awesome 80's Prom (Off-Broadway). Chris is a founding member, writer, and performer with award-winning sketch troupe Uncle Function, and a house sketch performer at Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. He also performs stand-up throughout the city. Love to the Core4.
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- 11-02-18
Midlife crisis in the white house
This is a fun comedy about POTUS having a midlife crisis. His teenage daughter is pulling away, and embarrassed by him. His wife is missing their old life (which causes a silly, funny scene where they try relive a game they played back when they were young, poor newlyweds). He also needs to decide if he wants to run for a second term - after having a rather unsuccessful first term. All this while dealing whit the media and paparazzi.
While it is about the POTUS, it is not caught up much in modern politics. Which party this guy is from was not clear to me. There was no obvious jabs at the current president (I which I guess is good or bad, depending on your view of him). It's a comedy about people, with a political background, not a political comedy.
It is a live recording of a performance, in front of an audience. The quality of the recording reflects that. It is fairly good, but not perfect. As with a live audience you do get a lot of laughter in the recording. The All-Star class is great. Really enjoyable.
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- cecilia bronaugh
- 11-06-18
This is a winner!
Loved this Audible Original! Was funny, serious, and sentimental. The cast was great and I could easily distinguish the different characters’ voices. The message of the play at the end brought tears to my eyes and made me smile at the same time. Definitely recommend.
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- Lauren
- 11-05-18
Amazing!! Best reading ever!!!
Loved this!! Highly recommend to anyone who wants an up lifting short story. Just wonderful!!
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- kristy green
- 11-02-18
Absolutely Mawvelous!
!!!!! Completely awesome work. The whole cast was awesome. Definitely a must listen for anyone.
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- ATTILA
- 11-05-18
Best audiostory I ever heard
I started listening to this story before going to bed as I always do. I usually listen for 15 minutes before falling asleep. This time I could not stop listening and finished the whole recording. It is 2:55 am now. Even though I have a busy workday tomorrow, I felt that I had to write this review and thank Audible for this gift.
This is an amazing story and performances of the cast were extraordinary. I am recommending this audiostory to my family and my friends.
Again, thank you Audible. 👍
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- Kelly Flynn
- 11-05-18
awesome
great listen!!! great story! really enjoyed it!! recommend to everyone. cute story, really captures you.
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- Susan
- 11-05-18
Breathtaking!
I loved this so much! I was in the edge of my seat with chills!
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- Thinker
- 11-05-18
Inspiring. Highly recommended for all audiances.
Wonderful performance and inspiring message for all audiances and ages. A true masterpiece. Thank you and please produce and include more like it.
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- Tracey Ellen Frances
- 11-05-18
SO well done!
Wonderful story, beautifully told. It was easy to picture the players, the sets, and the experiences the characters were having. The solid, funny, clever story told marvelously by fabulous reader/actors. I highly recommend it!
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- bradley hull
- 11-05-18
Extremely enjoyable and family friendly too.
The cast was amazing and the story was heartfelt. Good times. I'd suggest this to anyone with 2 hours to spare.
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- Kindle Customer
- 11-27-20
Really enjoyed this!
I have come back to this story time and time again since first hearing it over the summer...it feels like every time I listen I find there’s something different about the performances or background moments that strikes me-so many funny silly moments mixed with some others filled with pathos and love and laughter-all the bits that make up life! For a TLDR review...a great script, with great performances makes for a great recording!
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- Cookie
- 09-01-20
Very funny!
Enjoy this...lots of laugh-out-loud moments, really good acting and seamless storyline. I think worth every penny!
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- Anon.
- 05-15-22
What a wonderful discovery
I loved everything about this, the atmosphere of an event (by great actors no doubt for great actors and film and theatre people and their families) and the sense of really being at an event. I thought the writing was excellent (Billy Crystal is wasted as an actor….just joking but just imagine that he could have been writing more of these good hearted moral charming funny thought-provoking scripts over the years). We listened driving home from Wells and then we didn’t get out of the car until it ended. Excellent. Thanks Audible.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-05-22
Brilliant
Loved this play, excellent acting and storyline. I would highly recommend having a listen!
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- Client d'Amazon
- 04-28-22
Performances are everything - mostly!
The story wasn't stunning - a little formulaic - but wow - the performances
Billy Crystal - amazing - timing is everything
Kevin Kline - resurrecting Dave - loved his delivery
And everyone else - almost perfect - especially for free
MORE PLEASE
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- Anonymous User
- 04-17-22
Not at all what I expected! So much better!
I expected a well performed comedy but this was so much more! It was thought provoking and the cast were amazing, a great listen
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- DFH
- 04-06-22
Warning if driving whilst listening …
You may cry at the end, as I did, so you have been warned if you’re driving whilst listening. Superb performances all around and it being recorded front of an audience added to the performance. I’m so glad I downloaded this free from Audible - I loved it.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-06-22
Wonderful
Found this gem by accident. Just wonderful!brilliant story . Love it even more as it’s free
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- Linda Carol Fallon
- 04-04-22
Lovely and powerful
So pleased I listened to this amazing sound play. Such a beautiful story and an amazing cast. I laughed out loud and cried
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- Linda Hamilton-Ross
- 04-02-22
Totally Fabulous
Such a lot to laugh at but also some really heartening moments. You will not regret listening to this.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-09-22
VERY INTERESTING
I really enjoyed this and the messages it sent were very applicable and it was delivered in a wonderful way everyone was great
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- Rachael Mayo
- 12-28-21
Have a nice day indeed.
I wasn't sure what to expect but I absolutely LOVED it. 💜 With this cast, I should have known it would be great.
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- Robbie
- 11-26-21
Billy delivers
This is laugh out loud material
Thanks to all concerned for some light relief amidst all the gloom
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- Rodney Wetherell
- 10-27-21
Great production of play with a weak ending
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'.
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- Cecile
- 10-19-21
pure entertainment
great play, goofy at times, with some cerebral and wise pearls. Great production, feels real.
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- Lucie Compton
- 09-26-21
Lovely story
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.