Successive gasps of recognition come from audiences as Chuck Fraher makes his appearance as George Burns ("I did a show for midgets -- they gave me a standing ovation, and I didn't even know it") and Kathy Moxley as Roseanne ("I hate people who yell at you wnen you smoke -- you'd think they'd be nice to someone who's dying").

There are Eddie Carroll as Jack Benny, complete with his "Love in I Bloom" violin and singsong whine; Marcel Forestieri with his three-octave speaking range as Jay Leno, and Bill Sadra doing Dangerfield ("My sister gave a lifeguard $5 to keep an eye off me").

Clearly, there is strength in the material, but the looks and moves are astonishing as well. We came away from the 72-minute production (also featuring music by the John Pruitt trio and Ron Farino's handsomely understated lighting) impressed not just by the physical stamp of the originals, the material and the deft voices, but perhaps most of all by the intermingling of these five major figures in a single production.