I solemnly swear I will not write this review lovingly mocking Will!iam SHATner’s cadence. But an understanding reader will grant me at least the title? Yesterday I finished listening to Together Tonight, an audio play in which the writings of Mssrs Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson were used to create a fictional conversation between men who in real life were sharp rivals. After discovering that it was a contemporary recording of a play called No Love Lost, which ORIGINALLY featured William Shatner, Jack Lemmon, and Martin Landau (!!), I had to see if the original recording was out there. It is. And it’s fun. The level of acting talent here is both a blessing and a curse: it’s MARKEDLY easier to tell who is speaking and who! is not, but at the same time my familiarity with Lemmon and Shatner disrupted immersion. However, the sound design in general is far easier for a listening audience, with a narrator describing things that cannot be heard. The script was more streamlined, through, only 2/3rds of Together Tonight, and the voice actors were distractingly…old. I could not listen to “Burr” talk without seeing Jack Lemmon sitting at the table in Twelve Angry Men, his white hair shining, rustling through papers. At the time of this conversation, the narrator informs us these men were all in their forties — but they sound like the silver haired retirees who gather in my city diner every morning to drink coffee, flirt with the waitress, and discuss the affairs of the world. Ultimately, I much prefer the modern Audible version, even if its versions of Hamilton and Jefferson take more time to tell apart — their actors do not overwhelm the roles, and the Audible version had some elements I enjoyed (like the characters’ interior thoughts) that were not present in this one.