The eight plays in the second volume of The Collected Plays of Neil Simon bear eloquent witness to the unique genius of a master playwright who so magnificently blended the joy of laughter and the love of life.This volume includes:• Little Me• The Gingerbread Lady• The Prisoner of Second Avenue• The Sunshine Boys• The Good Doctor• God's Favorite• California Suite• Chapter Two• And an Introduction by the author: “As Time Flies By”Nothing can take away the pleasure that Neil Simon's plays have given literally millions of theatergoers in the past quarter of a centu... [Read More]
This first volume of The Collected Plays of Neil Simon contains the triumphs that put his unique brand of comic genius on the American stage, and made him the most successful playwright of his generation.This volume includes:• Come Blow Your Horn• Barefoot in the Park• The Odd Couple• Plaza Suite• The Star-Spangled Girl• Promises, Promises• Last of the Red Hot Lover• And an Introduction by the author: “Portrait of the Writer as a Schizophrenic”Neil Simon’s mixture of verbal wit and beautifully crafted farce, ethnic humor and insight into universal foible, and abo... [Read More]
Since 1960, a Broadway season without a Neil Simon play has been a rare one. For more than thirty years, Simon's wry and astute observations on life, love, and the human condition have been making audiences laugh uproariously even as his beautifully realized characters touch their hearts. These five plays, including the Pulitzer- and Tony-award-winning Lost in Yonkers, show Simon at the pinnacle of his extraordinary career. Rumors Lost in Yonkers Jake's Women Laughter on the 23rd Floor London Suite Including the author's introduction: "How to Stop Writing and Other Impossibilities"
Farce / 5m, 5f / Int. At a large, tastefully appointed Sneden's Landing townhouse, the Deputy Mayor of New York has just shot himself. Though only a flesh wound, four couples are about to experience a severe attack of Farce. Gathering for their tenth wedding anniversary, the host lies bleeding in the other room and his wife is nowhere in sight. His lawyer, Ken and wife Chris must get "the story" straight before the other guests arrive. As the confusions and mis-communications mount, the evening spins off into classic farcical hilarity. "Light, frothy and fun." - New York Post "Has nothing on i... [Read More]
Comedy / 2m, 6f / Int. Unger and Madison are at it again! Florence Unger and Olive Madison, that is, in Neil Simon's hilarious contemporary comic classic: the female version of The Odd Couple. Instead of the poker party that begins the original version, Ms. Madison has invited the girls over for an evening of Trivial Pursuit. The Pidgeon sisters have been replaced by the two Constanzuela brothers. But the hilarity remains the same. "Very funny indeed." - New York Post "Endearing." - USA Today
A young boy from Brooklyn comes of age in the first play in Neil Simon’s semi-autobiographical “Eugene Trilogy”—followed by Biloxi Blues and Broadway Bound.Meet Eugene Jerome and his family, fighting the hard times and sometimes each other—with laughter, tears, and love. It is 1937 in Brooklyn during the heart of the Depression. Fifteen-year-old Eugene Jerome lives in Brighton Beach with his family. He is witty, perceptive, obsessed with sex, and forever fantasizing his baseball-diamond triumphs as star pitcher for the New York Yankees. As our guide through his “memoirs,” Eugene ... [Read More]
Neil Simon’s inimitable play about the trials and tribulations that test family ties—winner of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.What happens to children in the absence of love? That is the question that lies at the heart of this funny and heartrending play by one of America’s most acclaimed and beloved playwrights. Debuting at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in 1990, Lost in Yonkers went on to win four Tony Awards, including Best Play, as well as the Pulitzer Prize, and tells the moving drama about the cruelties and painful memories that scar a family.It is New York, 1942. After the death o... [Read More]
Comedy / 4m, 2f / Int. Paul and Corie Bratter are newlyweds in every sense of the word. He's a straight-as-an-arrow lawyer and she's a free spirit always looking for the latest kick. Their new apartment is her most recent find-too expensive with bad plumbing and in need of a paint job. After a six day honeymoon, they get a surprise visit from Corie's loopy mother and decide to play matchmaker during a dinner with their neighbor-in-the-attic Velasco, where everything that can go wrong, does. Pa
Comedy and pathos mingle brilliantly in Neil Simons portrait of a widowed New York novelist who fears hell never love again and has no interest in dating. Neither does smart, attractive Jennie Malone, who has just returned from getting a Mexican divorce. A grudging five-minute meeting between them blossoms into a passionate, witty romanceuntil they decide to marry. A BBC co-production. A L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring: David Dukes, Sharon Gless, Gates McFadden and Grant Shaud.
A renowned playwright presents a charming personal memoir that contains reflections and anecdotes about his experiences in show business and its big names, as well as his feelings about the writing lifestyle. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.
Neil Simon s acclaimed semi-autobiographical Eugene Trilogy: Brighton Beach Memoirs In the first installment of the trilogy, 14-year-old Eugene is preoccupied by his passion for the Yankees and his lust for his beautiful cousin. Biloxi Blues The second hilarious installment of the Eugene Trilogy follows our naïve hero and his sadistic drill sergeant through boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi. Broadway Bound Having returned from World War II, Eugene Jerome and his brother Stanley pair up to break into the world of professional comedy writing.
Comedy / Characters: 3 male, 3 femaleScenery: InteriorAmerica's premier comic playwright crosses the Atlantic for a suite of hilarious comedies set in a deluxe London hotel a sedate place until these characters check in. In Settling Accounts, the suite is occupied by an inebriated Welsh writer who is holding his long time business manager, caught absconding with the writer's money, at gun point. The villian concocts increasingly farfetched explanations of what he was doing at Heathrow with the cash.An American widow and her daughter, in England to buy shoes, take over the suite in Going Home. ... [Read More]
Winner of the 1985 Tony Award for Best Play, the second hilarious installment of Neil Simon's acclaimed autobiographical trilogy follows a naïve Eugene Jerome through boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi. His sadistic drill sergeant-who might just be nuts-is only part of Eugene's awakening journey in which he encounters an odd and eclectic group of fellow recruits, and his first experiences with sex and love. In the end, our young, aspiring writer takes away more than just his basic training. This production features an exclusive interview with the prolific playwright. Starring Justine Bateman,... [Read More]
A delightful romantic fable about an idealistic scoolteacher, Leon Tolchinsky... the townspeople of a remote Ukrainian village who are all fools because of the curse put on the town two hundred years ago... and Sophia, the enchanting young pupil whom Leon vainly sets out to educate in hopes of lifting the spell but winds up falling in love with instead. When Leon and Sophia marry, the curse is miraculously lifted (since it only remained in force while people believed in its power) and the townspeople are free to become as intelligent - or as foolish - as they would have been otherwise.
2006 compilation of Neil Sedakas greatest hits can be divided into three parts, of course all the massive hits: quot;Oh Carol,quot; quot;Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteenquot;, quot;Calender Girlquot; and quot;Laughter in the Rainquot;. Many of his
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