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 its...
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 f...
Al and Willie as "Lewis and Clark" were top-billed vaudevillians for over forty years. Now they aren't even speaking. When CBS requests them for a "History of Comedy" retrospective, a grudging reunion brings the two back together, along with a flood of memories, miseries and laughs.
"It's ham on wry...Simon's sure footed craftsmanship and his one liners are as exquisitely apt as ever."-New York Post
"Delicious and oddly affecting."-The New York Times
"Another hit for Simon in a shrewdly balanced, splendid and rather touching...
Full Length, Comedy / 5m, 2f / Scenery: Interior
Al and Willie as "Lewis and Clark" were top-billed vaudevillians for over forty years. Now they a...
Full Length, Comic Drama / Casting: 6m, 2f / Scenery: Various sets
Tony Award Best Play 1985
The second in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Neil Simon's trilogy which began with Brighton Beach Memoirs and concluded with Broadway Bound. When we last met Eugene Jerome, he was coping with adolescence in 1930's Brooklyn. Here, he is a young army recruit during WW II, going through basic training and learning about Life and Love with a capital 'L' along with some harsher lessons, while stationed at boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi in 1943.
A fine comedy, and another step in the process...
Full Length, Comic Drama / Casting: 6m, 2f / Scenery: Various sets
Tony Award Best Play 1985
The second in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nei...
This Broadway hit is a composite of Neil Simon and Anton Chekhov. In one sketch a harridan storms a bank and upbraids the manager for his gout and lack of money. In another, a father takes his son to a house where he will be initiated into the mysteries of sex, only to relent at the last moment and leave the boy more perplexed than ever. In another sketch, a crafty seducer goes to work on a wedded woman, only to realize that the woman has been in command from the first overture. Let us not forget the classic tale of a man who offers to...
Comedy / Casting: 2m, 3f / Scenery: Var. settings
This Broadway hit is a composite of Neil Simon and Anton Chekhov. In one sketch a harridan storm...
Middle-aged and married, overworked and overweight, Barney Cashman wants to join the sexual revolution before it's too late and arranges three seductions: the first, Elaine Navazio proves to be a foul-mouthed bundle of neuroses; Bobbi Michele is next, a 20-ish actress who's too kooky by half; finally comes September and Jeanette Fisher, a gloomy, depressed housewife who happens to be married to Barney's best friend.
"Mr. Simon has created a great character here...it is...
Mel Edison is a well paid executive of a high-end Manhattan firm which has suddenly hit the skids and he gets the ax. His wife Edna takes a job to tide them over, then she too is sacked. Compounded by the air-pollution killing his plants, and with the walls of the apartment paper-thin, allowing him a constant earfull of his neighbors private lives things can't seem to get any worse...then he's robbed and his psychiatrist dies with $23,000 of his money. Mel does the only thing left for him to do-he has a nervous breakdown and it's...
Comedy / Characters: 2 males, 4 females
Scenery: Interior
Mel Edison is a well paid executive of a high-end Manhattan firm which has suddenly hi...
Full Length, Comedy / Characters: 3 male, 4 female
Scenery: Interior
Neil Simon's first Broadway comedy smash. Alan Baker, a 30-ish swinging bachelor with time, money and women to spare, welcomes rebellious and eager 21-year brother Buddy into his den of iniquity while their horrified parents can only watch and pray. This farcical 60's romp became a hit movie starring Frank Sinatra.
"A slick, lively, funny comedy."-The New York Times
Full Length, Comedy / Characters: 3 male, 4 female
Scenery: Interior
Neil Simon's first Broadway comedy smash. Alan Baker, a 30-ish swinging bac...
Neil Simon at his most humane, compassionate best.
It's a humorous confection divided into four parts: Visitor from New York, Visitor from Philadelphia, Visitors from London and Visitors from Chicago.
In Visitor from New York, Hannah, a magazine writer is joined by her ex-husband, the question being with whom should their daughter spend the next six months? The badinage flies fast and furious but Hannah's well-wrought artifice crumbles as her fears take hold.
The Visitor from Philadelphia is a wife who arrives at...
Full Length, Comedy Characters: 2 male, 3 female
Interior set
Neil Simon at his most humane, compassionate best.