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Neil Simon
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Brings together the texts of Simon’s plays, including Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, California Suite, God’s Favorite, The Sunshine Boys, and The Prisoner of Second Avenue.
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An uplifting rhyming story about becoming a well-rounded person.
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The 16 essays and interviews in this volume explore the background and works of Neil Simon, the most successful playwright in American history. Several of the entries trace Simon’s Jewish…
In the twenty-two interviews included in Conversations with Neil Simon, Simon talks candidly about what it was like to write commercially successful plays that were dismissed by critics and scholars…
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Susan Koprince
Widely known as Broadway’s king of comedy, Neil Simon has written such plays as Barefoot in the Park , The Odd Couple , Brighton Beach Memoirs and the Pulitzer Prize-winning…
Ron West,Phil Swann,Neil Simon
Title page erroniously states music & lyrics by Neil Simon; cover and other sources state book & lyrics by Neil Simon.
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Neil Simon’s The Governess, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
A Study Guide for Neil Simon’s Biloxi Blues, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
A Study Guide for Neil Simon’s Lost in Yonkers, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
A Study Guide for Neil Simon’s Odd Couple, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
Comedy Characters: 6 male, 6 female
Interior Set
From America’s master of Contemporary Broadway Comedy, here is another revealing comedy behind the scenes in the entertainment world, this time near…
Vol. 1-2 contains 15 plays originally published 1971-1979.
A Study Guide for Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
A Study Guide for Neil Simon’s The Prisoner of Second Avenue, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
Full Length, Comedy
Characters: 2 male, 2 female
In her beach house in the Hamptons, celebrated writer Rose Stern stands at a crossroads: she hasn’t written anything in…
A four part comedy confection as only Neil Simon can write it! Four couples arrive, in turn, from London, Philadelphia, Chicago and New York and separately inhabit a Beverly Hills…
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…
Comedy / Casting: 2m, 3f / Scenery: Var. settings This Broadway hit is a composite of Neil Simon and Anton Chekhov. In one sketch a harridan storms a bank and…
Characters: 1 male, 3 female
Middle-aged and married, overworked and overweight, Barney Cashman wants to join the sexual revolution before it’s too late…
Comic trouble with Unger and Madison– Florence Unger and Olive Madison, that is.
Fifteen-year-old Eugene Jerome is trying to uncover life’s mysteries in this play about growing up in Brooklyn during the late 1930’s.
A naive recruit is sent from the comforts of his Brooklyn home to basic training in Biloxi, Miss.
Third volume of the author’s autobiographical trilolgy of plays, following Brighton Beach memoirs and Biloxi blues.
After the deputy mayor of New York City is found with a superficial bullet wo and his wife disappears, four couples invited to his home try to hide what t…
Comedy / Characters: 3 male, 3 femaleScenery: Interior
America’s premier comic playwright crosses the Atlantic for a suite of hilarious comedies set in a deluxe London hotel a sedate place…
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…
The playwright recounts his painful childhood, his many influences, anecdotes from his career, and the devastating death of his wife.
Set in Yonkers, New York in 1942, two boys, aged 13 and 16, must spend one year with their austere and demanding grandmother. While the war rages in Europe, Jay…
In The Prisoner of Second Avenue, Richard Dreyfuss, Sharon Madden and Marsha Mason reprise their acclaimed West End production of Neil Simon’s hilarious comedy about a long-married New York City…
Comedy / 7m, 3f / Int/ext. Leon Tolchinsky is ecstatic. He’s landed a terrific teaching job in an idyllic Russian hamlet. When he arrives he finds people sweeping dust from…
Successful Long Island businessman Joe Benjamin is a modern-day ‘Job’ with a demanding wife, ungrateful children, and wise-cracking household employees. Just when it seems things couldn’t get any worse, he…
Herb, a Hollywood scriptwriter currently at liberty, is surprised when his forgotten past reappears in the form of Libby, a teenage daughter who’s trekked from Brooklyn with dreams of movie…
From America’s favorite playwright (Plaza Suite, The Odd Couple, and Lost in Yonkers), comes a screamingly funny (Philadelphia Inquirer) Broadway hit about a team of comedy writers in television’s Golden…
Rose and Walsh follows two great literary figures and the depth and consequence of their enduring love. At a beautiful beach house on the tip of Long Island, Rose, a…
Neil Simons hilarious comedy follows three brief encounters in the same suite at the famed Plaza Hotel in New York City. A BBC co-production
Genre: Dramatic Comedy Characters: 3 males, 3 females Scenery: Interior Maureen Stapleton won Broadway’s Tony Award as Best Actress for the role of Evy Meara, a popular singer who has…
This farce centres around the efforts of eight party guests to spare their unfortunate host, and themselves, from scandal.
DIRECTED BY PETER LEVIN STARRING (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER)
America’s premier funny man and the Tony Award-winning composer of A Chorus Line; collaborated on this hit musical; a funny, romantic show about an established composer and his relationship with…
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A brand-new lawyer and his bride have returned from their honeymoon and are moving into a new apartment. Once there, they find the place is bare of furniture, the paint…
This showstopper from the movie Wonka is sure to be a crowd-pleaser! This terrific arrangement has many teachable moments, including swinging eighth notes, dynamic shifts, rhythmic interplay, independence, and more…
