Neil Simon
2) Biloxi blues
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Eugene Jerome, a naive recruit from Brooklyn, is sent to boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi where he encounters a tough drill sergeant and an eclectic group of fellow recruits.
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Two poker buddies, one a hyper-neurotic, the other an incurable slob, suddenly find themselves bachelors again and decide to share a New York City apartment. This classic comedic play was later adapted into two motion pictures and a successful television series.
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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 and Arty learn the ropes from Uncle Louie and assorted relatives, all peculiar characters. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Barbara Bain, Gia Carides, Dan Castellaneta, Ben Diskin, Arye Gross, Roxanne Hart and Kenneth Schmidt.
7) Chapter Two
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Comedy and pathos mingle brilliantly in Neil Simon's portrait of a widowed New York novelist who fears he'll 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 romance–until they decide to marry. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring David Dukes, Sharon Gless,...
8) Plaza suite
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Neil Simon's hilarious comedy follows three brief encounters in the same suite at the famed Plaza Hotel in New York City.
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Neil Simon takes a good look at apartment life, career and role reversals, a nervous breakdown, and the love, torture, care, or inertia that somehow keeps a couple in a relationship for many years. At points, it's laugh-out-loud funny; at other times, it offers sensitive insight into the human condition. Fast-moving dialog with nonstop Simon quips and jokes performed extremely well by two fine actors: who could ask for more? This is classic American...
11) California Suite
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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 hotel suite, bringing along their problems, anxieties, and comical marital dilemmas. Beverly Hills will never be the same. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Dennis Boutsikaris, Bruce Davison, Marsha Mason and Amy Pietz.
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Ten essential plays by Neil Simon, one of the world's most celebrated, translated, and widely performed playwrights: Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, Plaza Suite, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, California Suite, Chapter Two, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, Broadway Bound and Lost in Yonkers.
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L.A. Theatre Works
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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 job is wrong, the skylight leaks and wacky neighbors keep popping up! A classic! An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Norman Aronovic, Laura Linney, J. Fred Shiffman, Judy Simmons and Eric Stoltz.
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[1971]
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"After a short stay in rehab, her best friend age-defying Toby, her daughter Polly, and Jimmy Perry, a gay actor try to help her adjust to sobriety with a jolly birthday party. Enter Lou Tanner, a former lover, who ends up giving her a black eye. The party is a wash out, the "gingerbread lady" falls off the wagon and hits the ropes once again. Later rewritten by Neil Simon as the film Only When I Laugh starring Marsha Mason."--Publisher's description...
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Random House
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[1977]
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English
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"Four playlets, each of which takes places in a suite of the Beverly Hills Hotel, comprise this wacky comedy: 'Visitors from New York'--in which a divorced couple (he's now California macrobiotic and she's New York business-executive chic) meet to discuss their daughter's future. 'Visitors from Philadelphia'--in which a family man in town for his nephew's bar mitzvah wakes up to find a very drunk call girl (thoughtfully supplied by his brother-in-law)...
