NEIL SIMON   (1927 - )


Neil Simon
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Plays by Neil Simon

NEIL SIMON
Actors and Actresses
1st Produced:
Stamford, Connecticut
1983
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis:
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NEIL SIMON
Adventures of Marco Polo
1st Produced:
-
1959
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
1959
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Genre:
Musical Fantasy
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: written with William Friedberg, music by Clay Warnick and Mel Pahl
Synopsis:
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NEIL SIMON
Barefoot in the Park
1st Produced:
New Hope, Pennsylvania
1963
Company:
-
1st Published:
Random House, New York
1964
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Genre:
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Comedy
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: aka Nobody Loves Me
Synopsis: Corrie and Paul are newlyweds who have just moved into their cold eyrie of an apartment. Corrie is starry-eyed, Paul less so after staggering up five flights. Their house seems to be populated by unusual people, the most bohemian being Victor whom Corrie finds entertaining. Conic tries matchmaking between Victor and her lonely mother but after a disastrous dinner party she learns that walking barefoot in the park may not necessarily denote joie de vivre - in February it is simply silly!
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NEIL SIMON
Biloxi Blues
1st Produced:
New York
1984
Company:
-
1st Published:
Random House, New York
1986
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
7
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes: quasi-autobiographical trilogy
Synopsis: This sequel to Brighton Beach Memoirs won the 1985 Tony Award for Best Play and received its British premiere at the Library Theatre, Manchester, in 1991. When we last met Fugene, he was coping with adolescence in the 1930s in Brooklyn. Now it is 1943 and the saga of Fugene Morris Jerome, alter ego of the youthful Neil Simon, continues with him as a young army recruit during the Second World War. 'Joyous and unexpectedly rewarding.' New York Times
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NEIL SIMON
Brighton Beach Memoirs
1st Produced:
Los Angeles
1983
Company:
-
1st Published:
Random House, New York
1984
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Genre:
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
4
Parts Other:
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Notes: quasi-autobiographical trilogy
Synopsis: Fifteen year old hero ensnared in American economic depression as World War II threatens Furope.
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NEIL SIMON
Broadway Bound
1st Produced:
New York
1986
Company:
-
1st Published:
Random House, New York
1987
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
3 voices
Notes: quasi-autobiographical trilogy
Synopsis: Parents may separate but their sons commence successful careers as comedy writers
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NEIL SIMON
California Suite
1st Produced:
Los Angeles
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
Random House, New York
1977
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: includes Visitor From New York, Visitor From Philadelphia, Visitor From london, Visitor From Chicago
Synopsis: A combination of four plays highlighting differences between visitors from different cities and cultures.
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NEIL SIMON
Catch a Star!
1st Produced:
New York
1955
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Sketches in
Sketch
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: written with Danny Simon
Synopsis:
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NEIL SIMON
Chapter Two
1st Produced:
Los Angeles
1977
Company:
-
1st Published:
Random House, New York
1979
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: An autobiographical play, about a writer whose wife has died and his matchmaking brother.
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NEIL SIMON
Come Blow Your Horn
1st Produced:
New Hope, Pennsylvania
1960
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
1961
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
3
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: The owner of the largest artificial fruit business on the east coast's 21 year old son develops an urge to assert himself.
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NEIL SIMON
Dinner Party, The
1st Produced:
New York
2000
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
comic drama
Comedy
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: The premise of The Dinner Party is simple enough: six people have been invited, unbeknownst to one another, to dine in an elegant private room in an exclusive Parisian restaurant. They arrive one at a time, encountering each other in pairs and trios, until at last they start to detect the pattern that explains why they're there. It turns out that they are all divorced couples. They've been brought together to look backward--and forward--at their damaged relationships. Will--or perhaps more to the point, can--any or all of them reconcile?
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NEIL SIMON
Fools
1st Produced:
New York
1981
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1981
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
7
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Schoolteacher breaks the curse of a town cursed with chronic stupidity for 200 years.
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NEIL SIMON
Gingerbread Lady, The
1st Produced:
Plymouth Theatre, New York
1970
Company:
-
1st Published:
Random House, New York
1971
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Alcoholic woman in Odd Couples relationships with homosexual actor, ageless girlfriend, seventeen year old daughter and ferocious lover.
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NEIL SIMON
God's Favourite
1st Produced:
New York
1974
Company:
-
1st Published:
Random House, New York
1975
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
5
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: The Book of Job - transferring the action to a Long Island Mansion.
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NEIL SIMON
Good Doctor, The
1st Produced:
New York
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
Random House, New York
1974
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
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Notes: music by Peter Link, lyrics by Simon, from stories by Ckekhov
Synopsis: A series of vignettes from the short stories of Anton Chekov
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NEIL SIMON
Goodbye Girl, The
1st Produced:
Marquis Theater, New York
1992
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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Music:
Original cast recording: Columbia (CK 53761)
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To Buy This Play:
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Genre:
-
Musical
Parts:
Male
-
Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: screenplay 1977. Stage version, music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by David Zippel
Synopsis: Single mother Paula and her twelve year old daughter are about to move to California with Paula's actor boyfriend, Tony. On the morning of the move Paula finds a note from him saying he has a part in a film and will be in Spain for six months. Broke Paula goes back to dance teaching - something she has not done for a long time. Arriving home from work she meets her landlady who tells her that Tony had sub-let the apartment and the new tenant, Elliott has moved in
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NEIL SIMON
Heidi
1st Produced:
-
1959
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, NY
1959
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Genre:
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Adaptation
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes: written with William Friedberg, music by Clay Warnick, from novel by Johanna Spyri
Synopsis:
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NEIL SIMON
I Ought To Be In Pictures
1st Produced:
Los Angeles
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
Random House, New York
1981
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
1
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: A teenage daughter confronts a Hollywood scriptwriter who is having a dry run.
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NEIL SIMON
Jake's Women
1st Produced:
San Diego
1990
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1993
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
1
Female
7
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Originally staring Alan Alda, aging author Jake's imagination conjures up the most important women from his life and obliges them to re-enact key scenes from their relationship with him
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NEIL SIMON
Last of the Red Hot Lovers
1st Produced:
New York
1969
Company:
-
1st Published:
Random House, New York
1970
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
1
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Return to the values of marriage after three failed seductions.
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NEIL SIMON
Laughter On the 23rd Floor
1st Produced:
-
-
Company:
-
1st Published:
French?
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
7
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Story about 1950's TV programming and politics.
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NEIL SIMON
Little Me
1st Produced:
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre,New York
1962
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Collected Plays 2", Random house, New York
1979
Music:
Original cast recording: RCA (61482)
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Genre:
-
Musical
Parts:
Male
-
Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes: music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Carolyn Leigh, from novel by Partick Dennis, book by Neil Simon
Synopsis: This whopping, whirling musical burlesque charting the rise to fame and fortune of Bell Poitrine, the queen of the silver screen. This little girl from the wrong side of the tracks, finds her way to the right side, with the help of several willing gentlemen!
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NEIL SIMON
London Suite
1st Produced:
-
1994
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1996
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Genre:
four 1 Acts
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Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: Settling Accounts; Going home; The Man On The Floor; Diana and Sydney
Synopsis: Four hilarious one-act comedies set in a posh London hotel: 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 . An American widow and her daughter then take over the suite in Going Home. At the daughter's insistence, mother spends her last evening in London with a rich Scotsman. The hotel guests in The Man on the Floor are a married couple from New York who have lost their tickets to Wimbledon and are about to lose their suite to Kevin Costner who absolutely must have it now. The evening ends on a funny, bittersweet note with Diana and Sidney, another chapter in the lives of two characters from California Suite. Diana, the Oscar winning actress, and Sidney, her bisexual husband, are now divorced and are seeing each other for the first time in years. He needs money for his lover who is dying of cancer. The money is not a problem for Diana, but the realization that she still loves this man is.
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NEIL SIMON
Lost in Yonkers
1st Produced:
New York
1991
Company:
-
1st Published:
Random House, New York
1991
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Genre:
Comedy/Drama
Comedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: Set in 1940s New York, this is the story of Eddie Kurnitz who, when his wife dies, dumps his two teenage sons with their formidable Grandma Kurnitz who runs a candy store in Yonkers. A dark comedy full of emotionally crippled characters, the boys also have to contend with Bella and Louie and their mob connections
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NEIL SIMON
New Faces of 1956
1st Produced:
New York
1956
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
Sketches in
Sketch
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes: written with Danny Simon
Synopsis:
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NEIL SIMON
Nobody Loves Me
1st Produced:
-
1962
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
-
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: aka Barefoot In The Park
Synopsis:
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NEIL SIMON
Odd Couple Female Version, The
1st Produced:
-
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
1986
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: In this Female Version, instead of the poker party, Ms.Madison has invited the girls over for an evening of Trivial Pursuits, and the Pigeon sisters have been replaced by the hilarious Constanzuela brothers
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NEIL SIMON
Odd Couple, The
1st Produced:
New York
1965
Company:
-
1st Published:
Random House, New York
1966
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
6
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: This renowned comedy begins with a group of the boys meeting to play cards in the apartment of a divorced fellow - and if the mess is any indication, it's no wonder that his wife left him. Late to arrive is another fellow who, they learn, has just been separated from his wife. Since he is very meticulous and tense, they fear he might commit suicide, and so go about locking all the windows. When he arrives, he is scarcely allowed to go to the bathroom alone. As life would have it, the slob bachelor and the meticulous fellow decide to bunk together with hilarious results. The patterns of their own disastrous marriages begin to reappear in this arrangement; and so this too must end.
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NEIL SIMON
Plaza Suite
1st Produced:
New York
1968
Company:
-
1st Published:
Random House, New York
1969
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
7
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes: includes Visitor from Mamaroneck, Visitor From Hollywood, Visitor From Forest Hills
Synopsis: Three tales of actual and potential marriages.
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NEIL SIMON
Prisoner of Second Avenue, The
1st Produced:
New York
1971
Company:
-
1st Published:
Random House, New York
1972
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts: