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NEIL SIMON (1927 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: n/a Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Gary DaSilva |
Marvin Neil Simon was born on July 4, 1927, the second son of Irving Simon, a Jewish travelling salesman, and his wife Mamie. He grew up in the Bronx in New York City. As early as 1948 he was writing scripts together with his brother Danny for radio and television. His sketches for Phil Silvers, Gary Moore, Jerry Lewis etc. contributed to his wide acclaim. He and his brother separated and Neil began writing for the New York theater scene. address (agent): A. Da Silva, 502 Park Ave., New York, NY 10022; and G. DaSilva, 10100 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90067, mail@garydasilva.com. address (contact): Armstrong, Hirsch, Jackoway, Tyreman, and Wertheimer, 1888 Century Park, 18th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90067
Plays by Neil Simon
Actors and Actresses | ||
| 1st Produced: | Stamford, Connecticut | 1983 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32233 | |||
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Adventures of Marco Polo | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1959 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, 1959 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32234 | |||
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Genre: | Musical Fantasy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written with William Friedberg, music by Clay Warnick and Mel Pahl | |||||
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Barefoot in the Park | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Hope, Pennsylvania | 1963 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Random House, New York, 1964 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32235 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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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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Biloxi Blues | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1984 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Random House, New York, 1986 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32236 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 2 | ||
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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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Brighton Beach Memoirs | ||
| 1st Produced: | Los Angeles | 1983 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Random House, New York, 1984 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32237 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | quasi-autobiographical trilogy | |||||
Synopsis: | Fifteen year old hero ensnared in American economic depression as World War II threatens Furope. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Broadway Bound | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1986 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Random House, New York, 1987 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32238 | |||
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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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California Suite | ||
| 1st Produced: | Los Angeles | 1976 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Random House, New York, 1977 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32239 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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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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Catch a Star! | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1955 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32240 | |||
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Genre: | Sketches in Sketch | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written with Danny Simon | |||||
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Chapter Two | ||
| 1st Produced: | Los Angeles | 1977 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Random House, New York, 1979 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32241 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | An autobiographical play, about a writer whose wife has died and his matchmaking brother. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Come Blow Your Horn | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Hope, Pennsylvania | 1960 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, 1961 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32242 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
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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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Dinner Party, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 2000 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #58933 | |||
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Genre: | comic drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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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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Fools | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1981 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1981 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32243 | |||
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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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Gingerbread Lady, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Plymouth Theatre, New York | 1970 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Random House, New York, 1971 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0394473109 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32244 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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| Alcoholic woman in Odd Couples relationships with homosexual actor, ageless girlfriend, seventeen year old daughter and ferocious lover. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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God's Favourite | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1974 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Random House, New York, 1975 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32245 | |||
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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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Good Doctor, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1973 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Random House, New York, 1974 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0394494623 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32246 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy with music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | music by Peter Link, lyrics by Simon, from stories by Ckekhov | |||||
| A series of vignettes from the short stories of Anton Chekov | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Goodbye Girl | ||
| 1st Produced: | Marquis Theatre, New York | 04 Mar 1993 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | CK-53761 | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: Columbia: (CK 53761) 1993 | doollee no | #32247 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Music by Marvin Hamlisch; lyrics by David Zippel; book by Neil Simon | |||||
| 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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Heidi | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1959 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, 1959 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32248 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written with William Friedberg, music by Clay Warnick, from novel by Johanna Spyri | |||||
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I Ought To Be In Pictures | ||
| 1st Produced: | Los Angeles | 1980 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Random House, New York, 1981 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0394517742 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32249 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| A teenage daughter confronts a Hollywood scriptwriter who is having a dry run. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Jake's Women | ||
| 1st Produced: | San Diego | 1990 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32250 | |||
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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 | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Last of the Red Hot Lovers | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1969 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Random House, New York, 1970 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32251 | |||
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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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Laughter On the 23rd Floor | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French Inc, New York | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0573694141 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32252 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 7 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Story about 1950's TV programming and politics. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Little Me | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lunt-Fontanne Theatre,New York | 17 Nov 1962 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Collected Plays 2", Random house, New York, 1979 | ISBN/ASIN: | rca-61482 | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: RCA (61482) | doollee no | #32253 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Carolyn Leigh, from novel by Partick Dennis, book by Neil Simon | |||||
| 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! | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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London Suite | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1994 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French Inc, New York | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0573695094 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32254 | |||
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Genre: | four 1 Acts | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Settling Accounts; Going home; The Man On The Floor; Diana and Sydney | |||||
| 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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Lost in Yonkers | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1991 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Random House, New York, 1991 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0679408901 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32255 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy/Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
| 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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New Faces of 1956 | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1956 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32256 | |||
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Genre: | Sketches in Sketch | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written with Danny Simon | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Nobody Loves Me | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1962 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32257 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | aka Barefoot In The Park | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Odd Couple Female Version, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1985 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1986 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32258 | |||
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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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Odd Couple, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1965 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Random House, New York, 1966 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32259 | |||
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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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Plaza Suite | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1968 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Random House, New York, 1969 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32260 | |||
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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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Prisoner of Second Avenue, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1971 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Random House, New York, 1972 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32261 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Entrapment in luxury "You live like some kind of a caged animal in a Second Avenue zoo . . .". | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Promises, Promises | ||
| 1st Produced: | Shubert Theater, New York | 1968 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Random House, New York, 1969 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: Varese (302 066 647 2) 1968 | doollee no | #32262 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | large cast | |||||
Notes: | Book by Neil Simon; Based on the film "The Apartment" by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond; Music by Burt Bacharach; Lyrics by Hal David | |||||
Synopsis: | follows the attempt of luckless insurance salesman Chuck Baxter to climb the corporate ladder by subletting his Manhattan pad to randy executives. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Proposals | ||
| 1st Produced: | Quarry, W Yorks | 1998 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1987 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32263 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | memory play recalling the last time a family gathered at their retreat in the Poconos during the summer of 1953 and the consequential romantic entanglements | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Rewrites | ||
| 1st Produced: | Seattle Repertory Theatre, 155 Mercer Street, PO Box 900923, Seattle, WA 98109 >>> | 2005 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51517 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Rose's Dilemma | ||
| 1st Produced: | Manhattan Theatre Club, 131 West 55th Street, New York, NY 10019 >>> | Dec 2003 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 2004 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #40186 | |||
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Genre: | romantic frolic | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Hurt by harsh criticism from the playwright Neil Simon, Mary Tyler Moore has withdrawn from his latest comedy, ''Rose's Dilemma,'' which was to open at the Manhattan Theater Club on Dec. 18. Ms. Moore was seen storming out the backstage door minutes before the 2 p.m. curtain on Wednesday. Several sources close to the production said she had just received a brusque letter written by Mr. Simon and delivered by his wife, the actress Elaine Joyce, reproaching her for not knowing her lines. Ms. Moore had received prompting through a microphone in her ear, the sources said. Ms. Moore, who played the title role of a novelist, was replaced by her understudy, Patricia Hodges, on Wednesday and yesterday. Producers said Ms. Hodges would perform at least through the weekend. ''Mary was devastated and completely debilitated personally and professionally,'' said her publicist, Mara Buxbaum, in a prepared statement. ''Mary has been working tirelessly for months but feels pushed out of this production.'' Mr. Simon declined to comment.. | |||||
Synopsis: | In her beach house in the Hampton's, celebrated writer Rose Stern stands at a crossroads - she hasn't written anything new for years and money is getting short. Her former lover, literary lion Walsh McLaren, offers her - from beyond the grave - an opportunity to gross millions. But it's not going to be easy and a ghost writer is required | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Rumors | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1988 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Random House, New York, 1990 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32264 | |||
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Genre: | Farce | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Shows what happens when people rely on hearsay and gossip | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 11 Page 594 | |||||
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Rumours [The British Edition] | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1997 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32265 | |||
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Genre: | Farce | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sketches | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1952 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32266 | |||
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Genre: | Sketches Sketch | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Star-Spangled Girl, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1966 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Random House, New York, 1967 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32267 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Andy and Norman are two earnest young men using their apartment as a publishing office for a "protest" magazine in San Francisco. Sophie, an Olympic swimmer and all-American girl, moves into another apartment on the same floor. Sophie makes her first appearance paying a good-neighbor visit to the combination home and office of the two publishers. Her friendliness and charm leave Norman hopelessly smitten. Thereafter love, with him, is a determined madness, with the humor of it heightened by her frantic rejection of him. Meanwhile, his partner is fielding telephone calls from the irate printer who wants to collect the money due him, and distracting the landlady from thoughts of back rent with motorcycle rides and surfing expeditions. And while she is convinced that they are editing a dangerously subversive magazine, our heroine soon finds that her real source of annoyance is that the wrong man is pressing his attentions on her. Happily this situation is reversed in time, as love and politics blend delightfully | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sunshine Boys, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1972 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Random House, New York, 1973 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32268 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Irony in the view of lives of two retired comedians whose respective lives turn bitter. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sweet Charity | ||
| 1st Produced: | Palace Theater, New York | 1966 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Random House, New York, 1966 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: Columbia (2900) 1966 | doollee no | #32269 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music by Cy Colemen; lyrics by Dorothy Field; book by Neil Simon, , from screenplay Nights of Cabiria by Federico Fellini and Others | |||||
Synopsis: | Sweet Charity tells the story of Charity Hope Valentine, a gullible and guileless girl who always gives her heart and dreams to the wrong man. When she meets the nervy Oscar in a lift, she hopes to put her misfortune in love behind her. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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They're Playing Our Song | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles | Dec 1978 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Random House, New York, 1980 | ISBN/ASIN: | cas-826240 | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording: Casablanca (826240) 1979 | doollee no | #32270 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | chorus | |||||
Notes: | music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Carol Bayer Sager, book by Neil Simon | |||||
| about an established composer and his relationship with a zany aspiring young female lyricist | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Visitor From Forest Hills | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Plaza Suite" French, New York, 1969 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32271 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Visitor From Hollywood | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Plaza Suite" French, New York, 1969 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32272 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Visitor From Mamaroneck | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Plaza Suite" French, New York, 1969 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #32273 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: |
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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