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Rewrites

Author : Neil Simon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 147110513X
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Rewrites written by Neil Simon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neil Simon's plays are to some extent a reflection of his life, sometimes autobiographical, other times based on the experiences of those close to him. What the reader of this warm, nostalgic memoir discovers, however, is that the plays, although grounded in Neil Simon's own experience, provide only a glimpse into the mind and soul of this very private man. In Rewrites, he tells of the painful discord he endured at home as a child, of his struggles to develop his talent as a writer, and of his insecurities when dealing with what proved to be his first great success -- falling in love. Supporting players in the anecdote-filled memoir include Sid Caesar, Jerry Lewis, Walter Matthau, Robert Redford, Gwen Verdon, Bob Fosse, Maureen Stapleton, George C. Scott, Peter Sellers, and Mike Nichols. But always at center stage is his first love, his wife Joan, whose death in the early seventies devastated him, and whose love and inspiration illuminate this remarkable and revealing self-portrait. Rewritesis rich in laughter and emotion, and filled with the memories of a sometimes sweet, sometimes bittersweet life.

The Collected Plays of Neil Simon Vol IV

Author : Neil Simon
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780684847856
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Plays of Neil Simon Vol IV written by Neil Simon and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1998-04-28 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1960, a Broadway season without a Neil Simon play has been a rare one. For more than thirty years, Simon's wry and astute observations on life, love, and the human condition have been making audiences laugh uproariously even as his beautifully realized characters touch their hearts. These five plays, including the Pulitzer- and Tony-award-winning Lost in Yonkers, show Simon at the pinnacle of his extraordinary career. Rumors Lost in Yonkers Jake's Women Laughter on the 23rd Floor London Suite Including the author's introduction: "How to Stop Writing and Other Impossibilities"

The Play Goes On

Author : Neil Simon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743242289
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book The Play Goes On written by Neil Simon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing and heartfelt memoir of a Pulitzer Prize–winning artist finding joy and inspiration after tragedy. In his critically acclaimed Rewrites, Neil Simon talked about his beginnings—his early years of working in television, his first real love, his first play, his first brush with failure, and, most moving of all, his first great loss. Simon's same willingness to open his heart to the reader permeates The Play Goes On. This second act takes the reader from the mid-1970s to the present, a period in which Simon wrote some of his most popular and critically acclaimed plays, including the Brighton Beach trilogy and Lost in Yonkers, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. Simon experienced enormous professional success during this time, but in his personal life he struggled to find that same sense of happiness and satisfaction. After the death of his first wife, he and his two young daughters left New York for Hollywood. There he remarried, and when that foundered he remarried again. Told with his characteristic humor and unflinching sense of irony, The Play Goes On is rich with stories of how Simon's art came to imitate his life. Simon's forty-plus plays make up a body of work that is a long-running memoir in its own right, yet here, in a deeper and more personal book than his first volume, Simon offers a revealing look at an artist in crisis but still able and willing to laugh at himself.

Understanding Neil Simon

Author : Susan Fehrenbacher Koprince
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570034268
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Neil Simon written by Susan Fehrenbacher Koprince and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Koprince (English, U. of North Dakota at Grand Forks) seeks to grant the prolific and popular playwright a measure of the serious literary attention that has passed his work by. She analyzes 16 of Simon's comedies beginning with his first Broadway effort, Blow your horn (1961) and ending with Laughter on the 23rd floor (1993). Koprince emphasizes Simon's versatility, craftsmanship, and willingness to experiment with the comedic form as well as the fundamentally serious nature of his plays. Small format: 5.25x7.25". Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Chapter Two

Author : Neil Simon
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1435759419
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Chapter Two written by Neil Simon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 1979 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rumors

Author : Neil Simon
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
ISBN 13 : 9780573691607
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Rumors written by Neil Simon and published by Concord Theatricals. This book was released on 1990 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Prisoner of Second Avenue

Author : Neil Simon
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573614293
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book The Prisoner of Second Avenue written by Neil Simon and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1972 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Comedy / Characters: 2 males, 4 females Scenery: Interior 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 cant seem to get any worse ... then hes 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 its the best thing that ever happened to him."--Back cover.

Neil Simon's Proposals

Author : Neil Simon
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573650994
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Neil Simon's Proposals written by Neil Simon and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This elegiac memory play delightfully recalls the last time the Hines family gathered at their retreat in the Poconos. The summer of 1953 brings romantic entanglements that coalesce one idyllic afternoon; Burt Hines, mid-50's and convalescing from a second heart attack, eagerly anticipates the arrival of the ex-wife he still loves. Daughter Josie has just broken her engagement to a Harvard law student and pines for his buddy Ray, an aspiring writer with whom she once had a brief fling. Clemma, the black housekeeper at the center of the action casts a astute eye on the complications while facing with her own unresolved past.

Biloxi Blues

Author : Neil Simon
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
ISBN 13 : 0573690405
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Biloxi Blues written by Neil Simon and published by Concord Theatricals. This book was released on 1986 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Fools

Author : Neil Simon
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
ISBN 13 : 9780573608773
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Fools written by Neil Simon and published by Concord Theatricals. This book was released on 1981 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the stoops back into their houses and people milking upside down to get more cream. The town has been cursed with Chronic Stupidity for two hundred years, and Leon’s job is to break the curse. No one tells him that if he stays over twenty-four hours and fails to break the curse, he too becomes stupid. But he has fallen in love with a girl so stupid, she has only recently learned how to sit down.

The Gingerbread Lady

Author : Neil Simon
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573609350
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Gingerbread Lady written by Neil Simon and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1971 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Neil Simon Scenes

Author : Neil Simon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780940669482
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (694 download)

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Download or read book Neil Simon Scenes written by Neil Simon and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lost in Yonkers

Author : Neil Simon
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0452268834
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book Lost in Yonkers written by Neil Simon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neil Simon’s inimitable play about the trials and tribulations that test family ties—winner of the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. What happens to children in the absence of love? That is the question that lies at the heart of this funny and heartrending play by one of America’s most acclaimed and beloved playwrights. Debuting at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in 1990, Lost in Yonkers went on to win four Tony Awards, including Best Play, as well as the Pulitzer Prize, and tells the moving drama about the cruelties and painful memories that scar a family. It is New York, 1942. After the death of their mother, two young brothers are sent to stay with their formidable grandmother for the longest ten months of their lives. Grandmother Kurnitz is a one-woman German front—a refugee and a widow who has steeled her heart against the world. Her coldness and intolerance have crippled her own children: the boys’ father has no self-esteem; their Aunt Gert has an embarrassing speech impediment; their Uncle Louie is a small-time gangster; and their Aunt Bella has the mentality of a child. But it is Bella's hunger for affection and her refusal to be denied love that saves the boys—and that leads to an unforgettable, wrenching confrontation with her mother. Filled with laughter, tears, and insight, Lost in Yonkers is a heartwarming testament to Neil Simon’s talent.

Neil Simon's 45 Seconds from Broadway

Author : Neil Simon
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573628504
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (285 download)

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Download or read book Neil Simon's 45 Seconds from Broadway written by Neil Simon and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the heart of the theatre district. 45 Seconds from Broadway takes place in the legendary "Polish Tea Room" on New York's 47th Street. Here Broadway theatre personalities washed-up and on-the-rise, gather to schmooz even as they lose. This touching valentine to New York

Brighton Beach Memoirs

Author : Neil Simon
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0452275288
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (522 download)

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Download or read book Brighton Beach Memoirs written by Neil Simon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1995-11-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young boy from Brooklyn comes of age in the first play in Neil Simon’s semi-autobiographical “Eugene Trilogy”—followed by Biloxi Blues and Broadway Bound. Meet Eugene Jerome and his family, fighting the hard times and sometimes each other—with laughter, tears, and love. It is 1937 in Brooklyn during the heart of the Depression. Fifteen-year-old Eugene Jerome lives in Brighton Beach with his family. He is witty, perceptive, obsessed with sex, and forever fantasizing his baseball-diamond triumphs as star pitcher for the New York Yankees. As our guide through his “memoirs,” Eugene takes us through a series of trenchant observations and insights that show his family meeting life's challenges with pride, spirit, and a marvelous sense of humor. But as World War II looms ever closer, Eugene sees his own innocence slipping away as the first important era of his life ends—and a new one begins. Winner of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play

God's Favorite

Author : Neil Simon
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573609725
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book God's Favorite written by Neil Simon and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1975 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cast size: medium.

Barefoot in the Park

Author : Neil Simon
Publisher : LA Theatre Works
ISBN 13 : 9781580814119
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book Barefoot in the Park written by Neil Simon and published by LA Theatre Works. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brand new lawyer and his young bride have returned from their honeymoon and are moving into their new high-rent apartment only to find that the place is absolutely bare of furniture, the paint job is all wrong, the skylight leaks, there is room for only one twin bed, and the wacky neighbors pop up at the worst times.