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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

Neil Simon's Memoirs

Author : Neil Simon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501155008
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Neil Simon's Memoirs written by Neil Simon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Now, for the first time ever, Simon's complete life story is collected in one volume with a new introduction and afterword"--Jacket.

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:

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.

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"

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.

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.

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.

Little me

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little me written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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:

Neil Simon

Author : Gary Konas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135598851
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Neil Simon written by Gary Konas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1997.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 heritage and its influence on his plays. Although Simon is best known as a writer of a remarkable series of hit Broadway comedies, the contributors to this book have identified a number of "serious" recurring themes in his work, suggesting that a reassessment of the playwright as a dramatist is appropriate. Three interviews with Simon and his longtime producer yield valuable facts about the playwright that will, along with the critical essays, aid the scholar seeking new insights into contemporary American drama in general and Neil Simon in particular.

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.

Broadway Bound

Author : Neil Simon
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573690532
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Broadway Bound written by Neil Simon and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1987 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Length: 2 acts.

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.

Laughter on the 23rd Floor

Author : Neil Simon
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
ISBN 13 : 0573694141
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Laughter on the 23rd Floor written by Neil Simon and published by Concord Theatricals. This book was released on 1995 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the playwright's youthful experience as a staff writer on Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows, with all the attendant comic drama as the harried writing staff frantically scramble to top each other with gags while competing for the attention of star madman "Max Prince."

The Collected Plays of Neil Simon

Author : Neil Simon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 068484785X
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book The Collected Plays of Neil Simon written by Neil Simon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-04-28 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the texts of five plays written by Neil Simon between 1990 and 1996, including the Pulitzer- and Tony-award-winning "Lost in Yonkers."

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.