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In Neil Simon's darkly funny memoir of his family in 1930's Brooklyn, 14-year-old Eugene is preoccupied by his passion for the Yankees and his lust for his beautiful cousin. Eugene's comic growing pains contrast with the darker issues troubling his family: poverty, illness and the growing Nazi threat to relatives abroad. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Max Casella, Peter Michael Goetz, Valerie Harper, Alexana Lambros, Anna Sophie...
3) Biloxi blues
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The second hilarious installment of Neil Simon's acclaimed autobiographical trilogy follows a naïve Eugene Jerome through boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi. His sadistic drill sergeant - who might just be nuts - is only part of Eugene's awakening journey in which he encounters an odd and eclectic group of fellow recruits and his first experiences with sex and love. A Tony Award winner for Best Play. Includes an exclusive interview with Neil Simon....
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Poker buddies Felix Ungar and Oscar Madison suddenly find themselves bachelors again and innocently decide to share an apartment. In this classic comedy by America's most prolific and successful playwright, these two legendarily mismatched roommates bring down the house when they try to live together in one eight-room New York City apartment. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Dan Castellaneta, Stanley DeSantis, Steven Hack, Jamie...
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The final installment of the playwright Neil Simon's acclaimed biographical Eugene Trilogy, preceded by Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues. Having returned from World War II, Eugene Jerome and his brother Stanley pair up to break into the world of professional comedy writing. Inspiration strikes when they aim their sights on their dysfunctional family – and the network broadcasts it nationwide! A Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize nominee for Best...
6) 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. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Edward Asner, Michelle Costa, Richard Dreyfuss, Hector Elizondo, Amy Irving, Marsha Mason, Alfred Molina, Kerry Shale, Joe Spano and JoBeth Williams.
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Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, The Sunshine Boys -- Neil Simon's plays and movies have kept many millions of people laughing for almost four decades. Today he is recognized not only as the most successful American playwright of all time, but also as one of the greatest. More than the humor, however, it is the humanity of Neil Simon's vision that has made him America's most beloved playwright and earned him such enduring success. Now, in Rewrites,...
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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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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) The Goodbye Girl
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In this unique audio adaptation of Neil Simon's screenplay, Paula McFadden's a down-on-her-luck actress who's forced to take in a new roommate – the eccentric, noisy, and generally unpleasant Eliot Garfield– who also happens to be an actor. As their careers and finances hit new lows, their reluctant partnership threatens to turn into something neither one wants. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring (in alphabetical order): Ellis...
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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.
13) 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,...
14) 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 outstanding Neil Simon plays in one fabulous collection: Barefoot in the Park; Biloxi Blues; Brighton Beach Memoirs; Broadway Bound; California Suite; Chapter Two; Lost in Yonkers; The Odd Couple; Plaza Suite; The Prisoner of Second Avenue. Ten full-cast performances featuring: Dan Castellaneta, Scott Wolf, Jonathan Silverman, JoBeth Williams, Justine Bateman, Josh Radnor, Max Casella, Valerie Harper and many more.
16) The Odd couple
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Centennial collection volume 7
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Neil Simon has a special genius for finding the great hilarity in ordinary people doing everyday things. Like two divorced men who decide to share a New York apartment. That's the premise of The Odd Couple, though there's nothing odd in the casting of two Oscar®-winning talents like Jack Lemmon and Walter Mathau. The two veteran funnymen work together with the precision timing of a vaudeville team, but always with bright spontaneity. Lemmon plays...
17) Murder by death
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An eccentric millionaire invites five world famous detectives to dinner and reveals to them that at midnight, someone in the dining room will be stabbed to death.
19) The Marrying Man
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Millionaire playboy Charley Pearl has got it all, and he's about to marry the daughter of the most powerful man in Hollywood. But then he meets sultry Las Vegas lounge singer Vicki Anderson, and it's lust at first sight!
20) The Odd Couple
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Neil Simon has a special genius for finding the great hilarity in ordinary people doing everyday things. Like two divorced men who decide to share a New York apartment. That's the premise of The Odd Couple, though there's nothing odd in the casting of two Oscar®-winning talents like Jack Lemmon and Walter Mathau. The two veteran funnymen work together with the precision timing of a vaudeville team, but always with bright spontaneity. Lemmon plays...