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The Collected Plays of Neil Simon by Neil Simon


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Brings together the texts of Simon's plays, including Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, California Suite, God's Favorite, The Sunshine Boys, and The Prisoner of Second Avenue.

The Collected Plays of Neil Simon Summary

The Collected Plays of Neil Simon: Volume 1 by Neil Simon

This first volume of The Collected Plays of Neil Simon contains the triumphs that put hisunique brand of comic genius on the American stage, and made him the most successful playwright of his generation.

This volume includes:
Come Blow Your Horn
Barefoot in the Park
The Odd Couple
Plaza Suite
The Star-Spangled Girl
Promises, Promises
Last of the Red Hot Lover
And an Introduction by the author: Portrait of the Writer as a Schizophrenic

Neil Simonsmixture of verbal wit and beautifully crafted farce, ethnic humor and insight into universal foible, and above all compassion and understanding, make even his sharpest barbs touch the heart as well as the funny bone. These seven plays, beginning with his unforgettable debut, Come Blow Your Horn, make us laugh uproariously even as we indelibly identify with the objects of our laughter.

The Collected Plays of Neil Simon Reviews

If Broadway ever erects a monument to a patron saint of laughter, Neil Simon will have to be it.TimeMagazine

About Neil Simon

Since 1960, a Broadway season without a Neil Simon comedy or musical has been a rare one. His first play was Come Blow Your Horn, followed by the musical Little Me. During the 1966-67 season, Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, Sweet Charity, and The Star-Spangled Girl were all running simultaneously; in the 1970-71 season, Broadway theatergoers had their choice of Plaza Suite, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, and Promises, Promises. Next came The Gingerbread Lady, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, The Sunshine Boys, The Good Doctor, God's Favorite, California Suite, Chapter Two, the musical They're Playing Our Song, I Ought to Be in Pictures, Brighton Beach Memoirs (which won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play of 1983), Biloxi Blues (which won the Tony Award for Best Play of 1985), and the female version of The Odd Couple.

Mr. Simon began his writing career in television, writing The Phil Silvers Show and Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows. He also wrote the screen adaptations of Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, Plaza Suite, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, The Sunshine Boys, California Suite, Chapter Two, and I Ought to Be in Pictures. His original screenplays include The Out-of-Towners, The Heartbreak Kid, Murder by Death, The Goodbye Girl, The Cheap Detective, Seems Like Old Times, Only When I Laugh, Max Dugan Returns, and The Slugger's Wife. He received the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1991 for Lost in Yonkers. He died in 2018.

Table of Contents

The Collected Plays Of Neil SimonIntroduction: Portrait of the Writer as a Schizophrenic

Come Blow Your Horn

Barefoot In The Park

The Odd Couple

The Star-Spangled Girl

Promises, Promises

Plaza Suite

Last Of The Red Hot Lovers

Additional information

GOR010275276
9780452258709
0452258707
The Collected Plays of Neil Simon: Volume 1 by Neil Simon
Used - Like New
Paperback
Penguin Putnam Inc
1986-11-01
672
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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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