Neil Simon Book order
July 4, 1927 – August 26, 2018
Neil Simon was an American playwright and screenwriter, celebrated for his prolific output and consistent success. He authored over 30 plays, establishing himself as one of Broadway's most reliable hitmakers and a globally performed dramatist. While predominantly a master of comedy, his works often delve into profound reflections on the 20th-century Jewish-American experience. Simon's writing is characterized by its sharp wit, relatable characters, and enduring dialogue.
- 2010
- 1998
Brighton Beach Memoirs
- 125 pages
- 5 hours of reading
Full Length, Comic Drama / 3m, 4f / Comb. Ints/Ext. Here is part one of Neil Simon's autobiographical trilogy: a portrait of the writer as a young teen in 1937 living with his family in a crowded, lower middle-class Brooklyn walk-up. Eugene Jerome, standing in for the author, is the narrator and central character. Dreaming of baseball and girls, Eugene must cope with the mundane existence of his family life in Brooklyn: formidable mother, overworked father, and his worldly older brother Stanley
- 1996
- 1981
Fools
- 80 pages
- 3 hours of reading
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.
- 1980
America's premier funny man and the Tony Award-winning composer of A Chorus Line collaborated on this hit musical, a funny, romantic show about an established composer and his relationship with an aspiring young female lyricist, not unlike Carole Bayer Sager. Professionally, their relationship works beautifully-but ultimately leads to conflict on the home front.
- 1975
- 1970
