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Neil Simon

NEIL SIMON

  (1927 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Gary DaSilva  

Marvin Neil Simon was born on July 4, 1927, the second son of Irving Simon, a Jewish travelling salesman, and his wife Mamie. He grew up in the Bronx in New York City. As early as 1948 he was writing scripts together with his brother Danny for radio and television. His sketches for Phil Silvers, Gary Moore, Jerry Lewis etc. contributed to his wide acclaim. He and his brother separated and Neil began writing for the New York Theater scene. address (agent): A. Da Silva, 502 Park Ave., New York, NY 10022; and G. DaSilva, 10100 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90067, mail@garydasilvA.com. address (contact): Armstrong, Hirsch, Jackoway, Tyreman, and Wertheimer, 1888 Century Park, 18th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90067

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         45 Seconds From Broadway         Actors and Actresses         Adventures of Marco Polo         Barefoot in the Park         Biloxi Blues         Brighton Beach Memoirs         Broadway Bound         California Suite         Catch a Star!         Chapter Two         Come Blow Your Horn         Dinner Party, The         Fools         Gingerbread Lady, The         God's Favourite         Good Doctor, The         Goodbye Girl         Heidi         I Ought To Be In Pictures         Jake's Women         Last of the Red Hot Lovers         Laughter On the 23rd Floor         Little Me         London Suite         Lost in Yonkers         New Faces of 1956         Nobody Loves Me         Odd Couple Female Version, The         Odd Couple, The         Plaza Suite         Prisoner of Second Avenue, The         Promises, Promises         Proposals         Rewrites         Rose's Dilemma         Rumors         Rumours [the British Edition]         Sketches         Star-Spangled Girl, The         Sunshine Boys, The         Sweet Charity         They're Playing Our Song         Visitor From Forest Hills         Visitor From Hollywood         Visitor From Mamaroneck

45 Seconds From Broadway

45 Seconds From Broadway
45 seconds from Broadway is the Edison Hotel Coffee Shop - known as "The Polish Tea Room". It is the hangout of Broadway directors and actors

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1st Produced:
Richard Rogers Theater, New York     11 Nov 2001

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1st Published:
Stage and Screem 2001   978-1582880433

Music:
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Comedy

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Actors and Actresses

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Stamford, Connecticut     1983

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Adventures of Marco Polo

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
written with William Friedberg, music by Clay Warnick And Mel Pahl

1st Produced:
-     1959

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1959   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Musical Fantasy

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Barefoot in the Park

Synopsis:
Corrie and Paul are newlyweds who have just moved into their cold eyrie of an apartment. Corrie is starry-eyed, Paul less so after staggering up five flights. their house seems to be populated by unusual people, the most bohemian being Victor whom Corrie finds entertaining. Conic tries matchmaking between Victor and her lonely mother but after a disastrous dinner party she learns that walking barefoot in the park may not necessarily denote joie de vivre - in February it is simply silly!

Notes:
aka Nobody Loves Me

1st Produced:
New Hope, Pennsylvania     1963

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Random House, New York, 1964   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Biloxi Blues

Biloxi Blues
This sequel to Brighton Beach Memoirs won the 1985 Tony Award for Best Play and received its British premiere at the Library theatre, Manchester, in 1991. When we last met Fugene, he was coping with adolescence in the 1930s in Brooklyn. Now it is 1943 and the saga of Fugene Morris Jerome, alter ego of the youthful Neil Simon, continues with him as a young army recruit during the Second World War. 'Joyous and unexpectedly rewarding.' New York Times

Notes:
quasi-autobiographical trilogy

1st Produced:
New York     1984

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Random House, New York, 1986   978-0394551395

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  7            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Brighton Beach Memoirs

Synopsis:
Fifteen year old hero ensnared in American economic depression as World War II threatens Furope.

Notes:
quasi-autobiographical trilogy

1st Produced:
Los Angeles     1983

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Random House, New York, 1984   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Broadway Bound

Synopsis:
Parents may separate but their sons commence successful careers as comedy writers

Notes:
quasi-autobiographical trilogy

1st Produced:
New York     1986

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Random House, New York, 1987   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  3 voices

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California Suite

Synopsis:
A combination of four plays highlighting differences between visitors from different cities and cultures.

Notes:
includes Visitor From New York, Visitor From Philadelphia, Visitor From London, Visitor From Chicago

1st Produced:
Los Angeles     1976

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Random House, New York, 1977   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Catch a Star!

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
written with Danny Simon

1st Produced:
New York     1955

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

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Genre:
Sketches in Sketch

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Chapter Two

Chapter Two
An autobiographical play, about a writer whose wife has died and his matchmaking brother.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Los Angeles     1977

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Random House; 1st edition (November 12, 1978)   978-0394502939

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Come Blow Your Horn

Synopsis:
the owner of the largest artificial fruit business on the east coast's 21 year old son develops an urge to assert himself.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New Hope, Pennsylvania     1960

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1961   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

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Dinner Party, The

Dinner Party, The
the premise of the Dinner Party is simple enough: six people have been invited, unbeknownst to one another, to dine in an elegant private room in an exclusive Parisian restaurant. they arrive one at a time, encountering each other in pairs and trios, until at last they start to detect the pattern that explains why they're there. It turns out that they are all divorced couples. they've been brought together to look backward--and forward--at their damaged relationships. Will--or perhaps more to the point, can--any or all of them reconcile?
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1st Produced:
New York     2000

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French Inc, New York   978-0573628313

Music:
-

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Genre:
comic Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Fools

Synopsis:
Schoolteacher breaks the curse of a town cursed with chronic stupidity for 200 years.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New York     1981

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1981   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Gingerbread Lady, The

Gingerbread Lady, The
Alcoholic woman in Odd Couples relationships with homosexual actor, ageless girlfriend, seventeen year old daughter and ferocious lover.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Plymouth Theatre, New York     1970

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Random House, New York, 1971   978-0394473109

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy. - - Gay, theme/character full length

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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God's Favourite

God's Favourite
the Book of Job - transferring the action to a Long Island Mansion.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New York     1974

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Random House, New York, 1975   978-0394499505

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Good Doctor, The

Good Doctor, The
A series of vignettes from the short stories of Anton Chekov

Notes:
music by Peter Link, lyrics by Simon, from stories by Ckekhov

1st Produced:
New York     1973

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Random House, New York, 1974   978-0394494623

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy with music

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Goodbye Girl

Goodbye Girl
Single mother Paula and her twelve year old daughter are about to move to California with Paula's actor boyfriend, Tony. On the morning of the move Paula finds a note from him saying he has a part in a film and will be in Spain for six months. Broke Paula goes back to dance teaching - something she has not done for a long time. Arriving home from work she meets her landlady who tells her that Tony had sub-let the apartment and the new tenant, Elliott has moved in

Notes:
Music by Marvin Hamlisch; lyrics by David Zippel; book by Neil Simon

1st Produced:
Marquis Theatre, New York     04 Mar 1993

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
Original cast recording: Columbia: (CK 53761) 1993

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Genre:
Musical

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Heidi

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
written with William Friedberg, music by Clay Warnick, from novel by Johanna Spyri

1st Produced:
-     1959

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1959   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Adaptation

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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I Ought To Be In Pictures

I Ought To Be In Pictures
A teenage daughter confronts a Hollywood scriptwriter who is having a dry run.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Los Angeles     1980

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Random House, New York, 1981   978-0394517742

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Jake's Women

Synopsis:
Originally staring Alan Alda, aging author Jake's imagination conjures up the most important women from his life and obliges them to re-enact key scenes from their relationship with him

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
San Diego     1990

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1993   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  7            Other:  -

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Last of the Red Hot Lovers

Synopsis:
Return to the values of marriage after three failed seductions.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New York     1969

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Random House, New York, 1970   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Laughter On the 23rd Floor

Synopsis:
Story about 1950's TV programming and politics.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French Inc, New York   978-0573694141

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  7            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Little Me

Little Me
This whopping, whirling musical burlesque charting the rise to fame and fortune of Bell Poitrine, the queen of the silver screen. This little girl from the wrong side of the tracks, finds her way to the right side, with the help of several willing gentlemen!

Notes:
music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Carolyn Leigh, from novel by Partick Dennis, book by Neil Simon

1st Produced:
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre,New York     17 Nov 1962

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Collected Plays 2", Random house, New York, 1979   -

Music:
Original cast recording: RCA (61482)

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Genre:
Musical

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London Suite

London Suite
Four hilarious one-act comedies set in a posh London hotel: In Settling Accounts, the suite is occupied by an inebriated Welsh writer who is holding his long time business manager - caught absconding with the writer's money - at gun point . An American widow and her daughter then take over the suite in Going Home. At the daughter's insistence, mother spends her last evening in London with a rich Scotsman. the hotel guests in the Man on the Floor are a married couple from New York who have lost their tickets to Wimbledon and are about to lose their suite to Kevin Costner who absolutely must have it now. the evening ends on a funny, bittersweet note with Diana and Sidney, another chapter in the lives of two characters from California Suite. Diana, the Oscar winning actress, and Sidney, her bisexual husband, are now divorced and are seeing each other for the first time in years. He needs money for his lover who is dying of cancer. the money is not a problem for Diana, but the realization that she still loves this man is.

Notes:
Settling Accounts; Going home; the Man On the Floor; Diana And Sydney

1st Produced:
-     1994

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French Inc, New York   978-0573695094

Music:
-

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Genre:
four 1 Acts

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Lost in Yonkers

Lost in Yonkers
Set in 1940s New York, this is the story of Eddie Kurnitz who, when his wife dies, dumps his two teenage sons with their formidable Grandma Kurnitz who runs a candy store in Yonkers. A dark comedy full of emotionally crippled characters, the boys also have to contend with BElla and Louie and their mob connections

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New York     1991

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Random House, New York, 1991   978-0679408901

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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New Faces of 1956

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
written with Danny Simon

1st Produced:
New York     1956

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Sketches in Sketch

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Nobody Loves Me

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
aka Barefoot In the Park

1st Produced:
-     1962

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Odd Couple Female Version, The

Synopsis:
In this Female Version, instead of the poker party, Ms.Madison has invited the girls over for an evening of Trivial Pursuits, and the Pigeon sisters have been replaced by the hilarious Constanzuela brothers

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
-     1985

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1986   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Odd Couple, The

Synopsis:
This renowned comedy begins with a group of the boys meeting to play cards in the apartment of a divorced fellow - and if the mess is any indication, it's no wonder that his wife left him. Late to arrive is another fellow who, they learn, has just been separated from his wife. Since he is very meticulous and tense, they fear he might commit suicide, and so go about locking all the windows. When he arrives, he is scarcely allowed to go to the bathroom alone. As life would have it, the slob bachelor and the meticulous fellow decide to bunk together with hilarious results. the patterns of their own disastrous marriages begin to reappear in this arrangement; and so this too must end.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New York     1965

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Random House, New York, 1966   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Plaza Suite

Synopsis:
Three tales of actual and potential marriages.

Notes:
includes Visitor from Mamaroneck, Visitor From Hollywood, Visitor From Forest Hills

1st Produced:
New York     1968

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Random House, New York, 1969   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  7            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Prisoner of Second Avenue, The

Synopsis:
Entrapment in luxury "You live like some kind of a caged animal in a Second Avenue zoo . . .".

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
New York     1971

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Random House, New York, 1972   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Promises, Promises

Synopsis:
follows the attempt of luckless insurance salesman Chuck Baxter to climb the corporate ladder by subletting his Manhattan pad to randy executives.

Notes:
Book by Neil Simon; Based on the film "the Apartment" by Billy Wilder And I.A.L. Diamond; Music by Burt Bacharach; Lyrics by Hal David

1st Produced:
Shubert Theater, New York     1968

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Random House, New York, 1969   -

Music:
Original cast recording: Varese (302 066 647 2) 1968

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  large cast

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Proposals

Synopsis:
memory play recalling the last time a family gathered at their retreat in the Poconos during the summer of 1953 and the consequential romantic entanglements

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1st Produced:
Quarry, W Yorks     1998

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1987   -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Rewrites

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Rose's Dilemma

Rose's Dilemma
In her beach house in the Hampton's, celebrated writer Rose Stern stands at a crossroads - she hasn't written anything new for years and money is getting short. Her former lover, literary lion Walsh McLaren, offers her - from beyond the grave - an opportunity to gross millions. But it's not going to be easy and a ghost writer is required

Notes:
Hurt by harsh criticism from the playwright Neil Simon, Mary Tyler Moore has withdrawn from his latest comedy, ''Rose's Dilemma,'' which was to open At the Manhattan theater Club on Dec. 18. Ms. Moore was seen storming out the backstage door minutes before the 2 p.m. curtain on Wednesday. Several sources close to the production said she had just received A brusque letter written by Mr. Simon And delivered by his wife, the Actress Elaine Joyce, reproaching her for not knowing her lines. Ms. Moore had received prompting through A microphone in her ear, the sources said. Ms. Moore, who played the title role of A novelist, was replaced by her understudy, Patricia Hodges, on Wednesday And yesterday. Producers said Ms. Hodges would perform At least through the weekend. ''Mary was devastated And completely debilitated personally And professionally,'' said her publicist, Mara Buxbaum, in A prepared statement. ''Mary has been working tirelessly for months but feels pushed out of this production.'' Mr. Simon declined to comment..
- Jason Zinoman, NY Times

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Genre:
romantic frolic

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Rumors

Synopsis:
Shows what happens when people rely on hearsay and gossip

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New York     1988

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Random House, New York, 1990   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Farce

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 11 Page 594

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Rumours [the British Edition]

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1997   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Farce

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Sketches

Synopsis:
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1st Produced:
-     1952

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Genre:
Sketches Sketch

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Star-Spangled Girl, The

Synopsis:
Andy and Norman are two earnest young men using their apartment as a publishing office for a "protest" magazine in San Francisco. Sophie, an Olympic swimmer and all-American girl, moves into another apartment on the same floor. Sophie makes her first appearance paying a good-neighbor visit to the combination home and office of the two publishers. Her friendliness and charm leave Norman hopelessly smitten. thereafter love, with him, is a determined madness, with the humor of it heightened by her frantic rejection of him. Meanwhile, his partner is fielding telephone calls from the irate printer who wants to collect the money due him, and distracting the landlady from thoughts of back rent with motorcycle rides and surfing expeditions. And while she is convinced that they are editing a dangerously subversive magazine, our heroine soon finds that her real source of annoyance is that the wrong man is pressing his attentions on her. Happily this situation is reversed in time, as love and politics blend delightfully

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1st Produced:
New York     1966

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1st Published:
Random House, New York, 1967   -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Sunshine Boys, The

Synopsis:
Irony in the view of lives of two retired comedians whose respective lives turn bitter.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
New York     1972

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Random House, New York, 1973   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

Further Reference:
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Sweet Charity

Sweet Charity
Sweet Charity tells the story of Charity Hope Valentine, a gullible and guileless girl who always gives her heart and dreams to the wrong man. When she meets the nervy Oscar in a lift, she hopes to put her misfortune in love behind her.

Notes:
Book by Neil Simon; Music by Cy Coleman; Lyrics by Dorothy Fields; Based on the screenplay "Nights of Cabiria" by Federico Fellini; Musical Director: Fred Werner; Dance arrangements by Fred Werner; Music orchestrated by Ralph Burns

1st Produced:
Palace Theatre, New York     29 Jan 1966

Organisations:
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1st Published:
-   -

Music:
Original Broadway cast recording: Columbia (2900) 1966

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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They're Playing Our Song

They're Playing Our Song
about an established composer and his relationship with a zany aspiring young female lyricist

Notes:
music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Carol Bayer Sager, book by Neil Simon

1st Produced:
Ahmanson Theatre In Los Angeles     01 Dec 1978

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Random House, New York, 1980   -

Music:
Original cast recording: Casablanca (826240) 1979

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  chorus

Further Reference:
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Visitor From Forest Hills

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "Plaza Suite" French, New York, 1969   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Visitor From Hollywood

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
in "Plaza Suite" French, New York, 1969   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Visitor From Mamaroneck

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "Plaza Suite" French, New York, 1969   -

Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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