The Neil Simon Collection (2010)
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Neil Simon
Overview
Ten essential plays by Neil Simon, one of the world's most celebrated, translated, and widely performed playwrights. <p> Barefoot in the Park<p> Newlyweds move into a new apartment with no furniture, the wrong paint, leaking<p> skylight and wacky neighbors! A classic comedy! Performed by: Norman Aronovic, Laura Linney, J. Fred Shiffman, Judy Simmons and Eric Stoltz. <p> The Odd Couple<p> Two legendarily mismatched roommates bring down the house in this classic comedy by America's most successful playwright. Performed by: Dan Castellaneta, Stanley DeSantis, Steven Hack, Jamie Hanes, Nathan Lane, David Paymer, Linda Purl and Yeardley Smith <p> Plaza Suite<p> Neil Simon's hilarious comedy follows three brief encounters in the same suite at the famed Plaza Hotel in New York City. Performed by: Edward Asner, Michelle Costa, Richard Dreyfuss, Hector Elizondo, Amy Irving, Marsha Mason, Alfred Molina, Kerry Shale, Joe Spano and JoBeth Williams. <p> The Prisoner of Second Avenue<p> Fast-moving dialog with nonstop Simon quips and jokes performed extremely well by two fine actors: who could ask for more? Performed by: Annie Abbott, Lorin Dreyfuss, Richard Dreyfuss, Betty Garrett, Sharon Madden and Marsha Mason. <p> California Suite<p> A four part comedy confection as only Neil Simon can write it! Four couples separately inhabit the same Beverly Hills hotel suite, bringing along their problems, anxieties, and comical marital dilemmas. Performed by: Dennis Boutsikaris, Bruce Davison, Marsha Mason and Amy Pietz. <p> Chapter Two<p> Comedy and pathos mingle brilliantly in Neil Simon's portrait of a widowed novelist who fears he'll never love again. Performed by: David Dukes, Sharon Gless, Gates McFadden and Grant Shaud. <p> Brighton Beach Memoirs<p> In Neil Simon's first installment of his darkly funny semiautobiographical Eugene Trilogy, we meet his family in 1930's Brooklyn. Performed by: Max Casella, Peter Michael Goetz, Valerie Harper, Alexana Lambros, Anna Sophie Loewenberg, Jonathan<p> Silverman and Joyce Van Patten. <p> Bilo