Neil Simon
Neil SimonBroadway bound

Broadway bound

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Broadway bound

Neil Simon continues the semiautobiographical trilogy begun with Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues. Broadway Bound begins with the efforts of Eugene Jerome and his older brother to launch a career as a comedy writing team.

About Neil Simon

Marvin Neil Simon was an American playwright and screenwriter. He wrote more than 30 plays and he received more combined Oscar and Tony nominations than any other writer. He was one of the most reliable hitmakers in Broadway history, as well as one of the most performed playwrights in the world. Though primarily a comic writer, some of his plays, particularly the Eugene Trilogy and The Sunshine Boys, reflect on the twentieth century Jewish-American experience..

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With 1986's BROADWAY BOUND, Neil Simon brought to completion the semi-autobiographical trilogy he began with BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS (1983) and continued with BILOXI BLUES (1985). For those coming to BROADWAY BOUND never having read or seen the two preceding plays, a bit of context is needed.
"Broadway Bound" marks the end of Simon's trilogy, and it's very dark and sad - not how I had hoped the trilogy would end. I found the characters different, but of course, you can say they matured, but Stanley was much more frantic than I remembered him to be.

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