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The Collected Plays of Neil Simon Paperback - 1986

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

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

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This first volume of The Collected Plays of Neil Simon contains the triumphs that put his unique 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 Simon's mixture 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.

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  • Title The Collected Plays of Neil Simon
  • Author Neil Simon
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 672
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1986-11-01
  • Features Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780452258709 / 0452258707
  • Weight 1.76 lbs (0.80 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.06 x 1.72 in (22.86 x 15.39 x 4.37 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Topical: Family
  • Category Plays / Drama
  • Library of Congress subjects American drama, Drama
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 86012639
  • Dewey Decimal Code 812.54

About the author

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.

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