Brighton Beach Memoirs

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Full Length, Comic Drama / 3m, 4f / Comb. Ints/Ext. Here is part one of Neil Simon’s autobiographical trilogy: a portrait of the author 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 creator, is the narrator and central character. Dreaming of baseball and girls, Eugene should cope with the mundane existence of his family life in Brooklyn: formidable mother, overworked father, and his worldly older brother Stanley. Throw into the mix his widowed Aunt Blanche, her two young (but hastily aging) daughters and Grandpa the Socialist and you’ve got a recipe for hilarity, served up Simon-style. This bittersweet memoir evocatively captures the life of a struggling Jewish household where, as his father states “if you did not have a problem, you would not be living here.” “Brings a fresh glow to Broadway…In many respects his funniest, richest and because of this the most affecting of his plays.”-New York Daily News “Concurrently poignant and funny. The characters are fully dimensional, believable… An outstanding show…the most efficient seen on Broadway in too long a time.”-Variety “Hilarious comedy…His finest play…A delightful and enriching experience.”-CBS-TV

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