Neil Simon's The Prisoner of Second Avenue presented by L.A. Theatre Works

A preview of Neil Simon's The Prisoner of Second Avenue presented by L.A. Thetare Works.

About the play:
Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, and other cast
members performed this play for the L.A. Theatre
Works audience shortly after a successful revival in
London's West End. The story revolves around Mel and
Edna Edison, trapped by circumstance in an apartment
on Second Avenue, New York City, in 1974. Fast-moving
dialog with nonstop Simon quips and jokes performed
extremely well by two fine actors: who could ask for
more?

Ten essential plays by Neil Simon, one of the world's
most celebrated, translated, and widely performed
playwrights.

Barefoot in the Park
Newlyweds move into a new apartment with no
furniture, the wrong paint, leaking
skylight and wacky neighbors! A classic comedy!
Performed by: Norman Aronovic, Laura Linney, J. Fred
Shiffman, Judy Simmons and Eric Stoltz.

The Odd Couple
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

Plaza Suite
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.

The Prisoner of Second Avenue
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.

California Suite
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.

Chapter Two
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.

Brighton Beach Memoirs
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
Silverman and Joyce Van Patten.

Biloxi Blues
The second hilarious installment of Neil Simon's
autobiographical trilogy follows a naïve Eugene
Jerome through boot camp. Performed by: Justine
Bateman, Rob Benedict, Joshua Biton, John Cabrera,
Matthew Patrick Davis, Steve Rankin, Josh Radnor,
Russell Soder and Darby Stanchfield

Broadway Bound
In the final installment of Neil Simon's trilogy,
Eugene and his brother Stanley pair up to break into
the world of comedy writing. Performed by: Caroline
Aaron, Dan Castellaneta, Kyle Colerider-Krugh, James
Gleason, Alan Mandell, Jonathan Silverman, JoBeth
Williams and Scott Wolf.

Lost in Yonkers
Set in Yonkers, New York in 1942, two boys, aged 13
and 16, must spend one year with their austere and
demanding grandmother. Performed by: Barbara Bain,
Gia Carides, Dan Castellaneta, Ben Diskin, Arye
Gross, Roxanne Hart and Kenneth Schmidt.

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