neil simon

     

Oscar's line:<br />"I'd be immensely grateful to you, Felix, if you didn't clean up just now"

Trivia about neil simon

  • He's the popular multiple Tony Award-winning playwright seen here
  • A 1982 play by this man is set among the Jerome family of Brighton Beach in 1937
  • Marsha Mason starred in his comedy "The Good Doctor", based on stories by Chekhov
  • Mike Nichols directed the original Broadway production of this playwright's "Plaza Suite"
  • Born in 1927, he wrote his first Broadway hit, "Come Blow Your Horn", in 1960
  • Marsha Mason met him after she auditioned for his play "The Good Doctor" & later married him
  • Matthew Broderick won for "How to Succeed in Business…" & also for "Brighton Beach Memoirs" by this author
  • He won a 1991 Pulitzer for his comedy "Lost in Yonkers"
  • His first Broadway success was 1961's "Come Blow Your Horn"
  • "Brighton Beach Memoirs"
  • This playwright's movies "The Cheap Detective" & "The Goodbye Girl" were adapted as pilots for NBC
  • Discharged from the military in 1946, this "Odd Couple" author worked in the Warner Bros. mailroom
  • This comic playwright tells of his ups & downs in the recent book "Rewrites"
  • In "Brighton Beach Memoirs", this playwright introduced young Brooklynite Eugene Jerome
  • His first musical, "Little Me", premiered in 1962, the year after his first play, "Come Blow Your Horn"
  • He was a writer for "The Garry Moore Show" when he began his first play "Come Blow Your Horn"
  • His "Brighton Beach Memoirs" & "Biloxi Blues" are autobiographical
  • This playwright adapted several Chekhov stories for his play "The Good Doctor" (Hint: Marsha Mason was in it)
  • NYC's Alvin Theatre was renamed in his honor while his hit "Brighton Beach Memoirs" was playing there
  • His ability to imitate the family doctor earned him this playwright the nickname "Doc"
  • The 1961 comedy "Come Blow Your Horn" was his 1st Broadway play
  • This playwright adapted the 1993 musical "The Goodbye Girl" from his own screenplay of the 1977 film
  • Max Prince is the main character in this American playwright's "Laughter on the 23rd Floor"
  • In 1983 a Broadway theater was renamed for this man, the first time a living playwright was so honored
  • This playwright won a Pulitzer in 1991 with "Lost in Yonkers"
  • (Hi, I'm Martin Short.) I won a 1999 Tony for Cy Coleman & this playwright's "Little Me"; I also received a Tony nomination for his "The Goodbye Girl"
  • What a record! Emanuel Azenberg has produced all of this writer's plays since 1972's "The Sunshine Boys"
  • His autobiographical play "Chapter Two" dealt with the death of his first wife, Joan
  • James Caan played a character based on this playwright in the film "Chapter Two"
  • "California Suite"&"Plaza Suite"
  • His lesser-known plays include "Fools", "God's Favorite" & "The Gingerbread Lady"

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