Who wrote the plays 'Biloxi Blues' and The Sunshine Boys'?
"The Sunshine Boys The Sunshine Boys is a play by Neil Simon that was produced on Broadway in 1972 and later adapted for film and television. The play's protagonists are Al Lewis and Willie Clark. Lewis and Clark were once a successful vaudevillian comedy duo known as the Sunshine Boys. During the later years of their 43-year run, animosity between the partners grew to the point where they ceased to speak with each other. Eleven years prior to the events of the play, Al retired from show business, leaving Willie struggling to keep his career afloat. Willie, now an old"
"Eugene trilogy The Eugene Trilogy refers to three plays written by Neil Simon, the ""quasi-autobiographical trilogy"" ""Brighton Beach Memoirs"", ""Biloxi Blues"" and ""Broadway Bound"". The trilogy tells the story of Eugene Jerome from his adolescence in New York City, to his time spent in basic training in Biloxi, Mississippi during World War II, and finally to the beginning of his career as an aspiring comedy writer. The trilogy is a semi-autobiographical account of Neil Simon's own early life and career. In an interview in 1986, Simon said: "" 'Brighton Beach' was going to be another singular play...Again, I still hadn't"
"Tokyo Sunshine Boys The is a Japanese theatrical troupe that was active from 1983 until about 1994. Since it disbanded almost all of its members have continued acting on theatre and in film. The group was originally designed by screenwriter Mitani Kōki, a young writer who at that time had aspirations of becoming a comedian. Although he starred in a number of the troupe's plays, he was primarily the resident playwright (座付作家). The main three actors were Nishimura Masahiko (who went on to win a number of Japanese Academy Awards and the Blue Ribbon award), Aijima Kazuyuki and Kajiwara Zen."
"existence as well as the humorous conflicts one expects. But the seamless merging of laughter, character and emotion that ignited ""Biloxi Blues"" is only intermittently achieved here. There are stretches, especially in Act I, when ""Broadway Bound"" isn't funny or moving but just reportorial and expository, with plot twists and thematic invocations piling up undigested, like the heavier courses at an attenuated Passover seder."" Broadway Bound Broadway Bound is a semi-autobiographical play by Neil Simon. It is the last chapter in his Eugene trilogy, following ""Brighton Beach Memoirs"" and ""Biloxi Blues"". The play is about Eugene and his older brother,"
"ending. The writer and director of most of the plays was Mitani Kōki. He also acted occasionally under the pseudonym of Hitotsubashi Sōtaro. Tokyo Sunshine Boys The is a Japanese theatrical troupe that was active from 1983 until about 1994. Since it disbanded almost all of its members have continued acting on theatre and in film. The group was originally designed by screenwriter Mitani Kōki, a young writer who at that time had aspirations of becoming a comedian. Although he starred in a number of the troupe's plays, he was primarily the resident playwright (座付作家). The main three actors were"
"the same time to standing room only audiences. And while he was by then recognized as one of the country's leading playwrights, his inner drive kept him writing: Simon also drew ""extensively on his own life and experience"" for his stories, with settings typically in working-class New York City neighborhoods, similar to ones in which he grew up. In 1983, he began writing the first of three autobiographical plays, ""Brighton Beach Memoirs"" (1983), ""Biloxi Blues"" (1985) and ""Broadway Bound"" (1986). With them, he received his greatest critical acclaim. After his follow-up play, ""Lost in Yonkers"" (1991), Simon was awarded a"
"was inspired by Smith and Dale who, unlike their theatrical counterparts, were inseparable lifelong friends. The undercurrent of backstage hostility between ""Lewis and Clark"" was inspired by the team of Gallagher and Shean, who were successful professionally but argumentative personally. Other sources say this is based on Weber and Fields. ""The Sunshine Boys"" premiered on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre on December 20, 1972, and transferred to the Shubert Theatre and then the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, closing on April 21, 1974, after 538 performances. Produced by Emanuel Azenberg and directed by Alan Arkin, the original cast featured Sam Levene as Lewis,"
"of cancer. The University holds his papers in its libraries. Arthur Kreutz Arthur R. Kreutz (July 25, 1906 in La Crosse, Wisconsin – March 12, 1991 in Oxford, Mississippi) was an American composer. He composed the ""Paul Bunyan Suite"", the ""Dixie Concerto"", the score to Martha Graham's 1942 ballet ""Land Be Bright"", and ""Symphonic Blues"" (for orchestra) (1947); some of his orchestral pieces were played by the New York Philharmonic, with whom he appeared at times as a guest conductor. Among his other works is a 1954 opera about the University Greys of the University of Mississippi. Kreutz taught from"
"Paul Lazarus Paul Lazarus is an American director, producer and writer of film, television and theatre. He graduated from Dartmouth College, and apprenticed with the Royal Shakespeare Company in England. In the early 90s, he served as the Artistic Director of the historic Pasadena Playhouse. Lazarus has directed over eighty plays and musicals. His play, ""A Tale of Charles Dickens"", co-written with Janet Jones, was produced and recorded for radio by Los Angeles Theater Works in association with the Antaeus Theater Company. Other credits include directing Neil Simon's ""Biloxi Blues"", ""Personals"" (which was written by Marta Kauffman, David Crane, Stephen"
"producer in association with Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre. Sources:Internet Broadway Database; ""The New York Times"" Matthew Broderick was succeeded by Bruce Norris, Zach Galligan, William Ragsdale, and Jonathan Silverman. Jamey Sheridan replaced William Sadler as Sgt. Toomey. Frank Rich wrote: ""Besides being extremely funny, ""Biloxi Blues"" is Mr. Simon's first serious attempt to examine his conscience as an artist and a Jew."" Source: Tony Awards at BroadwayWorld,Playbill A 1988 film adaptation was directed by Mike Nichols. The cast starred Broderick as Eugene, with Christopher Walken (Sgt. Toomey), Matt Mulhern (Wykowski), Corey Parker (Epstein), Markus Flanagan (Selridge), Casey Siemaszko (Carney) and"
"Asian American civil rights, and, together with Sab Shimono, hosted the 2018 podcast Order 9066, which detailed the history of Executive Order 9066 with first-person accounts. Suzuki's haunting studio cover version of ""How High the Moon"" (music by Morgan Lewis and lyrics by Nancy Hamilton) was released on her eponymous debut album in 1958. The cover is featured in the motion picture ""Biloxi Blues"" during the opening credits and in a later dance scene between the characters Eugene Jerome and Daisy (played by Matthew Broderick and Penelope Ann Miller, respectively). Although the recording fits nicely into the dance, it would"
"Brian Cox, John Simm and Shaun Parkes. Blue/Orange Blue/Orange is a play written by English dramatist, Joe Penhall. A sardonically comic piece which touches on race, mental illness, and 21st-century British life, it premiered at the Cottesloe Theatre in April 2000, starring Bill Nighy, Andrew Lincoln and Chiwetel Ejiofor. It went to London's West End in 2001. In 2007, an audio production of the play was released starring Daniel Davis, Teagle F. Bougere and Matt Letscher. In 2008, Plain Clothes Theatre Productions toured the show around the South-West. Venues included the Tobacco Factory, Bristol; and Cheltenham Everyman and the Rondo"
"of the last poems he published, ""Nightsong"" (1983), was featured in the anthology ""Fifty Years of American Poetry"". Louis O. Coxe Louis Osborne Coxe (April 15, 1918 – May 25, 1993) was an American poet, playwright, essayist, and professor who was recognized by the Academy of American Poets for his ""long, powerful, quiet accomplishment, largely unrecognized, in lyric poetry."" He was probably best known for his dramatic adaptation of Herman Melville's ""Billy Budd"", which opened on Broadway in 1951. Born in Manchester, New Hampshire in 1918 but raised in Salem, Massachusetts (where his family had lived since 1640), Coxe was"
"Louis O. Coxe Louis Osborne Coxe (April 15, 1918 – May 25, 1993) was an American poet, playwright, essayist, and professor who was recognized by the Academy of American Poets for his ""long, powerful, quiet accomplishment, largely unrecognized, in lyric poetry."" He was probably best known for his dramatic adaptation of Herman Melville's ""Billy Budd"", which opened on Broadway in 1951. Born in Manchester, New Hampshire in 1918 but raised in Salem, Massachusetts (where his family had lived since 1640), Coxe was educated at St. Paul's School. He graduated from Princeton University in 1940, writing his senior thesis on Edwin"
"Nihonjin""). The success of this play eventually encouraged the production of a movie directed by Nakahara Shun. However, since the play was registered as created by ""Mitani Koki"" as opposed to ""The Sunshine Boys"", the producers took over and held auditions for the cast. Only three of the then 13 Tokyo Sunshine Boys made it onto the cast: Aijima Kazuyuki, Kajiwara Zen, and Kondo Yoshimasa. From that point on, Mitani Kōki as the writer for the Tokyo Sunshine Boys as well as the actors themselves, got flooded with offers to work on other TV dramas, plays and movies. As a"
"Larry Buttrose Larry Philip Buttrose (born 16 December 1952) is an Australian writer, journalist and academic. He is the ghostwriter of the Saroo Brierley memoir ""A Long Way Home"" (adapted for the screen as the major international feature film ""Lion""). He is also the author of the novels ""The Maze of the Muse"" and ""Sweet Sentence"", and the travel books ""The King Neptune Day & Night Club"", and ""Cafe Royale"" (also published as ""The Blue Man""). For the stage he co-wrote the hit musical ""Hot Shoe Shuffle"", as well ""Kurtz"", his stage adaptation of ""Heart of Darkness"", and a stage"
"had not attended the ceremony, especially the other major award winners that night: Paul Scofield, Elizabeth Taylor and Sandy Dennis. Oscar nominations would come Matthau's way again for ""Kotch"" (1971), directed by Lemmon, and ""The Sunshine Boys"" (1975), another adaptation of a Neil Simon stage play, this time about a pair of former vaudeville stars. For the latter role he won a Golden Globe award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy. Broadway hits turned into films continued to cast Matthau in lead roles in ""Hello, Dolly!"" and ""Cactus Flower"" (both 1969); for the latter film, Goldie Hawn received"
"Arthur Kreutz Arthur R. Kreutz (July 25, 1906 in La Crosse, Wisconsin – March 12, 1991 in Oxford, Mississippi) was an American composer. He composed the ""Paul Bunyan Suite"", the ""Dixie Concerto"", the score to Martha Graham's 1942 ballet ""Land Be Bright"", and ""Symphonic Blues"" (for orchestra) (1947); some of his orchestral pieces were played by the New York Philharmonic, with whom he appeared at times as a guest conductor. Among his other works is a 1954 opera about the University Greys of the University of Mississippi. Kreutz taught from 1954 until 1961 at the University of Mississippi; he died"
"thought of a trilogy. But I decided to take Eugene the next step chronologically in my life, which was the army. But even after I wrote 'Biloxi Blues', I still didn't think about a sequel, because if it turned out to be a bomb, why would one want to do a sequel? So I just waited to see what would happen. Well, Biloxi enjoyed enormous success, and I thought of a third part."" ""Brighton Beach Memoirs"" premiered on Broadway on March 22, 1983; ""Biloxi Blues"" premiered on Broadway on March 28, 1985 and ""Broadway Bound"" premiered on Broadway on December"
"Bash: Latter-Day Plays bash: latterday plays is a collection of three dark one-act plays written by Neil LaBute. Each play is an exploration of the complexities of evil in everyday life, and two of the works, ""iphigenia in orem"" and ""medea redux"" have direct Greek influence, specifically that of Euripides. In production, these three short mono-duet dramas are sometimes presented in varying orders and sometimes omitting one or two of the works. In publication, however, the plays are presented in the following order: ""iphigenia in orem"" followed by ""a gaggle of saints"" and concluding with ""medea redux"". The plays premiered"
"The Blues Brothers (film) The Blues Brothers is a 1980 American musical comedy film directed by John Landis. It stars John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as ""Joliet"" Jake and Elwood Blues, characters developed from ""The Blues Brothers"" recurring musical sketch on the NBC variety series ""Saturday Night Live"". The film's screenplay was written by Aykroyd and Landis. It features musical numbers by rhythm and blues (R&B), soul, and blues singers James Brown, Cab Calloway, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, and John Lee Hooker. The film is set in and around Chicago, Illinois, where it was filmed. It features non-musical supporting performances"
"Bruce Norris (playwright) Bruce Norris (born May 16, 1960) is an American actor and playwright associated with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company of Chicago. His play ""Clybourne Park"" won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. After graduating from Northwestern University in 1982 with a degree in theatre, Norris set out to become an actor. He performed at Victory Gardens Theater, the Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre and on Broadway. His Broadway acting credits include David Hirson's ""Wrong Mountain"" (January to February 2000), Wendy Wasserstein's ""An American Daughter"" (April to June 1997), and Neil Simon's ""Biloxi Blues"" (March 1985 to June 1986). During"
"Featured Actor in a Play for his performance as Arnold Epstein. The story begins with 18-year-old Eugene Morris Jerome from Brooklyn, who is drafted into the United States Army during World War II and is sent to Biloxi, Mississippi for basic training. There he meets a diverse assortment of soldiers, including the gentle and intelligent Arnold Epstein, who is the play's central figure. The piece portrays Epstein's struggle for power with middle-aged, hard-drinking platoon leader Sergeant Merwin J. Toomey. In a memorable scene, Epstein manages to force Toomey to perform two hundred push-ups in front of the platoon. ""Biloxi Blues"""
"who is married and has no children. The woman then describes how she murdered her son, without giving the audience any clear motive for the act, but presumably because she knows that it will cause her former teacher pain even though it is clear from her descriptions that she also dearly loves her child. Bash: Latter-Day Plays bash: latterday plays is a collection of three dark one-act plays written by Neil LaBute. Each play is an exploration of the complexities of evil in everyday life, and two of the works, ""iphigenia in orem"" and ""medea redux"" have direct Greek influence,"
"The Sunshine Girl The Sunshine Girl is an Edwardian musical comedy in two acts with a book by Paul A. Rubens and Cecil Raleigh, lyrics and music by Rubens and additional lyrics by Arthur Wimperis. The story involves a working girl who falls in love with the heir to the factor. He is in disguise and wants to be loved for himself, not his position, so he gets his friend to pose as the heir, leading to complications for both men. The musical was first produced by George Edwardes at the Gaiety Theatre in London, opening on February 24, 1912,"
"2005 TV14 16:9 95 minutes UPC 2635927492 <br>Audio: English, French, Spanish; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish Lackawanna Blues Lackawanna Blues is an American play written by Ruben Santiago-Hudson that premiered in 2001. It was later adapted as a television movie that aired in 2005. The play dramatizes the character of the author's primary caregiver when he was growing up in Lackawanna, New York, during the 1950s and 1960s. The play debuted off Broadway April 14, 2001, at the Joseph Papp Theater in New York City. It was directed by Loretta Greco, produced by George C. Wolfe, and the executive producer was"
"Masahiko Nishimura Nishimura was born on December 12, 1960 in Toyama, Toyama, Japan. While he attended Toyo University to study photography he met Kōki Mitani, a script writer for radio and playwright who aspired to be an actor and who turned his attention to the theatre. In 1983, Nishimura, Mitani and others including the actors Zen Kajiwara and Kazuyuki Aijima formed the Tokyo Sunshine Boys, a comedy troupe that grew in popularity over the following ten years. They produced the popular play ""12 Gentle Japanese"", a parody of Reginald Rose's ""12 Angry Men"". When ""12 Gentle Japanese"" was adapted to"
"The Boys from Syracuse The Boys from Syracuse is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, based on William Shakespeare's play, ""The Comedy of Errors"", as adapted by librettist George Abbott. The score includes swing and other contemporary rhythms of the 1930s. The show was the first musical based on a Shakespeare play. ""The Comedy of Errors"" was itself loosely based on a Roman play, ""The Menaechmi, or the Twin Brothers"", by Plautus. The play premiered on Broadway in 1938 and Off-Broadway in 1963, with later productions including a West End run in 1963 and"
"ending to the story. In 1982, the original version was made into a film of the same title. His other important works include ""Si Shi Tong Tang"" (四世同堂, abridged translation The Yellow Storm, directly translated into ""Four Generations under One Roof"" 1944–1950), a novel describing the life of the Chinese people during the Japanese Occupation; His last novel, ""The Drum Singers"" (1952), was first published in English in the United States. ""Teahouse"" is a play in three acts, set in a teahouse called ""Yu Tai"" in Beijing from 1898 until the eve of the 1949 revolution. First published in 1957,"
"Brighton Beach Memoirs Brighton Beach Memoirs is a semi-autobiographical play by Neil Simon, the first chapter in what is known as his Eugene trilogy. It precedes ""Biloxi Blues"" and ""Broadway Bound"". ""Brighton Beach Memoirs"" had a pre-Broadway engagement at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles on December 10, 1982, and following an additional pre-Broadway engagement at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco, the play premiered on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre on March 27, 1983 and transferred to the 46th Street Theatre, where it closed on May 11, 1986 after 1,299 performances and 7 previews. Directed by Gene Saks, the"
"Lackawanna Blues Lackawanna Blues is an American play written by Ruben Santiago-Hudson that premiered in 2001. It was later adapted as a television movie that aired in 2005. The play dramatizes the character of the author's primary caregiver when he was growing up in Lackawanna, New York, during the 1950s and 1960s. The play debuted off Broadway April 14, 2001, at the Joseph Papp Theater in New York City. It was directed by Loretta Greco, produced by George C. Wolfe, and the executive producer was Fran Reiter. Rosemarie Tichler was the artistic producer. The play is a montage of reminiscences,"
"and he was an honorary member of the Walnut Street Theatre's board of trustees. Also in 1983, Simon was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. In 1965, he won the Tony Award for Best Playwright (""The Odd Couple""), and in 1975, a special Tony Award for his overall contribution to American theater. Simon won the 1978 Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay for ""The Goodbye Girl"". For ""Brighton Beach Memoirs"" (1983), he was awarded the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, followed by another Tony Award for Best Play of 1985, ""Biloxi Blues"". In 1991 he"
"The Brothers (Shirley play) The Brothers is a Caroline era stage play, a comedy written by James Shirley. First published in 1653, ""The Brothers"" has sometimes been hailed as one of Shirley's best plays, though it has also been a focus of significant confusion and scholarly debate. ""There is much uncertainty about this play"" — though much of this uncertainty seems unnecessary, given the historical facts. ""The Brothers"" was licensed for performance by Sir Henry Herbert, the Master of the Revels, on 4 November 1626. The title page of the first edition indicates that the play was acted by the"